Summary

An AP-NORC poll reveals skepticism about Donald Trump’s ability to lower costs like groceries, housing, or healthcare in his first year, with only 2 in 10 Americans expressing strong confidence. Confidence is slightly higher for job creation (3 in 10).

Even among Republicans, less than half are very confident in his ability to address healthcare or food costs.

Health care remains a weak spot, with only 16% of Americans confident he can lower costs.

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    16 hours ago

    So why did they vote for him…

    Oh right, they hate women, trans people, and immigrants…

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    23 hours ago

    And here I am, KNOWING he won’t lower prices, BECAUSE HE FUCKING SAID HE WASN’T GOING TO, AS SOON AS THE VOTES WERE IN!?¡

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    23 hours ago

    Anyone who thinks he’ll do it at all is delusional; he’s gotten $200 million in bribes to increase corporate profits, not lower them.

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        22 hours ago

        Oh I know. Plenty of them it was more about not voting for that n-- bitch. But they knew they could call her that out loud, so they did it in their head and claimed it was about the economy.

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    23 hours ago

    If anything, he’ll print more money than is already the case and fuel inflation.

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    18 hours ago

    Too bad they didn’t think about it before voting.

    Edit: I’d like to add that I will bet groceries for a month that they don’t go down at any point in his term.

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      17 hours ago

      Literally had someone try to tell me this the other day when the ceasefire news came out… That didn’t last.

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    21 hours ago

    MAGA Voters: “Derp derp, he said he do thing, yup yup, we believe, yup yup, dat mean he gon do it, yup. Them eggs and them beers are gunna be incredibly affordable anyday now, yup yup”

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    23 hours ago

    At this point I’m just hoping he doesn’t plunge us into The Great Depression 2: Electric Breadaloo

    So great we stuck it to bLuEMaGa on that one single issue amiright single issue voters?

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      22 hours ago

      Lol, I don’t see how this won’t be significantly worse than that. In fact, when the economy is down, that’s when it’s the easiest for the richest people to enrich themselves further, buying companies, properties, and things when people are forced to sell for bottom dollar. And all those people are little baby birds chirping at big daddy trump to destroy the economy, so they can buy up everything, thinking they can recover the economy and eat astronomical profits.

      That’s the plan anyway.

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        22 hours ago

        Ya know your comment reminded me that the great depression is what led to the New Deal which brought the most significant worker reforms and regulations in US history.

        So maybe a Great Depression 2 would suck, but after we might get New Deal 2: Electric Healthcarealo so…there’s that