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President Donald Trump’s launch of a nationwide “affordability tour” this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration’s tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If nothing else, it'll be fun to see MAGA try and balance their cultish devotion to Trump clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)

clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.

Blame immigrants, blame democrats, blame other countries... There will be no clashing.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

don’t you know the tariffs aren’t working because of the ACTIVIST JUDGES?!

don’t you know that CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS are cheating the system?

don’t you know that RADICAL DEMOCRATS are needlessly non-compliant with ICE and THATS why it’s not all sunshine and rainbows?

don’t you know that CANADA is to blame for the lack of tourism?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Trump could literally in broad daylight kick them in the balls while looking at them in the eye ... and MAGA idiots will still blame the democrats for it.

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 24 points 23 hours ago

"Trump HAD to kick me in the balls to get back at the Demoncrats because...."

-Some MAGA moron probably

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago

It was a Biden executive order with an autopen for sure. Trump is a patriot for following the law and kicking me in the balls.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Promise: EVERYTHING

Deliver: NOTHING

Blame: ~~OBAMA~~ BIDEN

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

A few years ago it was "thanks Obama"

[–] molestme247@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Rinse and repeat lmao hey Pedonald frump, hurry up and die you old cunt neck

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Oh, that's easy. It's the immigrants' fault. Or it's Biden's fault. Or it's the Democrats' fault.

When objective truths don't hold any weight whatsoever, blame can be assigned freely without having to perform mental gymnastics to make it make sense.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The same people that hung on to every syllable that came out of Biden's mouth, pounced on the most minor grammatical mistakes, and seemed to have memorized every word the man uttered in his latest speech now suddenly they claim they don't keep up with the news they haven't heard what Trump is saying and they'll look it up later.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Yep. All of them become Mariah Carey when it comes to knowing anything about what Pedonald is up to, include little Mikey Johnson...

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago

They won't blame Trump, its big government working against him that's the problem.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Oh come on. Everyone knows its Venezuela thats been doing these nasty things to mercan patriots with their narcocommunist submarine regimechange programs.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

It's the Antifa with their Obama ACORNs and their Alinsky-style tactics...