Trump got elected (by 1.3%) because people took many of these statements literally. Maybe his dedicated base just accepts the fact that his shit ain't true, but that's not what the people that swung the election his way think.
First, consider that while half the voting population voted for Trump it was also a vote against Obama/Biden/Kamala. And, the DNC did itself no favors in how it handled the lead up to the elections (hiding Biden's health, he is running, no he isn't, Kamala you got 3 months to make a run, etc). So, not all the votes were 'for Trump', as a lot were 'against Dems'. And frankly, can anyone say what the Dems promised should they win? They were rudderless, without a message (other than BRAT! and hiring Beyonce and Hollywood to stand up for them) and without a good messenger (Kamala was abysmal, until Walz made her look better in comparison). So yeah, A lot voted FOR Trump, but a lot voted against Democrats.
This is particularly true of grocery prices. And there, at the very least, his promises were immediately abandoned and not used as a starting point.
i haven’t heard a single mention of grocery prices from the administration other than them telling us to stop complaining about it.
I haven’t heard a single Trump supporter complain about grocery or health care costs.
Because it's been 70 days since he took office. I outlined elsewhere in responding to Ali about what Trump can do on day 1, and what he's done. But for real economic impact it takes awhile for policies to be in effect (not challenged in courts) and for things to loosen back up. Also, you're not hearing it from the right because we have other priorities. Biden has us living with the worst inflation in our lifetimes, we've gotten numb to it - doesn't mean we like it, but it isn't the thorn in our side that other priorities are - things like transparency, and equal application of the law (and finding out who/when/why it was applied unfairly), etc. Trump has gone shotgun out of the gate since taking office, going after a fistful of differeing issues daily. Frankly, it has been incredible how wide spread his changes have been, but they've also not been paper thin - they have his staff behind them, working hard to implement the significant changes so many of us wanted. So while we continue to pay more for groceries than we'd like, we have other priorities that need attention first.
Unlike communist price controls (hey there, Kamala!) that dictate price regardless of reality, there are actually a few other factors that need to be considered. For example,
Biden admin killing 100m chickens since 2022 for bird flu. Guess what, less chickens means less eggs; less eggs means the price goes up. In a related story,
Biden shut down domestic oil production. Guess what, more expensive oil means fuel prices rise effecting farming, transport from farms to cities, and where does that extra cost end up? In the price of eggs. Trump's already addressing domestic oil availability, trying to get us back to being energy independent like when he last left office, and in doing so now has a lever on the world's energy prices as opposed to being it's bitch and paying what others ask.
Health care? Again, 70d. What do you believe he could have done by now on that one? Especially when it requires a literal act of congress to change it? He needs to have someone in his cabinet deeply engaged with the right congressional committees, but what we have heard is zilch. Which leads us to believe he has done ... zilch, on that front. But again, we're used to the pain at this point, it's a lower priority.
. But bottom line, we have to learn to exist together or not at all. This means tearing down a lot of the division that has been sown over the past 2 decades and work to rediscover common ground, that our opponents aren't enemies, and we're all in this together.
