President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued the affordability issue is an epic “scam” conjured up by Democrats.
“It’s a con job. I think affordability is the greatest con job,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Tuesday.
It’s a bizarre argument on many levels, especially since Trump is about to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to promote his economic agenda and his continued focus on “ending Joe Biden’s inflation crisis,” a White House official told CNN.
And for Trump, calling affordability a scam is doubly strange because it’s the very issue that helped propel him back to the White House.
Trump successfully tapped into anger over the cost of living in the 2024 election and promised voters he would swiftly bring down prices – even if that was never realistic in the first place.
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