How "groceries" define djt's detachment from working Americans [View all]

Story by Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone

"The cost of groceries, a word that I used a lot on the campaign," Trump said at a women's event last Wednesday. "It's like an old-fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word, a very descriptive word. The groceries are coming down."

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Trump almost seemed to take credit for the word during an interview with Meet the Press in December, after he'd won the election. "I won on groceries," he said. "It's a very simple word. Who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries."

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Trump believes there are winners and losers, and that just as the United States has "won" the game of geopolitics over the past 100 years, he and his billionaire friends have defeated the type of people who have to think about groceries in the game of life. In his view, the U.S. not only doesn't owe Canada anything, it would be stupid not to use its hard-won leverage to exploit and humiliate the lesser nation. Trump sees the federal government he now controls as the ultimate tool to similarly exploit and humiliate the millions of Americans he's bested, and he's spent the first two months of his second administration pulling every lever he and his advisers can find to enrich himself and his cronies at the expense of all of the undeserving losers.

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The message from the Trump administration is essentially that people should stop whining. The president and his Cabinet of billionaires aren't merely indifferent to the economic struggles of working Americans. They resent these working Americans for wanting to live a modest life - for wanting health care, for wanting Social Security, for wanting the richest nation in the history of the world to use some of its wealth to take care of its citizens.

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Corruption" may not be as "beautiful" of a word as "groceries" - but unfortunately for the millions of Americans Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to punish, it's never been more in fashion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-groceries-explains-trump-s-detachment-from-working-americans/ar-AA1Ca5HR

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-groceries-economic-pain-tariffs-1235308969/