Trump Touts Supposedly “Cheaper” Drugs, Beef and Gas Prices in Truth Social Post

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-touts-supposedly-cheaper-drugs-beef-and-gas-prices-in-truth-social-post/

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration is successfully addressing the affordability crisis, despite complaining last month that the term “affordability” had been invented by the media to smear him. Trump’s post — which borrowed a headline from an article on a right-wing website, which he provided the link to — claimed that prices were…

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dregan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 6d

Gas is $0.20 higher in my area now than when I last filled up about a month ago.

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 6d

"beef"

Big_Boss_77@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5d

He didn't mean "cheap" as in lower cost...he meant lower quality...

Gas = more ethanol, less unleaded

Beef = wild horse/south american pink slime

Groceries = total spent is down since most things you'd buy will make you shit yourself to death.

Drugs = imported directly from the most questionable manufacturers using the most questionable ingredients

All of this to maximize that sweet, sweet profit margin.

Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 5d

Even if prices do come down, so what. It'll probably still be more expensive then when he started fucking everything up.

ChetManly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5d

Interesting social experiment on how hard magats can be gaslit and still go back for more sloppy seconds out of Trump's diaper.

tehWrapper@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d

So it is already known the cheap "Freedom Fuel" was stolen. The cheap beef comes from questionable sources (if it is actually beef). How he will make other products cheap remains to be seen.

danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d

Funny that he's bragging about beef prices shortly after he fucked over the American beef industry with foreign beef imports. The exact thing he's supposedly against