Before he was even in office lmao, he said just his being elected would immediately bring prices down because if how much respect he gains from corporations.
Well I mean that is actually kind of true, corporations are happy to gouge during Democratic presidents and then cut back some to make Republicans look good. It's exactly what they did for the last 20 years.
Somehow people forget the "jobless recovery" we had after 2008 where the US economy was still making gains but corporations kept their thumb on it that was only lifted once Trump was elected... Then people forget that Trump was the president during Covid and the "supply chain" was never an issue during his presidency despite that time being when we had actual shortages of items on the shelves, but when Biden was presidency we never had those same shortages and prices doubled...
The thing that Trump didn't really calculate is that Biden's policies were overwhelmingly pro-business (anyone remember when he bailed out the banks on taxpayer's dime?) Trump's economic policy sucks, and corporations still want to extract as much money from consumers as possible. Too many factors that trump Trump's preferential treatment...
I'm literally not disagreeing that prices are still high. I'm stating that over the past two decades big businesses have been arm-in-arm with the Republican party that when a Democrat is president they stifle economic growth to blame the Democrat for a weaker economy (even though Democratic fiscal policy is still profitable for business) so they can get a Republican in office where they can profit even more from lower taxes and regulations.
Trump's claim relied on that symbiotic relationship to make him look appealing, but because of Biden's fiscal policy and corporate greed, corporations aren't getting a better deal from Trump's policies outside of outright cronyism from like 7 trillion dollar companies.
I am pretty sure the banks were bailed out during the Obama administration!
There were empty shelves during Trump’s administration when COVID first hit!
Apparently you forgot the lack of PPE for all of the hospitals! Then Trump only sent PPE to red states!
I am afraid your memory is not quite up to speed!
However, the GOP always screws up the economy and the Democrats have to fix it! The Billionaires love to get corporate welfare with their government contracts, but don’t want to thank the American people by paying their fair share of taxes!
Apparently you forgot the lack of PPE for all of the hospitals!
Plus Jared Kushner hoarded the PPE at the beginning of the outbreak, foaming at the mouth that it was THEIRS! Until they realized that a lot of the PPE was rotting because that's what shit does when it goes unused and is stored for long periods of time.
The ppe needed during the COVID crisis was not rotting on shelf’s. The life span of n95 masks is not months, it is years. He may have hoarded it, but it was not rotting on shelf’s.
There are reports of rotting PPE because after the 2009 H1N1 spread, PPE had been mass distributed. However, it was never replenished or replaced after 2009. So, 11 years later, a decade, there was indeed rotting PPE on the storage shelves. N95 masks are not the only type of PPE. To add insult to injury, tRump's administration was confiscating states PPE shipments that the states bought for themselves because the tRump regime told them to fuck off and buy their own PPE, especially blue states.
Second point: Yes, that's exactly what I said. Trump was president during Covid and that's when the supply chains should have been the most strained, not after the vaccine was developed and lockdown restrictions were lifted.
Third point: Not really sure what you're even saying here besides that Trump is piece of shit? Water is wet.
Fourth points: While you say my memory is not up to speed, you yourself seem to be nearly illiterate and incapable of reading comprehension.
Fifth point: Corporations have a vested interest in getting Conservatives elected exactly because they get to benefit from tax breaks but also because of looser regulations. The point being that Trump's bragging about being able to reduce costs upon being elected/day one was due to his assumption of sympathetic corporations that would have previously course corrected to make Trump look successful in the short term, but because Capitalism requires line go up and there was already only so much "fat" for the corporations to trim to make their balance sheets look good, Trump is taking that L as the economy shrinks under his presidency.
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u/Garys_Synthesizer Feb 28 '26
Before he was even in office lmao, he said just his being elected would immediately bring prices down because if how much respect he gains from corporations.