Affordability Fact Check: Trump Can’t Hide From Higher Prices
“Just after one year of President Trump, our economy is booming. Incomes are rising. Investment is soaring. Inflation has been defeated.”
That verdict was proclaimed by the highest authority in the land — President Trump himself, notifying an Iowa audience Tuesday about the transcendent blessings of his reign. . .
Yet on Nov. 29, Trump proclaimed on Truth Social: “I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT.” Six weeks later, he sneered in Detroit that affordability is a “fake word by Democrats.” . . .
Natural-gas prices rose 56% last year. Energy costs in general have risen almost 6% since Trump took office. . .
In that same 2024 campaign speech, Trump promised, “Prices will come down . . . fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”
Auto-insurance prices have jumped 12% since 2024, and homeowner’s insurance rates have jumped 9%. (Read more from “Affordability Fact Check: Trump Can’t Hide From Higher Prices” HERE)
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