Here’s a laugh: Trump says grocery prices are 'way down’
President Trump’s delusional nature (Remember when he said the war in Iran would last 4-5 weeks?) resurfaced a few days ago when he told an interviewer on Fox News that grocery prices are coming down, and not just down, but “way down.”
This departure from reality is disheartening. Our president has no clue about the daily challenges facing homemakers who lately have found that inflation is outpacing wage growth.
Where Trump comes up with the conclusion that grocery prices are coming down is anybody’s guess. Facts just don’t support this self-aggrandizing claim. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service says food prices from June 2025 to June 2026 rose 3%, while economy-wide inflation for the same period was 3.5%.
I don’t know how much plainer it can get: food prices – along with the price of just about everything else – continue to go up.
Instead of acknowledging this reality and telling Americans how he plans to deal with the problem of rising prices, Trump tries to convince us that what we see and know from our senses and experience are not the truth.
Weirder than that is Trump’s self-assessment of how he’s handling the economy. He gives himself an A+ for the job he’s doing. He told the Fox interviewer: “Costs are coming way down ... I inherited very, very high costs, and they’re all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it’s all coming down. We’ve done a great job. You know, I think we should be given an A+ on the economy. I think that’s coming, people are starting to talk about it.”
People are starting to talk about it, all right, but here’s what they’re saying to pollsters: Trump’s economic performance is awful.
Also, his claim that he “inherited very, very high costs” is baloney. The inflation rate for 2024, the year before he was inaugurated, was 2.9%, which was considerably lower than the 3.5% rate for the 12 months ending last June.
And for all this he gives himself an A+.
I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense when you consider that everything is going great … in his imagination.
John Tsitrian is a businessman and writer from the Black Hills. He was a weekly columnist for the Rapid City Journal for 20 years. His articles and commentary have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post and The Omaha World-Herald. Tsitrian served in the Marines for three years (1966-69), including a 13-month tour of duty as a radioman in Vietnam. Republish with permission.
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