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Trump's Brain Is Stuck On The Word Affordability

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July 9, 2026

Narrative Analysis: Plain Folks

During a presser at NATO this morning, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed the word affordability was a hoax, a phony word and that there is no inflation because Democrats made it up. Trump is obsessed with the word and with eggs. Under the Democrats, we had tremendous inflation, record-setting inflation, Trump said. And now inflation is way down. Everything is great. Via Google: U.S. inflation increased to an annual rate of 4.2 in May, up from 3.8 in April, largely driven by a sharp rise in energy prices. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, sits at 2.9 year-over-year, remaining above the Federal Reserve's 2 target. TRUMP: It's affordability. And they came up with the word affordability. I take over. I'm there for one day. And they say affordability, affordability. On Trump's first day the economy was doing fine after Pres. Biden left, and energy costs were much lower. The word affordability started to become a real thing after Trump began levying illegal tariffs against our foreign trade partners. TRUMP: And right now eggs are way down. The prices are way down and they're coming down further. So they made up a phony word that they used. They said affordability. They're the ones that cause the affordability prices. I didn't. read more

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MS NOW

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· Jun 30, 2026

‘It’s a yawn’: Trump just doesn’t care about bipartisan bill to address housing crisis

The president is guided by his obsessions. Helping Americans deal with an affordability crisis just doesn’t capture and keep his attention. The post ‘It’s a yawn’: Trump just doesn’t care about bipartisan bill to address housing crisis appeared first on MS NOW.

Talking Points Memo

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· Jul 1, 2026

Surely a Winning Strategy: Republicans Are Trying to Be as Tone Deaf as Possible on Affordability

‘Affordability? What Are You Talking About?’ It would be difficult to miss President Trump’s remarks this week about what a...

The Hill

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· Jun 23, 2026

Watch live: Trump seeks to sell economic agenda in Pennsylvania

President Trump in remarks from Pennsylvania will have another opportunity to tout his economic agenda ahead of the midterm elections, as affordability continues to be a top issue on the minds of voters. The president over the weekend claimed the U.S. has the “BEST ECONOMY EVER,” citing recent Labor Department data showing better-than-expected job growth...

San Antonio Current

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· Jul 2, 2026

Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls: What affordability crisis? I’m eating lobster

As nearly half of Americans express worry about their personal finances, U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls, a Republican representing a suburb southwest of Houston, instead chose to focus on his own good fortune when approached by a reporter on the steps of Capitol Hill. “Affordability — what are you talking about?” Nehls, who represents Texas District [] The post Texas Republican Rep. Troy Nehls: What affordability crisis? I’m eating lobster appeared first on San Antonio Current.

The Motley Fool

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· Jul 11, 2026

This Overlooked Investment Could Set You Up for Life. Here's How.

Consistency is the one thing investors should focus on.

PBS NewsHour

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· Jul 6, 2026

WATCH LIVE: Trump officially launches Trump Accounts for kids, ringing Wall Street opening bell

With high inflation hurting Trump's popularity, the Republican president has tried to get more Americans to focus on their 401(k) investments, claiming that his policies should get the credit for any gains, particularly as the November midterm elections draw closer.

The Daily Beast

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· Jul 1, 2026

Tone-Deaf MAGA Congressman Makes Wild ‘Lobster’ Brag

NurPhoto / NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMAGA Rep. Troy Nehls brushed off a question about “affordability” by bragging about his expensive July 4 feast.“How do House Republicans make the case that you’re fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts?” reporter Pablo Manríquez of Migrant Insider asked Nehls on Tuesday.“Affordability? What’re you talking about?” the 58-year-old Texas congressman replied. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Iran Herald

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· Jul 3, 2026

Republicans let them eat lobster comment leaves sour taste

Rep.Troy Nehls has claimed that struggling Americans dont work hard enough to afford the delicacies he enjoysRepublican Representative Troy Nehls has been hammered for boasting about eating steaks and lobster tails on the Fourth of July, while his constituents struggle to make ends meet. Nehls added insult to injury by dismissing poor Americans as lazy.As he left Capitol Hill on Tuesday,

Quartz

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· Jul 2, 2026

25 economic principles that explain everyday decisions

From sunk costs to surge pricing, these core ideas from economics explain why you spend, save, procrastinate and choose the way you do

Salon

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· Jun 24, 2026

“He really doesn’t care”: Warren slams Trump’s decision to hold up affordable housing bill

The senator said Donald Trump is stymying affordable housing because he's indifferent to the cost crunch

Mises Institute

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· Jun 24, 2026

Greenspan Was The Perfect Fed Chair. That Is Not a Compliment

The Fed Chair’s job isn’t to stabilize the economy. It’s to use prestige, technical jargon, and mind-numbing dullness to cover for the central bank’s expropriation of the American people. And Alan Greenspan excelled at that.

National Post

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· Jun 25, 2026

Amy Hamm: Remember when Katy Perry’s boyfriend tanked our economy?

Trudeau never looked at Canada the way he looks at her

Save Jersey

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· Jun 23, 2026

Op-Ed: Scheme to Loot Energy Producers, Supercharge Affordability Crisis, Gets Hearing in N.J.

By Doug Kellogg Cross-Posted from ATR.org In the midst of an affordability crisis that has demanded the attention of politicians from the right and left, [...]

Fortune

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· Jun 26, 2026

Shell Foundation CEO: climate tech works. Getting it to a billion people who need it is the hard part

The green transition's real bottleneck isn't invention — it's distribution, cost and finance. After 25 years and 10 billion leveraged, he has a blueprint.

Lawyers, Guns & Money

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· Jun 27, 2026

Why is it so hard to get by on $130,000 per year?

Which is it is: (gift link) President Trump and Congress are neither investing in long-term solutions nor offering short-term relief. If they paid attention to different indicators of Americans’ financial health, beyond top-line growth and other traditional measures of economic success, they might feel more urgency. So we developed one: a model budget for a [] The post Why is it so hard to get by on 130,000 per year? appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

Al Bawaba

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· Jul 1, 2026

Trump made over $1.4 billion in crypto last year

ALBAWABA - The usual Trump policy of passing policies to help things you’re invested in seems to continue paying off as he and his family reported 1...

The Independent

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· Jul 1, 2026

MAGA Rep brags about going to eat steak and lobster - and doesn’t care much that Americans can’t afford it

‘Affordability? What’re you talking about?’ Texas Republican Troy Nehls said

Black America Web

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· Jul 3, 2026

Donald Trump Brought In $2.2 Billion In Revenue, MAGA Voters React BIGLY

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Donald Trump and his family are using the presidency to enrich themselves, but his recent disclosure revealed just how much money he's raking in, and it's not sitting well with his voters.

Business Today

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· Jul 5, 2026

Billionaire's reading list: Zerodha's Nikhil Kamath rates 5 books guiding his life & strategy

For a billionaire deeply rooted in the numbers-driven world of stockbroking, the revelation that human ambition is largely an unconscious attempt to escape mortality shifted his entire perspective.

Digby's Hullabaloo

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· Jul 11, 2026

They Do Have A Legislative Record

And it’s a disaster One year after President Donald Trump signed the law he dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on the South Lawn of the White House, it has begun reshaping the country — altering who gets help from the government and who goes without. The most consequential legislation of Trump’s second term reaches into nearly every corner of American life. It supercharges immigration enforcement, pouring billions into border security and deportations. It rewrites student loan rules. It dismantles tax incentives for electric vehicles and clean energy. It creates a national school-voucher tax credit. And at its core is a seismic shift: extending roughly 4.5 trillion in tax cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations and the wealthy over 10 years while cutting about 1.1 trillion from healthcare and food assistance programs serving poor and working-class people. It ultimately adds a projected 4.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. I’m so tired of winning but he just keeps forcing us. Luckily he insisted on that fatuous name so no one will ever forget whose work it was — along with the sycophants, toadies and henchmen who made it happen.

Korea Times News

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· Jul 5, 2026

Trump's financial gains flow through money landscape

Trump's financial gains flow through money landscape

The i Paper

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· Jun 28, 2026

The best thing I learnt in private school? Never to send my kid to one

Knowing that so many financial resources were put into you is a sure-fire way to make a kid choke and freak out later in life

Investopedia

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· Jun 23, 2026

How Americans Are Making Room in Their Budgets for Higher Prices

How Americans Are Making Room in Their Budgets for Higher Prices

Washington Examiner

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· Jun 24, 2026

What would happen if we balanced the budget?

If our citizens understood the dangers we are facing with our wild, out-of-control spending and the enormous advantages of a balanced or near-balanced budget, we might get support for fiscal sanity in Washington. We have no fiscal sanity today, and worse, the optimistic projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show the situation getting much []

American Thinker

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· Jun 22, 2026

Trump’s Iran 'Peace' Deal is a Shrewd Midterm Maneuver

Photo Credit:Trump, looking shrewd grokA short-term economic calm from reopened oil flows could be the difference in holding the U.S. House. Is Trump’s deal smart politics? Yes.

Americans for Prosperity

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· Jul 10, 2026

How freedom enables growth and prosperity

For millions of Americans, the American Dream feels harder to reach than it did a generation ago. Essentials like housing, energy, and groceries cost more now, tightening the budgets of families and small businesses. But some states are showing a better path: When government removes barriers and gives people more freedom to build, invest, and [] The post How freedom enables growth and prosperity appeared first on Americans for Prosperity.

DNyuz

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· Jun 28, 2026

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drops blistering warning on ‘political albatross’ Trump is facing

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) argued this week that the rising cost of living has become a genuine crisis for ordinary Americans — and a serious political liability for President Donald Trump heading into the November midterms. Her comments were highlighted by CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane, who framed the affordability crunch as “a political albatross []

Real Clear Politics

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· Jul 9, 2026

Why Is Trump Obsessed With Passing the SAVE America Act?

Why Is Trump Obsessed With Passing the SAVE America Act?

NaturalNews.com

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· Jul 8, 2026

Poll: Almost Half of Americans Struggle to Afford Food and Fuel

(NaturalNews) Nearly half of Americans reported difficulty affording everyday necessities such as groceries and gas, according to a new Harris Poll conducted for Th...

Daily Mail

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· Jul 8, 2026

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS review: Filthy rich? If this millionaire chancer gets his way, we'll all be dirt poor...

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS review: Filthy rich? If this millionaire chancer gets his way, we'll all be dirt poor...

Crooks and Liars

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· Jul 7, 2026

Millionaire Bill O'Reilly Tells Americans: 'Stop Yowling About Higher Prices'

At the end of Bill O'Reilly's Monday podcast (around the 20-minute mark), he castigated Americans for yowling about high prices because of Trump's inflationary policies and unnecessary war with Iran. Instead, he told people to shut up and get in the stock market. For multimillionaires, having disposable income is like breathing air on a nice day at the beach. Bill O unintentionally explained that Trump's policies only benefit the very rich, while causing hundreds of millions of people to suffer. O'REILLY: What do you think that the government is going to provide a comfortable living for you? Is that what you think? You'll get Social Security, but that eeks by. You want to live in a trailer? Stock market is the way to amass capital. I'm not a speculator. I My portfolio is doing great because Trump, his policies, appeal to the big companies, but 40 of Americans don't participate in capitalism and a lot of them are yowling about high prices? Come on. You get 4 inflation here. Live in the real world. So you younger people, you got to get into the stock market I haven't written about this blowhard for years, but he's still an arrogant prick. During his tenure at Fox News, he was paid between 15 and 25 million a year, and his net worth has been estimated at between 70 and 100 million. He cannot comprehend families trying to make ends meet, especially in their younger years. read more

Financial Times

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· Jul 3, 2026

Investing in an age of lawlessness

Copying the investments made by Trump and other political elites is one potential tactic but it carries risks

Off The Press

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· Jul 7, 2026

O’Reilly urges Americans to invest in stock market and stop ‘yowling about high prices’

Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly on Monday urged Americans to invest in the stock market and stop “yowling about rising prices” amid widespread concerns about the economy. “My portfolio is doing great because Trump is — his policies appeal to the big companies, but 40 percent of Americans don’t participate in capitalism, and a lot of them []...Click to read more

Wired

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· Jun 30, 2026

Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.

WRAL News

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· Jul 9, 2026

Fact-check: Trump credits stock market for $2B increase in wealth in 2025

Asked about a financial disclosure showing a 2 billion increase in his wealth, President Donald Trump said: Well, you know why I'm profiting? Because the stock market's going up — everybody's profiting. Do you have a 401(k)? So we're all profiting.

Seeking Alpha

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· Jun 28, 2026

Americans Are Spending More, But Their Savings Are Quietly Disappearing

Americans Are Spending More, But Their Savings Are Quietly Disappearing

Breitbart News

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· Jun 23, 2026

You Would FAIL “The Price Is Right!” Moreno Schools Witness on Price Drops Under Trump

You would FAIL “The Price is Right!” Senator Bernie Moreno schooled Leftist Dr. Julie Margetta Morgan, who was testifying before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, on the increase in affordability in the Trump administration. #shorts

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