There's just ONE TEENY, TINY LITTLE CATCH with Trump's boast of "Lowering 2025 Thanksgiving costs at WalMart"

[Miles Archer]

On Election Day 2025, Trump boldly proclaimed, "If affordability is your issue, VOTE REPUBLICAN! Energy costs, as an example, are plummeting." Despite his claims, energy costs are actually rising, not falling, Benen said.

Following Democratic election victories, Trump doubled down, declaring, "Affordability is our goal." He then launched into a passionate rant: "2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart. My cost are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats 'affordability' issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!"

In reality, Walmart simply reduced costs by decreasing the number of items and replacing brand-name products with cheaper alternatives - not through any White House intervention.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-affordability/

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Like he knows anything about buying groceries or putting gas in a car.

[yaesu]

2. My car battery that I was going to purchase at Wal went up 10 bucks this week so guess they are

passing turkeyday cuts to other items.

[Norrrm]

3. Donald, where are you buying these lower cost items? How much for each item?

Rhetorical questions of course.
Don't expect an answer.

[democratsruletheday]

4. another day....another lie from

the orange shitter

[Torchlight]

5. He keeps using that word. I don't think it means what he thinks it means

I think he's confusing Affability with Age of Consent Laws again.



"No age of of consent is our goal." He then launched into a passionate rant: "2025 Thanksgiving age of consent under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart. My ages are lower than the Democrats on everything!"

[NameAlreadyTaken]

6. Yes, it is cheaper to starve...

[bmichaelh]

7. Trump's vocabulary

It has been said that Trump has the vocabulary of an 8-year old.

Today, he said "affordability" is a new word.
Not quite.
The word is over a century old.
Shakespeare used the word "afford"
"Afford" was first used in the 14th century.
Does not take much to add "ability" to "afford"
First use of "affordability" was in 1910.

He is trying to gaslight the American people by saying affordability issue is dead.
It is not. Even if groceries and gas prices went down, (not yet); he does not consider healthcare as part of affordability.,

Other times, he uses words that he does not know the meaning of.
From Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think is means what you think it means"

[mucholderthandirt]

8. And it wouldn't matter how cheap something was, if you don't have a job.

Or you don't have a home to cook Thanksgiving dinner in. Or the health to do all that work, because you lost your insurance and couldn't pay for your medications, or get a doctor's appointment to get treatment for an illness.

And what's the point if Grandma can't fly in to spend the holiday with family? Or you can't fly to her house.

It's all nonsense, because even the MAGA idiots know, though they won't admit it, that things are better under the Dems. Oh, some gay guy can get married, or walk in a Pride parade, and women get treated fairly under the law. Some "librul" has taken their guns and Bible! Oh, the horror. Yawn. Isn't anyone tired of those lies yet?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. MaddowBlog-Trump makes an overdue discovery: 'They have this new word called affordability'

After Democrats scored election victories, the president started talking about “affordability.” Unfortunately, his assessment is rooted in nonsense.

📰 MSNBC
Trump makes an overdue discovery: 'They have this new word called affordability'

⟶ MSNBC | headline in context

— The 🇺🇸 Headline Bot (@us-headlines.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T18:44:29.514Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-overdue-discovery-new-word-called-affordability-rcna242345

Donald Trump spent years publishing assorted messages to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, but he literally never wrote a tweet that included the word “affordability.”....

The day after Democratic election victories, Trump assured the public, “Affordability is our goal.” That was followed by a related online rant: “2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart. My cost [sic] are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats [sic] ‘affordability’ issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!”

Whether the president understands this or not, Walmart lowered the cost of its Thanksgiving dinner by reducing the number of items included in the package and replacing brand-name products with value products. It was not, in other words, the result of the White House’s awesomeness.

As for the idea that the underlying issue is “dead,” the president seems to know better. Consider his exchange with Bret Baier during the Republican’s Fox News interview Wednesday night.

Link to tweet

.......By Trump’s reasoning, GOP officials and candidates have struggled because they haven’t talked about the cost-of-living challenges facing American consumers. That might make him feel better, but the underlying issue isn’t rhetorical, it’s practical.

Republicans can use “this new word” all the time and it won’t change the fact the party, with total control over federal policymaking, has failed spectacularly to address one of the key issues that elevated them to power in the first place.

Democrats scored election victories, not by mentioning “affordability,” but by shining a light on the GOP’s substantive failures on the issue and offering an alternative.

The longer Trump fails to understand this, the more often he and his party will suffer political and electoral consequences.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. MaddowBlog-On Walmart and Thanksgiving costs, Trump's 'big fact' is neither big nor fact

Pressed on federal efforts to address consumer costs, the White House has exactly one talking point — and it’s demonstrably false.

Link to tweet

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/walmart-thanksgiving-costs-trumps-big-fact-neither-big-fact-rcna244452

When it comes to inflation, affordability and Americans’ concerns about the cost of living, Donald Trump has spent months fighting a losing war. The president keeps lying, and the public keeps getting annoyed.

The White House, however, believes it has one key piece of evidence on its side.

Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-16T23:58:35.286Z

......In reality, the claim is neither big nor a fact, as the president really ought to understand by now.

The truth is simple: Walmart lowered the cost of its Thanksgiving dinner by reducing the number of items included in the package and replacing brand-name products with value products. Consumers will pay less, in other words, because they’ll get less, no thanks to the White House’s misguided agenda......

A couple of days later, after the president repeated the lie at a White House event, a reporter explained reality to him. “I haven’t heard that,” the Republican replied, shortly before condemning the truth as “fake news.”

In the days that followed, he continued to peddle the same falsehood. Members of his team, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, faced similar difficulties reconciling the talking point with the truth.

That leading administration officials, including the president, keep trying to mislead the public about one of the issues Americans care about most is obviously indefensible, but I’m also struck by the bigger picture: Pressed on federal efforts to address consumer costs, the White House has exactly one talking point — and it’s not true