Trump Blasted for Pathological Refusal to Acknowledge Economic Pain
Donald Trump was blasted for his pathological refusal to acknowledge the affordability crisis hitting Americans, even as 65% believe Trump’s policies are making them financially worse off.
Donald Trump was blasted for his pathological refusal to acknowledge the affordability crisis hitting Americans, even as 65% believe Trump’s policies are making them financially worse off in the short term, according to a new CBS News-You Gov poll.
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On an MS NOW Morning Joe panel, Jonathan Lemire called Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the reality of Americans’ economic pain “pathological” (almost):
“He’s been looking for an off-ramp for a while, has not found one, and you’re right, it’s pathological, almost, where Trump simply cannot acknowledge anything is less than perfect… Let’s remember a week ago he flat out said I’m paraphrasing only slightly that he didn’t care about Americans’ personal finances because of the war in Iran. He was asked about that in that interview. He said it was a perfect statement. He would say it again.”
Host Joe Scarborough (former Republican Congressman of Florida) opened the segment in bewilderment over Trump’s failure to explain the high cost of living as a sacrifice people need to make:
“The things at once, he could say, I’m very sorry. I know it’s very hard for Americans who are struggling with higher gas prices, the highest grocery prices in years. All of these things are terrible, but we have to make a sacrifice right now. Every American does, because Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, kind of has a shortcut, though, and he goes straight to affordability is BS. That’s a made-up phony crisis. Says he’s not worried about how Americans are doing that are struggling with higher prices, and he’s now talking about the stock market going high. I looked at the CBS poll this weekend, and we’ve seen this trend for a while, but I see that the President’s underwater with white non-college Americans, and I just see that number every time, and I’m just jarred by it, but after continuing here to the President talk down affordability and talk up the stock market, maybe it shouldn’t be such a surprise to him.”
The thing is, Trump did make that (misleading) argument early on about high gas prices being the cost of our security, and at least one of his voters regurgitated it in an interview at the gas pump. But then, Trump being Trump, he ruined his already misleading premise for the war in Iran by later admitting that he doesn’t care about the economic pain of regular Americans.
We didn’t have to go to war in Iran. Trump’s premise for the war is so faulty as to be fairly called a lie. Iran was not weeks out from a nuclear weapon, and even worse, the progress they have made toward a nuclear weapon is largely due to Trump destroying Obama’s JCPOA agreement. Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal was a historic international agreement finalized in 2015 to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
