Americans who were hoping to hear Donald Trump’s plan to lower the cost of groceries were disappointed once again on Sunday.
Trump has claimed he won the presidential election on the issues of immigration and “groceries”, but his actions since returning to the White House has been focused on the former while ignoring the latter.
In a pre-Super Bowl LIX interview with Fox News, anchor Bret Baier asked Trump “when do you think families would be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy?”
Baier even tried to assist Trump, adding, “Or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better?”
Trump still managed to give an incomprehensible rant about tariffs and the national debt.
“No, I think we’re going to become a rich – and look, we’re not that rich right now,” he said.
“We owe $36 trillion (in debt). That’s because we let all these nations take advantage of us. Same thing, like 200 billion with Canada. We owe 300 – we have a deficit with Mexico of $350 billion,” Trump continued. “I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to let that happen.”
If the country is ‘not that rich now’ because of the debt then Trump is largely to blame.
An analysis found that Trump had added twice more to the national debt than President Joe Biden did.
Trump added $8.4 trillion in borrowing over a ten-year window, while Biden added $4.3 trillion.
Even without the COVID pandemic, Trump’s addition to the country’s national debt still doubles Biden’s—$4.8 trillion for Trump and $2.2 trillion for Biden.
