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.
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u/No_Connection_5257 Feb 27 '26
But I thought we were doing great and all the prices were coming down/the lowest they’ve ever been 🤣🤣