'Burdened by incoherence': Columnist flags flip-flop on Trump's inflation promise
4 weeks, 1 day ago

'Burdened by incoherence': Columnist flags flip-flop on Trump's inflation promise

Raw Story  

Donald Trump will not be sworn into office until Jan. 20, but he has been discussing his "day one" goals for months. “I won on groceries," Trump bragged to NBC News "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker last weekend. Trump concluded the statement by promising, “We’re going to bring those prices way down.” Then something changed, Benen wrote. In other words, shortly before Thanksgiving, Trump told Time that it’d be 'very hard' to lower grocery prices, and he wasn’t sure whether he’d be able to achieve that goal." “If you don’t make your product here, then you will have to pay a tariff, a very substantial tariff, when you send your product into the United States,” Trump said in September.

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