Gas to groceries: Has Trump kept his promise to tackle rising prices?
President Trump promised to bring down inflation. One year on from his victory, BBC Verify revisits some of his claims.
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From gas to groceries, has Trump kept his promise to tackle rising prices?
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The straight answer is NO!!
Trump is a LIAR!!
Trump is a LIAR!!
Is trump still gaslighting the country and saying there is no inflation?
You could try reading the article...Just sayin.The straight answer is NO!!
Trump is a LIAR!!
Did you? What did the article tell you besides Eggs, butter and margarine being down? What about Cars, electricity, anything needing lumber etc....GO ahead, fill us in.
AI summary below:
1 Year In: Trump’s Price Promises vs Reality
Groceries
Electricity
Cars
Gas
Bottom line: Prices mostly rose, not fell — far from the “Day One” cuts promised.
1 Year In: Trump’s Price Promises vs Reality Groceries
Prices up 2.7% overall- Coffee 18.9%, beef 12.9%
- Tariffs + farm labor shortages = higher costs
- Some drops: eggs
, butter
Electricity- Promised: halve prices
- Reality: from 15.9¢ → 17.6¢/kWh
Cars- Promised: “Prices down.”
- Reality: over $50,000 (record high)
- Tariffs = inflationary
Gas- Promised: <$2/gal
- Reality: ~$3.00
Bottom line: Prices mostly rose, not fell — far from the “Day One” cuts promised.
Just admit you didn't read the article...Just admit it..You went ahead and posted first right?I think that he misplaced his reading glasses!!
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Its clear you didn't read it.
It shows trump has failed.
What you can really count on from the lying SCUM in the Whitehouse is to not deliver on any promise to make life better for the average American.Gas to groceries: Has Trump kept his promise to tackle rising prices?
President Trump promised to bring down inflation. One year on from his victory, BBC Verify revisits some of his claims.
It's pretty clear that he read it, Ory.
@The Oracle based on the title of this thread
From gas to groceries, has Trump kept his promise to tackle rising prices?
So share with me and others, in your opinion, after thoroughly reading the article you posted, has Trump kept his promise
From gas to groceries, has Trump kept his promise to tackle rising prices?
So share with me and others, in your opinion, after thoroughly reading the article you posted, has Trump kept his promise
So Ory. Let's read through this together:
Groceries
"When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One," Trump declared at an August 2024 news conference surrounded by packaged foods, milk, meats and eggs.
Official data - which includes a four-month period when Biden was still president - shows grocery prices rose by 2.7% in the 12 months to September 2025, with some items seeing significantly sharper increases:
- Coffee: 18.9%
- Ground beef (minced beef): 12.9%
- Bananas: 6.9%
"The president of the United States has very little control over the price of food, especially in the short term," food economics expert Professor David Ortega told BBC Verify.
Trump's tariffs are driving up prices of certain foods, he said - a third of coffee consumed in the US comes from Brazil and therefore has a 50% tariff.
Trump's illegal immigration crackdown may also have had an impact, Ortega adds, especially in farming where as many as 40% of workers are estimated to be undocumented, which is close to a million people.
"As you know, farmers and companies have to raise wages in order to attract more labour. But trying to quantify those impacts in terms of price increase is almost impossible at the moment."
Diane Swonk, the chief economist for KPMG, believes tariff and immigration policy changes have contributed to higher costs.
"There's no question that those shifts are now starting to show up as inflation pressures," she said.
But she adds that other factors, including weather events, have contributed.
"On coffee you had climate issues for a very bad growing season and that was exacerbated by a tariff on Brazil and also Colombia," she said.
AKA Oreo, Oryandus, Orito and Orambididdle.Who's Ory?
All this Ory talk is giving me cravings for Oreo Cookies DAMMIT!!!!AKA Oreo, Oryandus, Orito and Orambididdle.
Besides, trump is busy fulfilling his promise to send money to Argentina and then invade Venezuela for the drugs oil.
Its very america first.
Its very america first.
Economist says core Trump claim is 'just nonsense'
President Donald Trump repeatedly claims that he inherited a troubled, dysfunctional economy from his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and quickly turned it around. In fact, the United States enjoyed record-low unemployment during Biden's presidency, but widespread frustration over inflation helped Trump pull off a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent on Election Night 2024.
Economist Justin Wolfers, who teaches at the University of Michigan but is originally from Sydney, Australia, tore apart Trump's claims about the economy — from tariffs to the stock market — during a Saturday, November 29 appearance on MS NOW's "The Weekend."
Trump claimed that his tariffs will bring in so much revenue that the U.S. will be able to "almost completely" eliminate federal income tax.
But Wolfers told "The Weekend" hosts Eugene Daniels, Jackie Alemany and Jonathan Capehart, "This is just nonsense. Let me start with one important fact-check. The president appears not to understand the difference between millions, billions, and trillions. That's actually one of the most important points in all of economics; they're massively different. We are not taking in trillions of dollars in tariff revenue."
Wolfers added, "If we were, we could afford his $2000 tariff checks. We aren't. So therefore, we can't."
The University of Michigan economist also pushed back against Trump's claims about the stock market, which, he stressed, is performing better in other countries than it is in the United States.
Wolfers told Daniels, Alemany and Capehart, "The other thing that he talks about a lot is the stock market. Now, here's a funny thing: If you look at the stock market returns from, say, 25 of the biggest countries around the world, the United States ranks around about 22nd right now. So yes, American stocks are up. But guess what? They're up even more everywhere else."
U.S. consumers, according to Wolfers, are pessimistic — not optimistic — about the state of the economy.
Wolfers told Daniels, Alemany and Capehart, "So, consumer confidence right now — it's quite striking just how bad it is. So, consumer confidence right now is very close to being an all-time low. And this has been measured back to the 1970s. So consumers say that they're feeling worse than they were during the Great Recession, than they were during the pandemic, than they were during the early '80s recession. It's really quite striking numbers. If you dig into that a little bit, you ask them things like: What do you think about the quality of us economic policy?"
The economist continued, "The number of people who think that the quality of economic policy is poor is at an all-time high. It's roughly three-fifths of the American people. What you have, I think, is that the president has fundamentally lost the battle of ideas. What you normally do with an economic program is you come up with some ideas, and you try and convince people of the virtues of them. And he has fundamentally failed. There's a deep question as to how long people are going to keep spending."
President Donald Trump repeatedly claims that he inherited a troubled, dysfunctional economy from his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and quickly turned it around. In fact, the United States enjoyed record-low unemployment during Biden's presidency, but widespread frustration over inflation helped Trump pull off a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent on Election Night 2024.
Economist Justin Wolfers, who teaches at the University of Michigan but is originally from Sydney, Australia, tore apart Trump's claims about the economy — from tariffs to the stock market — during a Saturday, November 29 appearance on MS NOW's "The Weekend."
Trump claimed that his tariffs will bring in so much revenue that the U.S. will be able to "almost completely" eliminate federal income tax.
But Wolfers told "The Weekend" hosts Eugene Daniels, Jackie Alemany and Jonathan Capehart, "This is just nonsense. Let me start with one important fact-check. The president appears not to understand the difference between millions, billions, and trillions. That's actually one of the most important points in all of economics; they're massively different. We are not taking in trillions of dollars in tariff revenue."
Wolfers added, "If we were, we could afford his $2000 tariff checks. We aren't. So therefore, we can't."
The University of Michigan economist also pushed back against Trump's claims about the stock market, which, he stressed, is performing better in other countries than it is in the United States.
Wolfers told Daniels, Alemany and Capehart, "The other thing that he talks about a lot is the stock market. Now, here's a funny thing: If you look at the stock market returns from, say, 25 of the biggest countries around the world, the United States ranks around about 22nd right now. So yes, American stocks are up. But guess what? They're up even more everywhere else."
U.S. consumers, according to Wolfers, are pessimistic — not optimistic — about the state of the economy.
Wolfers told Daniels, Alemany and Capehart, "So, consumer confidence right now — it's quite striking just how bad it is. So, consumer confidence right now is very close to being an all-time low. And this has been measured back to the 1970s. So consumers say that they're feeling worse than they were during the Great Recession, than they were during the pandemic, than they were during the early '80s recession. It's really quite striking numbers. If you dig into that a little bit, you ask them things like: What do you think about the quality of us economic policy?"
The economist continued, "The number of people who think that the quality of economic policy is poor is at an all-time high. It's roughly three-fifths of the American people. What you have, I think, is that the president has fundamentally lost the battle of ideas. What you normally do with an economic program is you come up with some ideas, and you try and convince people of the virtues of them. And he has fundamentally failed. There's a deep question as to how long people are going to keep spending."
Anyone who actually thinks that Trump is doing a good job on the economy is either a total idiot or a certified MAGA [ make America garbage again ] cult member. Unfortunately most of the people who support TRUMP are low to middle income Americans who he is doing ZERO for [ but they are too stupid to realize that] or people on the take. The world is truly an amazing place , especially in the not so great and rapidly sinking USA .
