Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to Hear About “Affordability” Anymore – The president has given up pretending to care about the skyrocketing cost of living.
Source: Quirkie
Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to Hear About “Affordability” Anymore – The president has given up pretending to care about the skyrocketing cost of living.
Source: Quirkie
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I also would like to stop hearing about Affordibility, but because we solved the problem and not because we continue to ignore it.
Aw, too many syllables for ya, big guy?
He says this to the people who are increasingly unable to afford to live.
Did he ever care about making anything cheaper? So far there is no evidence (by his actions) to suggest that he did.
That soundbite is going to be played over and over and over again for the next year.
I know Trump has never cared to consider how awful some of his quotes sound in the context of a campaign ad, but I promise you every GOP congressional campaign manager just winced hearing the phrase “I don’t want to hear about ‘affordability’ anymore”.
Turns out, owning a lib is pretty expensive.
If you’re unwilling to carry out the duties of the President of the United States of America, then resign. Instead, you act like a kindergartener.
Yeah, okay great. Release the Epstein Files already.
He could pound his chest like a big dumb hero if he made an announcement out of releasing SNAP funds and subsidizing food. It’s not his money, what does he care?
Instead…
He truly is the “let them eat cake” president
Hahaha…but we gotta agree..this guy fooled people on affordability in the last election and people bought his lies.
Not even a year in folks. That’s how long it takes for these people to lose interest in pretending to care.
He doesn’t want to hear about reality. Also, dude is looking pale and week.
I guess if you have 10,000 times as much you need for basic survival, inflation isn’t really a concern.
He’s a fucking sociopath. He doesn’t care about anyone other than himself and the only way he knows he should care is when or if someone tells him. If anyone that voted for him thinks I’m wrong just watch the video from the oval office when a man collapsed on the floor and people went to help while he just stood there not helping or doing anything. At one point he even turned his head the other way as if to say hurry up and die, you’re ruining my press conference
He has made hundreds of millions of dollars off the presidency, why does he care? He doesn’t and anyone who thinks this idiot is working for them is an effing moron.
Here’s what I am convinced of at this point. The people in Trump’s ear – Miller, Wiles, Scavino, Blair, Cheung – tell him what he wants to hear, and he believes it. Trump is not lying when he says he’s doing great in the polls. He’s being told that’s true and thinks the media is lying when they present a different narrative. Same thing with the economy. Affordability has been solved as that’s what Trump is being told. And control of the narrative presented to Trump is a high priority as cabinet members are not permitted to counter the narrative.
I see Trump as the needed figure-head as he is the one who could win a vote. Governing is a different thing and his regime controls what he believes, thus directing his focus to their priorities. He’s a manipulable fool. OK. But he honestly thinks he’s right. The problem here is he goes off script and lacks focus, which makes that control a challenge.
Trump isn’t lying. He’s not some mastermind trying to re-frame our understanding. He’s not burying his hand in the sand. He’s being a good boy for his handlers.
“Are you still talking about that Epstein guy?”
“Are you still talking about being able to eat?”
Since Trump fired Erika McEntarfer for publishing statistics that he did not like, he has also made noises about other statistics that are also published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And he has appointed interim people who will bend to his wish.
As a result, I do not trust any statistic that is published by the Federal government.
He wants the inflation numbers to be low. So the inflation numbers are low. At least, lower than reality. But even the faked numbers are still too high.
He can afford whatever he wants.
Hint: he never cared. He just wanted the votes.
I didn’t wanna hear about him anymore but here we are
> It’s truly a travesty that this man who campaigned on affordability, and on remembering the forgotten working class, is now telling those very same people to shut up and be happy while outright lying about the state of affordability in this country. It was already bad, and Trump has unquestionably made it worse. But he’d rather lie and finger-point than admit that and work to fix it.
This is an interesting paragraph to me because it almost makes it seem like the writer of the article believed Trump when he was campaigning on affordability and “remembering the forgotten working class.” At no point in Trump’s entire life—let alone during his time in politics—has he ever been for the working man, nor has he ever given even the slightest shit about the economic conditions of people other than himself and his rich friends.
Anyone who voted for an ultra-rich celebrity businessman because they thought he would be “for the working man” has got to be, quite frankly, a giant fucking idiot.
Are you still talking about AFFORDABILITY? This has been talked about for years! We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and people are still talking about this thing? That is unbelievable! I can’t believe you’re asking about affordability at a time like this. We’re having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas
“Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money. Separately each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects. place before the eyes of such men a post of honour that shall at the same time be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it.”
“And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable pre-eminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your Government and be your rulers.”
– Benjamin Franklin – Constitution Convention – June 2nd 1787
This reeks of “less cases if we stop testing”
I don’t know how to hear anymore about affordability!
Mad King Donnie is running a patronage court. If you an give him tribute then you can win his favor. Us peasants are shit out of luck.
He’s more of a “how gold can we make the toilet” man. A real big picture idea guy.
>“You know, I call the Democrats conmen and women, they make up numbers.
Remember when Trump said his net worth varies on his mood? Yeah, that’s making up numbers.
>We’re getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline. With Biden it was $4.50, $5. Another thing, inflation. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country.
Fair, though POTUS has little to do with the price of fuel. Though with that inflation it’s less likely people will go drive places to do things. An then he immediately lied about inflation being down.
Getting real strong “let them eat cake” vibes from the white house these days.
Being a good president requires empathy. He has zero.
Jesus, he really is becoming the cliched version of Marie Antoinette. Failing to address the financial issues of the country, cozying up to our enemies, and ignoring what matters to average Americans.
He still thinks “groceries” is an archaic word.
The man couldn’t be more out of touch with America if he tried.
Fine. Let’s go back to talking about the Epstein files.
Oh, don’t want to hear about those either, eh?
Guess we can only ask him about his ballroom.
The Walmart CEO put out that the 2025
Thanksgiving meal was $4 a person compared to $7 for the 2024 meal. But it was just a marketing gimmick. Walmart put 15 items in the meal instead of 29. They split the meal 10 ways instead of 8, so portions were 20% smaller.
When adjusted for these changes, the meal is up 3.9% compared to 2.7% increase in the CPI food at home index for the 12 months ended September 2025. Trump latched onto the lower prices and promoted them. America needs a smart President who knows what’s going on, not one who falls for Walmart’s marketing gimmicks.
How can Trump negotiate with China, Canada and the EU if he doesn’t get what Walmart did with the content and portion sizes of the meal?
Mamdani has made the point.
We as a country choose a skyrocketing cost of living. Its something we are doing on purpose. We can pay for tax cuts for the rich, or we can tax them and provide social services.
If we want to bring down the cost of living, then tax the rich and provide social services. We can make that choice.
Surprise!
The worst joke is so many Americans thought a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth and who has never bought his own groceries in his life would actually care about affordability.
Dude campaigns on high costs of everything and how he’ll fix it day one.
Now publicly states he DGAF about costs (as all of us with half a brain were totally aware).
Congrats, MAGA. May your suffering at the hands of your own stupidity continue.
For years the wealthy Conservatives have been saying nobody wants to live in a socialist country, because that means the common people starving in poverty while the rich elite live in golden palaces and complete luxury.
So it seems they were really talking about Capitalism all along, or at least the sort of Capitalism they wanted and are now implementing as fast as they can.
Projection. Always projection.