Trump brags about soaring prices

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If there's one thing I've got to hand to Trump, is that he's a BULLSHITTER bar none. A master at it, in fact. Which is not to delusionally elevate him to the level of genius in that regard, but rather to acknowledge that there are an astonishingly, ABYSMALLY large number of willfully gullible sorts wholly and willfully susceptible to it. Lending truth to the adage, "there's a fool born..."

And chief among his repertoire of flim--flamery is his narcissistic desire to at least LOOK like he's winning. The almost pathological NEED, to get out ahead of it, even in the midst of abject FAILURE.

Which is why he rationalized the GOP's ass kicking last election by saying stupid s---- like "it was because of the shutdown" (the GOP'S shutdown) and he "wasn't on the ballot." (Newsflash, you WERE, champ.) And why he had to make it sound like the vote to release the Epstein files was his idea (yeah, right), and why he chummed it up with Mamdani (who won DECISIVELY in spite of all Trump's denouncements, his invocations of "communists," his backing of Cuomo, and his threats to defund the city. In fact, Zohran's victory should've been a wake-up call, but I wouldn't bet on it.

So it stands to reason, now that major indicators are painting a picture of a piss-poor economy and a deepening affordability crisis on the horizon, that Trump WOULD make it sound like this was also all a part of the plan:

Trump brags about soaring prices - Dailykos

As Americans clamor for relief from high prices, Trump would rather pressure Hollywood to make movies he likes. And when he does focus on affordability? Well, it’s to brag about how prices are about to go up.

He isn’t warning that prices will rise. He’s bragging about it, celebrating the higher costs as a sign of “record-setting” tariff revenue.

That “unprecedented course” [he boasted of] is one of even higher inflation, because when the cost of business goes up, that increase gets passed to the consumer. His post is especially revealing given Republicans’ insistence that inflationary fears around Trump’s tariffs were exaggerated because inflation softened this year. Trump is now claiming those softer numbers weren’t real—that the true economic hit was merely delayed by inventory hoarding.

It’s a stunning position for [him] to take. At a moment when families are desperate for relief, Trump is openly cheering on the very price hikes people are struggling with.