5d ago

Trump insists grocery prices are down. Do Americans buy it?

www.nj.com

According to an Axios survey by The Harris Poll, most Americans believe it is harder to afford groceries compared to a year ago. The findings, released Thursday, show that 47% of the general public feel pain in their wallets, while 34% said that prices are about the same. Meanwhile, 19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.

Among independents, 54% say groceries are more costly, compared to 50% of Democrats and 34% of Republicans. Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that they are easier to afford, while 37% say they are similar to last year.

The survey also found that 8 in 10 Americans believe the president has “significant influence” over the U.S. economy, and only 47% believe the current administration has had a positive impact on it, signaling a pressure point for Trump and the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. Less than 1 in 3 respondents maintain that tariffs have been beneficial for the economy, business or personal finances, while most Americans — standing at 63% — worry of shortages of key goods due to Trump’s signature policy.

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5d ago

Trump insists grocery prices are down. Do Americans buy it?

www.nj.com /politics/2025/10/trump-has-insisted-grocery-prices-are-down-do-americans-buy-it.html

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I operate on a beans and rice budget; shit like an 6 ounce can of tomato past went from $0.60 to $1.00. Same sorts of price increases go for rice, beans, garbonzos and other canned/dry non perishables. Flour has gone up. Sugar has gone up. Don't even get me started on the price of meat. Produce has gone up, A bulb of garlic cost $1.00 now, and where it used to be 30-50 cents. Green onions $1.50 when they used to be $1.00. Seeing similar price rises in cilantro, fresh corn, cucumbers, potatos, onions. I started making stuff from scratch to save money . . . aaaannnnd it's gone.
- Our grocery budget is up at least 50% in the last few months. Food is becoming stupid expensive.
  
  Yeah, my youngest just headed off to college so I was hoping to at least get a break in food prices but nope. My grocery bill for only me is essentially the same as when I also had a starving teenager to fill up
  
  Hope you like corn and soy beans. We grow a ton of that and no other country is buying it from us.
I work in a grocery store, I can tell you straight up that the orange bitch is lying.
- I shop in grocery stores and have the same knowledge.
- It's a banana what can it cost?
  
  Tariffed bananas or bananas made in Pennsylvania by union labor?
- next you're going to tell me that plane tickets aren't $2
  
  ... because if they were, I'd be off on quite the extended vacation by now for the whole family. Even a bunch of friends. Never been a better time to get away.
  I'd even risk a ride on a Boeing to do it at this point.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
George Orwell, 1984
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. - George Orwell, 1984
Bold faced, obvious lie.
- He might believe it; it's not like he's ever set foot in a grocery store.
- FYI, it's "bald" not "bold".
  
  Bold-faced has been used at least since the late 1900s https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced
  
  Balled-fazed lye
  
  Nope, it's either one.
do Americans buy it?
Well, they're not buying groceries.
- Weird, the child rapist in chief says it's cheaper. Are you calling the orange unregistered paedophile a liar?
  
  indeed i am. He's an orange lying piece of shit.
  
  He's the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED. Traitors are liars by definition.
If Trump says the sun's shining, there's probably an eclipse.
I love that this easily quantifiable metric is so split along partisan lines.
- Literally everything is. It's insanity. Politically conscious People's opinions in this country now have their entire reality dictated to them by their party of choice.
  
  Wow what a take.
  Groceries being expensive isnt some thought injected into my head by Nancy pelosi from beyond the grave. It's a measurable fact that is true or is not true.
- partisan lines
  Ah, you mean between people who accept objective reality as fact and people who don't.
  
  Reality has a well-known liberal bias. So of course it's on the Republican's enemy list.
He’s never stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. Facist old pig.
- I’m sure there would’ve been one or two occasions where he may have stepped into a (likely closed) one, in order to survey before demolishing it to build one of his gaudy towers or failed casinos.
- He had never even heard the word grockery before 2025
Republicans really just live in their own insane reality
- They don't need reality
  They have faith
- "Reality"
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
These are the people who love the emperor's new clothes.
- It's amazing when prices go up, wages go down, and unemployment goes up, just how many people can't understand basic things like their grocery bill when politics are somehow involved, lol.
Do we buy it? We can't afford to buy a god damn thing!
To believe it would be to deny reality. Can someone please tell republicans that you can’t just say thing’s to make it true.
- They seem to have gotten away with it so far. They have no reason to stop making up alternate realities until their constituents stop believing them
- Saying things doesn't make them true; but repeated, consistent messaging sure as fuck makes people believe it. Human brains are pitifully easy to brute force.
We've always been at was with Eastasia.
I always believe what someone who has never even been inside of a grocery store their entire life has to say about grocery prices!
This dipshit believes anything anyone tells him. And the only people telling him things, are the sycophants he surrounds himself with. Of course he thinks everything he's doing is making everything better. They're all afraid to tell him anything else.
Bully pulpit power is real. This guy can fart and make his followers thank they did it. There are some serious flaws in human psychology and if you are enough of a dick to want to hack them, you can go far at the exeof others.
Americans can't afford to buy shit, not even the literal kind. That's rather the point.
- Domestic Economic Terrorism
  
  "Radical left agitators!", claims Claire's
  Radical left
  On their closing sign: Claire's blaming the "radical left" for shutting down
- Literally, my sewage bill North of Seattle went from $76 a month to $189 a month in less than 10 years. That's not even including water usage. Looks like my only option to save money in the long run is to go septic because at this rate my literal shit is going to make me bankrupt when I retire.
  
  ...And that's when you start manufacturing gunpowder the old fashioned way. To defray costs, obviously. I can't imagine why else you'd do it, under the circumstances.
  Ahem.
  
  Incinerator toilets like the Incinolet don't need septic or water. They can also be used to burn small trash. But there are downsides:
  Incinolet toilet: $3000
  Per flush: 2000 watts (120v), 3500 watts (240v)
  Incinerates at 1400°F
  Cheapest liners: 7¢ each flush. 18" sheets of wax paper would be cheaper. 7¢ liners might be too small for explosive diarrhea splatter.
  Incineration cycles can be interrupted and restarted.
  Need a 5" vent hole pipe.
- Not just Americans. I just spent $145 CAD on at best 5 days worth of food. Granted I'm doing my best not to eat shitty food so it was fresh veg among other non/less processed stuff. Barely any meat too. Food costs are insane in Canada too.
  
  145 CAD
  That's like 660 DKK given current exchange rates. Oh, you sweet summer child. Good thing I like cabbage.
  But yes, the Trump Slump is real everywhere. Russia isn't helping either, the pricks.
So they polled people on subjective opinions instead of looking at the data? Wtf kind of reporting is this?
- It's useful in the sense that people vote on what they feel the facts are, not the actual facts. Crime statistics might be trending down, but if there's a ton of crime stories in the news people feel like crime is up. There's similar dynamics at play when it comes to inflation and other economic indicators.
  
  Oh yes!
  Also fun when everyone we know is lamenting their inability to land an interview and getting ghosted, while the news reports record profits and low unemployment numbers and hiring sprees.
  And then when companies want to keep their staff from getting too uppity, we start hearing how everything is precarious and layoffs are high and unemployment is rising.
A year ago I wondered what all the fuss about raising grocery prices was all about this year I know.
war is peace, austerity is properity, up is down.
Bought three days of food on Sunday for $80. Four boxes of ready rice, two chicken breasts, two Italian sausages, one steak, french beans, brussel sprouts, and some asparagus. They can eat my ass with this cheap grocery narrative.
Quick check of the community forums and you've got at least 50% of people either denying prices are too damn high or they're justifying it with "Buh my Trump!".
Before Trump and COVID, soda was maybe $5.99 for a 12-pack. It's $9.99 now. That's a simple gauge
- Thanks Obama!
  
  Fuckin FDR....
Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that [groceries] are easier to afford
In what currency, Trump coin?
- Snort
Americans probably can't even afford his lies.
Thank goodness we have a 25 gram increase in our chocolate ration!
He’s a moron who has likely never set foot in a grocery store in his life. He didn’t even think people actually use that word.
https://youtu.be/2NKByZe7kZg
But it’s irrelevant. The president has very little control for making prices go down. Too many market forces to contend with. He has quite a bit of control on making them go up with his stupid ideas of tariffs however.
When was the last time the Orange Fucknut went grocery shopping? He's a clueless racist bastard.
- Scooped by 20 seconds by erhmagherd.
The people claiming prices are the same or lower either are lying or their butlers are picking up the groceries.
How the hell can it be this split on fucking party lines?
- Notice how dems are less realistic than independents here?
  
  I mean,
  For this study, the data is accurate to within +/- 2.4 percentage points for the overall population using a 95% confidence level, and +/- 3.0 percentage points for respondents within the registered voters.
  So it's potentially a really small difference, but, still. Do dems have higher incomes on average than independents? Could explain why so many of them kept believing the economy was great in 2024.
Why would anyone ever believe the man who has never been grocery shopping in his life? Does anyone really think that Donny 2 Inches actually knows the price of a bottle of milk or a loaf of bread?
- $6.25 for 2 big jugs of milk at Costco, as of a couple days ago.
  Figured I would mention it, just so people can compare their own milk prices against it.
  
  If you want people to do fair comparisons, "big jugs" doesn't cut it. How big were they in liters/pints ?
"Don't believe your lying eyes"
- I've never liked this expression because your eyes do lie to you so often. It's the whole reason optical illusions exist.
  
  Optical illusions are specifically designed to fool the eye. The foolery is useful to keep us from having to cognitively recalculate what we're visually used to seeing. Optical illusions aren't a human flaw; they're an overall benefit.
  
  This is not an optical illusion.
1 in 3 respondents maintain that tariffs have been beneficial for the economy
So pretty much the entire Republican base that always believe the bullshit Faux "News" spreads.
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
I guess it's nice that reality has finally penetrated their base? At least until they come up with some spin that makes them even more deranged, like during the pandemic :/
Bread is so expensive, grocery stores are selling half loaves.
- I just bought wheat bread yesterday here in California and it was on sale for $5.49. I could've got wonder brand white bread for $2.99 but my family doesn't like that.
  
  Good on your family. Diabetes costs more in the long run.
If you buy it, you are obviously an idiot.
According to some dipshit on reddit the other day they absolutely buy it, but claim if it's not true it's only not true in bLuE CiTiEs
Neo-Liberalism on both ends of the isle are to blame, this is late stage capitalism baby! I’ll be here waiting for it to trickle down.
You cannot have a left party that doesn’t have the balls to tax the rich.

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