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Trump struggles to persuade Americans to ignore affordability issues
Trump Calls Affordability a 'Con Job' as His Edge on the Economy Slips
Source: New York Times
President Trump is growing frustrated as Americans struggle with higher prices and pessimism over the state of the economy.
President Trump on Tuesday downplayed the cost-of-living pains being felt by Americans, declaring that affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody” as his political edge on the economy continues to dissipate.
In remarks during a cabinet meeting, Mr. Trump railed against Democrats who have championed the issue, which helped the party secure several off-year election victories last month and is likely to be a defining topic in the midterms next year.
After ticking off what he claimed were trillions of dollars of investments and other economic accomplishments, Mr. Trump called the issue of affordability a “fake narrative” and “con job” created by Democrats to dupe the public.
“They just say the word,” he said. “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. They just say it — affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-affordability-economy-messaging.html
Affordability "doesn’t mean anything to anybody." Keep saying it Donald, loud and clear, as often as possible.
The Trump Family has lost 1 billion on crypto
World Liberty's digital governance token is down about 50%
Trump Media and Technology down 70%
The 'official' $TRUMP meme coin down 90%
Bitcoin sell-off halts Trump family's crypto windfall
The Trump family has lost roughly a billion dollars, according to estimates.
The $TRUMP meme coin is now trading near an all-time low of $5.73, according to crypto trading platform CoinMarketCap. The digital token peaked at about $45 just ahead of inauguration. That's a loss of nearly 90% since the start of the year.
And World Liberty's digital governance token is down about 50% since its September launch.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236680781_In_from_the_cold_'nuclear_winter'_melts_down
Amazing numbers from the 2025 Governors race exit polls
Women
NJ: 62 - 37 Sherrill (D)
VA: 65 - 35 Spanberger (D)
Women 18 - 30 years
NJ: 81 - 19 Sherrill (D)
VA: 82 - 18 Spanberger (D)
A majority of white women voted Dem.
White men, no college
69 - 31 GOP (NJ)
71 - 29 GOP (VA)
https://edition.cnn.com/election/2025/exit-polls/virginia/general/governor/0
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away.
“I had to take our baby from my crying wife’s arms,” Mr. Paul, 33, said, recalling the moment that agents said they were arresting his wife, Katie.
Ms. Paul was sent to an immigration detention center with hundreds of other people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown. Her husband had to take a leave from his job at the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to care for their child and try to secure her release.
New York Times
First 'piggy,' now 'ugly': Trump continues attacks on female reporters
He did not mention the male reporter who co-wrote the story, Dylan Freedman, who is on the newspaper’s AI initiatives team, but he personally attacked the female reporter, Katie Rogers, who is a White House correspondent.
“The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out,” Trump wrote.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/26/media/trump-piggy-ugly-reporter-insult-ny-times
There will be a day when I run low on Energy, it happens to everyone,” Trump said, “but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (‘That was aced’) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now!
Confirmed: Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
President Masoud Pezeshkian reportedly told officials last week that the capital of Iran would have to move from Tehran.https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143569765
... no longer reportedly
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Pezeshkian said the pressure on water, land and infrastructure had left the government with “no option” but to act. “When we said we must move the capital, we did not even have enough budget. If we had, maybe it would have been done. The reality is that we no longer have a choice; it is an obligation,” he said in a speech in Qazvin.
He said Tehran now faces “catastrophe” as land in parts of the capital sinks by up to 30 centimeters a year and water supplies shrink. “When we say the land subsides 30 centimeters each day, this means disaster,” he said. He warned that mismanagement, construction in upstream areas and cuts to downstream water flows risk irreversible damage.
Pezeshkian said officials across government must work together or “a dark future” awaits. “Protecting the environment is not a joke,” he said. “Ignoring it means signing our own destruction.”
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098
The leader of Syria is a "young attractive guy" - Trump
Mark Epstein - "Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?"
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