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"The reality of the situation was that the American people — or at least, a little less than half of the people who cast ballots in November 2024 — did not vote for Trump to be an outer-borough Viktor Orban. They voted for lower prices and greater prosperity."
~ Jamelle Bouie
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"And yet, according to the time-keepers from NBC News, in Trump’s record-long 108-minute SOTU speech, he spoke about affordability for a measly 2.9 minutes."
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"The reality of the situation was that the American people — or at least, a little less than half of the people who cast ballots in November 2024 — did not vote for Trump to be an outer-borough Viktor Orban. They voted for lower prices and greater prosperity."
~ Jamelle Bouie
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #SOTU #economy #affordability #inflation #prices
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"And each moment the president spent on his ideological obsessions — from his attacks on racial integration in government to his effort to punish pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses — was one he did not spend on the promises that put him into office."
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"The most self-destructive of the president’s obsessions was his single-minded devotion to tariffs, which promised to undermine the economy and raise the cost of everyday life for millions of Americans. In fact, according to a recent report from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, the president’s tariffs cost the average household $1,000 over the course of last year."
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #SOTU #economy #affordability #inflation #prices
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Stephen Lillie's cartoon commentary on Trump's State of the Union address with its misrepresentation of what his tariffs have done to the economy and voters' concerns about affordability.
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