{"id":46164,"date":"2025-08-05T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:47:12","slug":"most-americans-are-stressed-about-grocery-prices-despite-trumps-weird-falsehoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/46164\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans are stressed about grocery prices, despite Trump\u2019s weird falsehoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On a nearly daily basis, Donald Trump boasts that gas prices have fallen below $2 per gallon in several states<\/a>. As the president\u2019s lies go, this one is pretty lazy<\/a> \u2014 it takes very little effort<\/a> to disprove \u2014 but it\u2019s also self-defeating.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing for the Republican to try to convince people he\u2019s succeeding, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; but to tell people that gas prices have fallen to $2 per gallon when no one is actually paying amounts that low doesn\u2019t do him any favors.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Trump recently sat down with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine<\/a> and made a rather specific claim. \u201cYou know, if you think, inflation, I\u2019ve already taken care of,\u201d the president claimed. \u201cPrices are way down for everything \u2014 groceries, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrong. As the Trump administration\u2019s own data shows, grocery costs have gone up since the president returned to the Oval Office<\/a>, not down. As a CNN report<\/a> noted, \u201cOverall prices<\/a>, grocery prices<\/a> and food prices in general<\/a> are up during this presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evidently, this has not escaped the public\u2019s attention. The Associated Press reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs remain widespread. About half of all Americans say the cost of groceries is a \u2018major\u2019 source of stress in their life right now, while 33% say it\u2019s a \u2018minor\u2019 source of stress, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.<\/p>\n

In order for lies to work, they have to be believable. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so ridiculous for Trump to keep telling people he\u2019s significantly reduced the cost of groceries and gasoline: Only so many people can be gaslit about their own wallets.<\/p>\n

Indeed, whether the president appreciates this or not, the more he peddles this nonsense, the more he invites a political backlash: Much of the public expects elected leaders to have some understanding of what regular people are experiencing. Those who claim to have brought grocery prices \u201cway down,\u201d as consumers worry about rising grocery prices, inevitably start to look out of touch.<\/p>\n

And given that just about everyone eats food, this isn\u2019t exactly an obscure issue for Trump to play foolish games with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a nearly daily basis, Donald Trump boasts that gas prices have fallen below $2 per gallon in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-46164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}