Trump Is Talking About Affordability And Prices And It Is A Disaster For Republicans

After Republicans got hammered in the election, they urged Trump to talk more about prices. He did, and it was a total disaster.

Donald Trump has always thought of himself as someone who has much more power than he actually does.

Trump thinks that he is so persuasive that he can shape reality with his words. The president has always believed that he is his own best PR person.

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The last decade has proven that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy.

Republicans got beaten badly in Tuesday’s election. The lost was much worse than anything that Republicans could have anticipated, and some members of Donald Trump’s party immediately started blaming the president for having little to no interest in the economic issues that matter most to voters.

These Republicans went to Trump and urged him to talk more about affordability and prices. They warned that Trump had to talk more about the issues that matter most to the American people, or Republicans risked losing the midterm election and ending Trump’s active presidency with a Democratic Congress that would turn him into a lame duck president.

Trump has two strategies for discussing a problem. First, he tries to claim that he has already solved the problem, so it doesn’t exist. Trump has done this by claiming that inflation is gone, grocery prices are down, and gas is two dollars a gallon.

None of these things is true.

Trump’s other strategy is the one he's broken out in the last couple of days: claiming that one warped statistic means everything is fine.

Keep reading the story below.