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with opinion polls Americans have increasingly disappointing opinions about his job performance And Economic record of his administrationchairman donald trump went to pennsylvania to celebrate voter He The pain they’re feeling at the grocery store And when they look at their health insurance bills, it’s not their fault.
His remarks at a casino in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, lasted no more than a few minutes, when he clearly lied to those who had come to meet him.
After presenting a set of unverified statistics about how many new jobs he has brought to the Keystone State since returning to office, Trump turned his attention to $12 billion bailout His administration is providing benefits to farmers who are suffering from the double whammy of low harvest prices and higher duties on farm equipment.
“You know, tariffs are bringing us hundreds of billions of dollars. I’ve just helped our farmers because they’re starting to do really well. But to try and negotiate, some countries played nice a little bit, and we gave them right out of those billions, hundreds of billions of dollars that we’ve taken, we gave a little bit of help to the farmers, $12 billion, and they’re very happy,” he said.
The $12 billion bailout is real — he and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the program during a roundtable with farmers in the Cabinet Room on Monday. But Rollins himself told reporters later that day that funds for the bailout would come from the Commodity Credit Corporation, an agency of the Agriculture Department that finances agricultural safety net programs, often by borrowing up to $30 billion from the Treasury and private lenders.
In his first appearance at one of his signature campaign-style rallies since the summer, Trump continued to deliver a speech on the teleprompter Stemwinder of a speech aimed at assuaging concerns about voters. Their failure to address any issues of affordability or cost of living Due to which he chose her in place of former Vice President Kamala Harris a year ago.
At times, Trump stuck to the script. He repeated canned lines about “the amazing … transformation of our country” since his return to the White House 11 months ago and claimed that “prices have gone down significantly” due to his administration greenlighting oil exploration across the country.
He also alleged that he had “no higher priority than making America affordable”. democrat Being the “reason” for the high prices to persist for about a year in his office.
“They’ve given you the highest inflation in history, and we’re … bringing those prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks, you’re getting lower prices. Bigger paychecks, we’ve got inflation, we’re crushing it, and you’re getting much higher wages,” he said.
Trump then claimed in front of the working-class, blue-collar crowd that “the only thing” that is “moving in big numbers is stock market And that’s before alleviating voters’ concerns about the cost of your 401(k), which has continued to rise since he returned to power as a “hoax” perpetrated by his Democratic Party opponents.
“They always have a cheat sheet – the new word is affordability,” he said.
“Democrats talking about affordability is like preaching Bonnie and Clyde about public safety. And when they do that they’re actually the enemies of the working class.”
between Racist remarks about Somalian immigrants and attacks on several Black members of Congress, Trump continued to blame his predecessor, former President Joe Biden And his colleagues in Congress repeated previously debunked claims about the price of Thanksgiving dinner “blowing up our economy” and “driving prices up” just weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday.
“They use the word affordability, and it’s their only word. They say affordability, and everybody says, Oh, that must mean Trump’s prices are higher? No, our prices are coming in well below the highest prices in the history of our country,” he said.
Throughout his speech, Trump tried to put all the blame for price increases in several sectors on Biden and several of his appointees, including Federal Reserve Board of Governors Chairman Jerome Powell and other members of the Board of Governors.
At one point, while watching Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, he baselessly suggested that all four Biden appointees to the central bank’s board were illegitimate because their commissions – the formal document appointing them to office after Senate confirmation – might have been signed with an autopen.
He said, “I heard that Auto Penn may have signed those commissions, if they signed those commissions. Now maybe I’m wrong, but we’re going to investigate.”
Trump’s comments come as the Senate prepares to vote on a Democratic proposal to expand pandemic-era subsidies for health insurance purchased on Affordable Care Act exchanges to prevent steep increases in insurance premiums that could cause families to pay thousands more per year for coverage.
During his first four years in office, he failed to persuade Congress to repeal the landmark health care law and never proposed a replacement for it, despite promising to do so several times.
His GOP colleagues in Congress have not come up with any serious proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act, partly because the ACA was based on what was once a Clinton-era proposal from the Heritage Foundation, meant as an alternative to a government-run, single-payer health care system.
But Trump has refused to support increasing subsidies, despite polling that shows Americans — even many who voted for him — overwhelmingly support doing so.
Instead, he told rally attendees that he opposes increasing tax credits because they go to insurance companies and accused Democrats of being “bought and owned” by them, while pushing the idea that the government could give direct payments to buy health insurance from those same insurance companies.
He said, “I want to give billions of dollars directly to people… I don’t want to give anything to the insurance companies… because they are ruining our country with the Democrats’ scams.”
“We want the money to go directly to people. We want you to go out and buy your health insurance.”
The president’s return to the rallies that have defined his political movement over the past 10 years also comes as Americans are feeling the pain from his tariff policies, which have resulted in rising prices for all goods imported from nearly every U.S. trading partner.
Although Trump often claims that tariffs are paid by foreign countries as if they are entry fees for the privilege of exporting goods to the United States, they are actually import taxes paid by American importers and passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
Voters are paying more for many imports than before after imposing heavy taxes on them by executive order under emergency powers that are currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court, but Trump offered a bizarre justification of the taxes, claiming they are necessary to protect American steel manufacturing.
“You need steel. You know, you can skip some products. You can skip pencils. It’s under China’s policy. You know, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two… They don’t need so many products. But you always need steel,” he said.
“You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is fine, you don’t need 37 dolls so we’re doing things right.”
And although Trump claimed his signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act would put more money in the pockets of Pennsylvanians because of “no tax on tips” policies aimed at benefiting low-wage workers, polling shows Americans are less than impressed with his record after returning to office nearly a year later.
According to a recent Gallup poll, only 36 percent of voters approve of his performance as president, giving him the lowest rating of his second term.
a separate politico A survey released this week found 46 percent of respondents said the cost of living in America is worse than at any point in their memory, including 37 percent of voters who pulled the lever for Trump last year.
Nearly half of respondents also said they blame Trump for the current state of the economy — not Biden or Harris.