Trump: Shut Up About Your Grocery Bill

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Trump: Shut Up About Your Grocery Bill

He says, “everything’s way down.” Reality—and your receipt—say otherwise.

Team Coffman Chronicle

Nov 08, 2025

There’s a line every working person hears that makes their blood boil: “I don’t want to hear about it.”

That’s exactly what Donald Trump said this week when asked about affordability. He looked straight into the cameras and sneered: “I don’t want to hear about the affordability, because right now we’re much less.” He boasted that *“everything’s way down”—*gas prices, groceries, energy, you name it.

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But let’s be clear: that line didn’t come from a president trying to comfort a struggling country. It came from a man who’s stopped even pretending to care what working families are going through. The same man who lives off a taxpayer-funded security detail, flies in private jets, and spends his days ranting about “fake numbers” while Americans are budgeting for bread and ground beef.

Trump doesn’t want to hear about affordability because affordability exposes him. It’s the one topic he can’t control, can’t spin, and can’t lie his way out of—not when receipts tell the story.

The Lie Heard Around the Checkout Line

Let’s start with his words: “I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” That’s a real quote from his press conference, confirmed by outlets like Newsweek and The New Republic. He went on to say that “our energy costs are way down, our groceries are way down, everything is way down.”

That’s a lie, plain and simple.

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, grocery prices are 2.7% higher than they were a year ago and 1.4% higher than when Trump took office again in January. There’s no world where “way down” describes that. Meat, poultry, and eggs remain some of the biggest household expenses, and milk prices—once thought to be stabilizing—are up again this fall.

But Trump didn’t stop there. He bragged that the cost of Thanksgiving dinner is down “about 25%.” Sounds great—until you look at the fine print. That claim came from a single Walmart comparison between two baskets of food. The trick? The “cheaper” basket this year had fewer items. It’s like saying a car costs less because you left off the engine.

The same goes for gas prices. Trump told reporters we’re “getting close to $2 a gallon.” In reality, the national average is hovering between $3.25 and $3.40 a gallon. The only thing “close to $2” is Trump’s grip on the truth.

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The Reality for Families

Out here in the real world, affordability isn’t a debate topic—it’s a daily crisis.

Every time a family opens their grocery app, they see that same invisible tax: inflation without accountability. Bread, eggs, ground beef, baby formula—everything’s up since before the pandemic. And the people hit hardest are the same ones politicians like Trump love to call “forgotten Americans.”

In Texas alone, 3.5 million people rely on SNAP benefits to eat. Across the country, millions more live paycheck to paycheck, trying to stretch $100 into a week’s worth of meals. When government shutdowns threaten SNAP or delay benefits, grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods feel it first. Shelves shrink, sales drop, and small-town stores cut back on staff or inventory.

That’s the affordability story no one in Trump’s orbit wants to tell: it’s not just about how much food costs—it’s about how fragile the system has become. When a president says he doesn’t want to hear about affordability, he’s saying he doesn’t want to hear about you. Your rent, your groceries, your kids’ lunches, your heating bill—those aren’t part of his narrative. They’re just inconvenient facts.

The Political Theater Behind the Dismissal

Let’s talk about why he’s doing this.

Trump’s line about affordability wasn’t a gaffe—it was strategy. He’s trying to paint a picture of prosperity to blunt growing frustration over his own economic failures. The shutdown fallout, SNAP uncertainty, stagnant wages, and stubborn inflation all threaten his favorite illusion: that he’s a financial genius who can “fix” the economy by sheer force of ego.

When he says, “I don’t want to hear about affordability,” he’s not just dismissing the issue—he’s declaring victory over it. That’s the authoritarian trick: deny the problem, then attack anyone who points it out.

This isn’t new for him. Remember COVID? The job losses? The trade wars that gutted soybean farmers and raised consumer prices? Each time, Trump responded the same way: deny, deflect, double down. He said everything was “great” even as the country fell apart. Now he’s doing it again with groceries and gas.

But this time, it’s even crueler. Because this isn’t about abstract policy—it’s about people’s ability to eat.

The Gaslighting Economy

Trump’s presidency runs on a constant loop of gaslighting: tell people things are great, then call them liars when they say otherwise.

He says “everything’s way down” while prices climb. He insists energy costs are cheaper while power bills rise. He calls the media “fake” for reporting inflation data from his own administration’s agencies.

It’s all theater—but it’s dangerous theater. Because when people start doubting their own experience at the checkout line, that’s when democracy takes a hit. Economic disinformation isn’t just a campaign tactic; it’s a way to numb the public into accepting pain as normal.

Every authoritarian movement knows this trick. You convince people their suffering is imaginary. You turn frustration into apathy. You make folks feel like maybe it’s their fault that the groceries cost more, not the fault of the people writing the policies.

But the truth is, no family budget lies. A pound of chicken doesn’t care about politics. The math is the math.

Affordability Is the Story

Trump said he’s tired of hearing about affordability. Good—because the rest of us are tired of living it.

We’re tired of being lectured about “fake news” when the evidence is sitting in our carts. We’re tired of billionaires telling us everything’s fine from behind velvet ropes. And we’re tired of politicians pretending grocery prices don’t matter because Wall Street is happy.

Affordability is the story. It’s the kitchen-table story—the story that decides whether people eat, whether kids go to school with full bellies, whether parents can pay the power bill before payday. And the minute a president says he doesn’t want to hear about it, he’s admitting he’s not fighting for you anymore.

Trump wants silence on affordability because affordability exposes the lie: that his “economic genius” is just marketing. His real legacy is deregulation for donors, debt for working people, and a cost of living crisis no one in his circle ever has to face.

But we’re not going silent. Because while Trump hides behind podiums, America’s families are still at the checkout counter—doing math, counting dollars, and wondering why their leaders have stopped listening.

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The Last Word

The truth is simple: prices are up, not down. Wages are lagging. SNAP remains vulnerable. Gas prices aren’t anywhere near $2. And when Trump says he doesn’t want to hear about affordability, what he really means is he doesn’t want to take responsibility.

That’s not leadership. That’s abandonment.

And if we don’t call it what it is—a deliberate lie, meant to erase the pain of millions—then we’ve already let him win the argument before it even starts.

So let’s keep saying it out loud: affordability matters. Because no president, no billionaire, no spin doctor should get to tell America to stop talking about its own survival.

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