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Affordability is a "scam," says Trump [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2025-12-11  

Donald Trump campaigned on the price of eggs, but since returning to office the economy has worsened and prices haven't gone down. "Affordability is a con job by the Democrats", he now says, making clear that things will not be improving any time soon.

As the billionaire reality TV star elaborated to his cabinet in a meeting: "The word affordability is a Democrat scam."

The meeting served as an opportunity for Trump to burnish his legacy and to highlight potential successors who he said could be seated around the table. Department secretaries described ways they had reduced government regulations, such as by eliminating subsidies for buying electric vehicles, or sought to make the country safer, such as through the Pentagon's attacks on Venezuelan boats allegedly trafficking in drugs.

Another remark for Republican politicians to say they haven't heard and can't comment on, and for the reporters talking to them to not ask about twice.

Previously: 'I will retire with debt' — credit scores drop at fastest rate since Great Recession

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