Trump touted the rising stock market as he brushed off concerns that Americans are laboring under higher gas prices as a result of the Iran war.

KEY POINTS

Donald Trump said Thursday that gasoline prices are “not very high.”

A Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters showed that 65% of U.S. voters blame Trump either “a lot” or “some” for the rise in gas prices seen since the beginning of the Iran war.

Trump said those prices are not as high as what was expected from the war, which he said was aimed at denying Iran the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

  • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
    1019·
    21 hours ago

    So the Bidenification is going in record time - he’s now to the “no stupids, the economy is fine actually, you’re just too dumb to realize it!” phase.

    How’d that work for Biden, I forget?

      • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
        1·
        13 hours ago

        No, I’m pointing out they’re doing the exact same stupid thing politically that Biden did. And with a weaker hand.

    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
      32·
      17 hours ago

      The economy was significantly better under Biden, who started his term with a global shutdown. Inflation was brought back to normal levels, job creation was higher than under Trump and the US had a decently strong economy in comparison to other countries.

      You didn’t forget, you’re dishonest. Either a MAGA troll or a useful idiot for MAGA.

      • zbyte64@awful.systems
        3·
        16 hours ago

        Both can be true. Biden was improving the economy in places, but many people did not feel the recovery.

      • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
        21·
        13 hours ago

        Shitlib, not everyone that doesn’t worship your version of neoliberalism is a Trump supporter. I’m a fucking Marxist.

        Biden’s economy continued the path of the US since the 1990s - stagnant wages, so most growth goes to the rich in a K shaped economy. The gains the workers saw were quickly rolled back in the name of “curbing inflation”, which of course fell on the working class, not asset holders.

        You want to play statistic games like you are, we can talk about how child overtly doubled under Biden after he chose to let the child tax credit expire.

        Or we can skip it - because 2024 already gave a verdict on this. For years Bidenonmics tried the “no, the shit you’re eating is good actually”, and that’s why you have Trump again.