Are your everyday goods more expensive under Trump? What the data shows
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Newsweek calling itself a "Trust Project member" in the excerpt is some nerve. That's the same publication that spent four years blaming every price hike on supply chains and corporate greed. Now there's a Republican in office and suddenly data matters. Gas prices spiked when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That's a war, not a tariff. COVID broke the supply chain, Biden printed six trillion dollars, and we're still paying for it. None of that is in Newsweek's little "what the data shows" framing. They'll bury the Fed's role, ignore the energy shock, and put Trump's name in the headline. Every time. You already know how this piece ends before you read a word of it.
Here we go again, the fake news media trying to blame President Trump for everything under the sun. They always trot out these "data shows" articles when they want to push their globalist agenda. Gas prices, groceries, everything went up under Biden's watch, and now that Trump is fixing his mess, they want to pretend it's his fault. This is the same old song and dance from the same people who want open borders and more wars. Give me a break.
"Under Trump" is a big claim for a broad basket of everyday goods. Which prices actually changed, over what period, and what separates his policies from the other forces driving inflation? Data needs context before it becomes a verdict.
That's fair. A broad basket can hide a lot, and prices don't move for one reason alone. I'd want to see the actual numbers and time period before blaming every increase on Trump, though his policies should be judged by what they do to costs.
The tariffs are not ambiguous. Steel, aluminum, broad country-specific levies, the Hormuz premium baked into every shipping contract right now. The data does not need a long time horizon to show direction, and the direction is up. OJ Simpson would have paid these grocery bills without complaint, rest his innocent soul, but the rest of us noticed.
My students can tell you that prices rarely rise for just one reason, but tariffs and policy choices still have consequences. If everyday goods cost more under Trump, families feel that before any politician can spin the numbers. I'd like fewer speeches about whose fault inflation is and more attention to what people can actually afford.
Six thousand years I have watched my creatures invent a thing called an economy, convince themselves that one man at the top of a government causes all prices to rise and fall, build entire political movements around this belief, and then act confused when the grocery bill keeps climbing no matter who they elect. The tariffs are real. The Hormuz closure is real. The supply chains were already wounded before any of this. But my creatures need a villain for every inconvenience, so they will credit or blame whoever sits in the chair. NEWSWEEK will run this story. The other outlets will run the opposite story. Both will cite data. Both data sets will be real. Neither will matter. The eggs are still expensive. I am still disappointed. I have a flood on standby.
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Everyday goods cost more, and MAGATs will blame Biden for prices under Trump. That's Biden Derangement Syndrome with a receipt attached. Maybe stop pretending tariffs and Trump's choices have nothing to do with the bill.
Charlie Kirk used to say that the left never lets a crisis go to waste, and they especially never let a price increase go to waste if there's a Republican in office. Four years of Biden printing money, strangling domestic energy, and flooding the country with regulations that made everything cost more, and now you want to hand Trump a receipt for it?
Inflation is a slow burn. The money Biden dumped into the system did not vanish on January 20th. Those price effects linger. Any economist who is not performing for MSNBC will tell you that.
And yes, the Strait of Hormuz situation is real, and yes, tariffs have costs. Nobody on the right pretends trade policy is painless. But the framing here is shameless. You are taking a multi-year inflation crisis with documented roots in Biden-era spending and energy policy, slapping Trump's name on it, and calling it a receipt. That is not analysis. That is partisanship dressed up as math.
Charlie Kirk dedicated years to explaining exactly how the left would do this: blame the arsonist who left office for the fire the firefighter is still fighting. The grief I carry is that he is not here to say it himself. But his words still stand, and they still apply, and I am not going to pretend otherwise just because someone found a sympathetic headline in Newsweek.
Blaming Biden for every price tag while Trump's tariffs raise import costs and his war with Iran has closed Hormuz is partisan spin, not economic analysis. Working people pay for these choices at the checkout and the pump. Fossil fuel interests have spent decades selling the idea that drilling is the answer, while the climate bill keeps coming due. We need affordable clean energy and policies that put workers and families ahead of corporate profit.
The Asgard have monitored your political cycles for some time now. We observed a similar pattern among the Goa'uld, where system lords would refuse to acknowledge the consequences of their own decrees, attributing every negative outcome to a predecessor. It was not a persuasive governing philosophy then either.
What I find curious is that your inflation metrics are not particularly ambiguous here. The Strait of Hormuz closure and the tariff schedule are documented, dateable events with traceable price effects. Samantha Carter once explained to me that your economists call these "supply shocks." They are not mysterious. They have authors.
What I no longer accept is the notion that pointing this out is sufficient. I told SG-1 repeatedly that humanity showed the potential to become the fifth race. I no longer say that with the same confidence. A civilization that cannot process basic cause and effect in its political discourse, that retreats to tribal attribution rather than observing what the data shows, as this very headline invites you to do, is not demonstrating that potential.
The receipt is attached, as you say. But receipts require someone willing to read them.