Here’s How People Are Reacting To Donald Trump Saying Lowering Grocery Prices Will Be “Very Hard”

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Here’s How People Are Reacting To Donald Trump Saying Lowering Grocery Prices Will Be “Very Hard”

For those of us who followed the 2024 election, we know that

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for everyday Americans.

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Here are just a few instances on the campaign trail for reference:

On August 15, Trump held a

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, where he had a table full of groceries beside him. “Grocery prices have skyrocketed; how can a family afford that? So, when I win, I will immediately bring prices down,” Trump said.

On

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, and paid for multiple customers’ groceries. “We’ll do that for you from the White House, alright?” Trump said while waving to the crowd.

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on November 4th, 2024:

Even after winning the 2024 election, Trump claimed groceries were the main reason he won. “I won on groceries. A very simple word, groceries,” he said in a

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“I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short ******* of time.”

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Now, Trump is going viral for seemingly backtracking on the grocery campaign promise.

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In a recent

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, Trump claimed that failing to bring down prices should not mean his presidency was a failure.

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In the

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, Trump was directly asked: “If the prices of groceries don’t come down, will your presidency be a failure?” To which he responds, “I don’t think so. Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down,” Trump responded. “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”

“But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down. You know, the supply chain is still broken. It’s broken. You see it. You go out to the docks, and you see all these containers…” Trump continued, veering off into discussing car prices and electric vehicles.

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Here’s Trump’s full response:

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The internet is reacting to Trump’s statement and it’s exactly how you might expect:

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger said this in response to Trump’s Time Magazine answer:

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“He’s not even in office yet and is ALREADY going back on campaign promises,” this person wrote.

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“Trump on Sept. 23: ‘Vote Trump, and your incomes will soar. Your net worth will skyrocket. Your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down,” another person wrote.

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“The whole rationale behind trump was ‘yea he’s a criminal, yea he’s corrupt, yea he’s racist, yea he’s a fascist, yea he incited an insurrection, yea he cozies up to dictators BUT AT LEAST!! BUT AT LEAST we had cheap groceries.’  Now he admits that he can’t even do that,” this user wrote.

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