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Trump says grocery prices are down. They're really up. MAGA, you gonna let him play you again?

CaughtInThe said:
He's not misinformed he's playing dumb. It's a strategy.
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I don't believe that to be true. It's well known he hates briefings and detail and he doesn't read reports. At pressers , when asked a question he knows nothing about but should, he will say...."we're working on that" or we'll have answer on that in a couple of weeks" . Sometimes he'll even say " I hadn't heard about that". He does that very, very often.
 
Callen said:
I don't believe that to be true. It's well known he hates briefings and detail and he doesn't read reports. At pressers , when asked a question he knows nothing about but should, he will say...."we're working on that" or we'll have answer on that in a couple of weeks" . Sometimes he'll even say " I hadn't heard about that". He does that very, very often.
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Oh, I was talking about Mike Johnson.
 
Groceries, hmm.......



......that's that word the little people use, right. :unsure:

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Don't worry though, he'll figure out how to have a ball at the expense of us all. :rolleyes:
 
americanwoman said:
I, for one, do formally renounce every and all lies I have ever in my entire life supported.

Now, are grocery prices down?
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You’ve established that you are, by your own admission, free from the burden lies impose on your moral authority. Unless you are lying about the renouncement bit there. But I’ve noticed that coffee prices are up, and gas is down. The bread I like is down, but beef prices are up. Since you claim to speak truth, you tell me if grocery prices are up, down, or the same as they were in the summer of 2024, when the left here claimed that prices the imposed no burden on them. I’ll take your word for it. Or not.
 
The AntiDonald said:
Always with the Whataboutisms, deflections. You refuse to answer the question because it will make Jesus Trump look bad.
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I don’t care how Trump looks. I don’t care what he says. I only care about what he actually does. You guys care about losing political power, and the fact that you lost it to Trump speaks volumes, and by your own admission here every day. Just how bitter is that?
 
TangoNoCash said:
When did he become president again. Is Trump also as sharp as a tack?
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Biden never was truly president. Biden was a functionary only. Nobody has claimed Trump is as sharp as a tack to my knowledge. Trump’s batting average against you guys is .667. That’s not bad, so you probably should be asking yourselves - given your view of him - exactly how bad you must be. My view is that Trump will say damn near anything to piss you guys off. In more serious moments, I think you’ll find that Trump acknowledged early in this term that it would take a year or two before there will be meaningful economic benefits resulting from his policies. I’ll hold him to roughly that time frame, and not the dictates of opposition politics.
 
humbolt said:
Biden never was truly president. Biden was a functionary only. Nobody has claimed Trump is as sharp as a tack to my knowledge. Trump’s batting average against you guys is .667. That’s not bad, so you probably should be asking yourselves - given your view of him - exactly how bad you must be. My view is that Trump will say damn near anything to piss you guys off. In more serious moments, I think you’ll find that Trump acknowledged early in this term that it would take a year or two before there will be meaningful economic benefits resulting from his policies. I’ll hold him to roughly that time frame, and not the dictates of opposition politics.
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You misunderstand and conflate Trump saying things to piss off people and being a pathological liar. You complain about TDS while suffering from full blown BDS. It’s hilarious. A broken clock that’s wrong all the time. Impressive. Trump is a terrible person in every respect and is literally the embodiment of the seven deadly sins. Enjoy the cult.
 
CLAX1911 said:
I got groceries 3 days ago the prices seem to be dropping for me.
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That's interesting because I had the exact same feeling on Monday and a little bit of that feeling the Monday before. While my weekly list did look slightly shorter than usual this week, the price was surprisingly low, even double take low (including a brief mention of that to my husband when he came out to help haul in the bags from the car).

I make a menu and shop once a week, just as I have been doing for nearly my whole life. I cook almost every night because we just prefer eating at home and spending evenings at home. We're both creatures of habit in that way. And unlike when I was younger, I don't try too many new recipes. I have the same 30 or so tried and true dinners that I just keep on repeat mode. So, from week to week and certainly from month to month, my grocery cost stays much the same.

When inflation went really high during the Biden years, there was a big and dramatic change in my grocery shopping cost. Then it's just stayed that way for several years, so now so that's become a norm.

Beef has remained high, and I can't say I've noticed that has changed. But pork chops have been VERY affordable, downright cheap, and I've noticed that for a couple months. One thing which did catch my eye as unusual, even before checking out on Monday, were that Red Bird boneless skinless chicken breasts were BOGO. I don't think I've seen that in years and I buy them every single week. I got four large chicken breasts (two 2-packs) for $7.50 with this sale. We fillet them because each breast is huge and then freeze the 2 fillets. So that's 4 dinners for the two of us, from those 4 large chicken breasts - less than $1.00 per person/per dinner for the protein. Again, it's been many years since that happened. Also, there were a ton of them so it's not like this was some special thing where there weren't very many packs available and people were crowded to grab them. It was just me with a huge selection of BOGO Red Bird chicken breasts.

TMI, but I wanted to give an accurate picture of me as an older lady who is VERY familiar with my weekly grocery shopping and of buying the same basic products week after week. I'll now notice to see if this becomes a trend - but this was a (caught my attention) cheaper shopping trip this week.
 
Politifact article from Sept 5th 2025

Food prices are up, with a few exceptions​

For groceries, we examined standard price data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index. Taken as a whole, the cost of food has risen, but some individual items have fallen in price as others rose.

A measure for groceries, called food at home, rose by a small amount between December 2024 and July 2025 — just under 1%.

Combining food and beverage prices shows a rise of 1.5% during the same period.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also separates price patterns for key types of food. A deeper dive into the grocery cart shows that some of these items became more expensive while others became cheaper.

The price of eggs, an issue Trump spotlighted earlier in the year, has fallen by about 13%, following a bird flu-driven spike.

Bread fell by 3.2%, and fruits and vegetables fell by 0.7%.

But a larger number of items increased in price. Bacon rose by 2.9%. The combined cost of meats, poultry, fish and eggs rose by 2.8%. Coffee prices rose by 11.3%. Dairy and related products rose slightly, by 0.5%. Sugar and sweets rose by 3.7%.

Ground beef saw the biggest increase, rising by 11.6%. Drought and export limits have driven beef prices higher.

These increases are over half a year. If these items’ prices continue to rise at the same rate over a full year, the percentage increase would double.
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TangoNoCash said:
You misunderstand and conflate Trump saying things to piss off people and being a pathological liar. You complain about TDS while suffering from full blown BDS. It’s hilarious. A broken clock that’s wrong all the time. Impressive. Trump is a terrible person in every respect and is literally the embodiment of the seven deadly sins. Enjoy the cult.
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I’m not a huge Trump supporter. I’m interested in implementing policies, and as long as Trump is implementing policies I prefer, I’ll support him to the extent he does those things. The cult bit is a product of the left’s imagination. Again, given your characterizations of Trump, only an extreme ideologue wouldn’t examine why you lost to the guy. I think Trump learned a lot from his first term and his 2020 defeat. You guys, if you’re even modestly thoughtful and introspective, should do the same. Honestly, I could do without Trump’s trolling of the left, but I have to admit that some of the reactions by you guys are entertaining. In fact, Schumer’s shutdown is the first time I’ve noticed any serious action by the left driven by policy, and it’s telling that it places emergency funding for Covid-related funding already set to expire over paying our military.
 
CaughtInThe said:
Up is down. Down is up. Compassion is bad. Evil is good. Lying is truth. Truth is lying.

The US is broken.



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What would Trump know about groceries? He lives on fast food and falsehood.
 
humbolt said:
when you accept responsibility for your party’s lies, you’ll have moral room to point out those of others.
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I am an Independent. Was a Republican for decades.

Is your grocery bill lower now compared to a year ago?
My experience is the grocery bill each month has not come down. It has not gone up much in the last couple of months, but it is not lower than a year ago.

note. try sticking to the topic.
 
americanwoman said:
I actually think Trump has no clue. He's had people shop, cook, and clean up after him his entire life. He has zero idea what it's like for some of us trying to budget every week - and even think you need an ID to buy groceries.

So there is a good explanation for his lie - he is clueless and out of touch.
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Which explains why he gets so indignant when the MSM or even Fox News dares to reveal inconvenient truths...They dare contradict The King!

Donald Trump lives in a warped reality of his own making.
 
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