That is all

if he believes what he is saying or if he is just knowingly lying.

Meanwhile, does he honestly think that people can't tell when the price of groceries or gas is higher? Obviously it doesn't affect him in the slightest if the price of milk is up or down. He doesn't go to the grocery store or the gas station.

Nope - time has finally caught up with these pathological liar

lying about anything and everything. I think he honestly believes there will never be any repercussions.

Back in 2016, you could tell that even HE was amazed that he could do or say anything and "not lose any votes". When he made that comment about shooting someone on 5th Avenue, you could tell he was honestly surprised, like he'd found some magic wand.

Meanwhile, I think he starts to believe the crap he says. He seems to have no grasp of reality whatsoever.

It seems to me that he is using lies more and more. It seems as if his creeping dementia reverts him back to the one thing he knows best: lying. Hence claims of 1600% price reductions.

It works until it doesn't. Whenever something is built out of fantasies and wishful thinking on the part of the believers, and it is continually added to, there comes a tipping point (think grains of sand added to a sand pile). With such a monstrous pile of crap that he has built, the coming avalanche will be eye-popping, I think.

maga won't transit from rabid tRump cult-member to "meh, he's good but not that good." It will, in a rush, go to "He lied to us and is a worthless piece of shit."

His broken Epstein promise has peeled away a few and has shaken the core of maga even as they still support him. But economics will be his downfall.

I don't think he realizes that anymore, though perhaps a very small part of him knows it can't possibly last.

I agree about his rabid MAGA supporters. Once the magic is gone, the spell broken, he won't be able to get it back again. They are full of pent up rage and they will easily redirect it toward him for betraying their trust.

conscious effort or if he happens to do it accidentally. He literally lies upon exhalation. That's how much a part of his natural state it is as is with every psycho/sociopath.

The only reason I mentioned sociopaths is they are suspected to have developed the disorder with some influence from society.

Psychopaths, and I believe that he is one, are as Lady Gaga would say, born this way. Which goes so far as to suggest genetic and neuro structural with physiological components. But I digress.

Basically, he's pure evil.

I have first hand, long term knowledge of dealing with these deviants and I am extremely worried about us all.

I am not sure that there is a firm distinction in his case. An actor in character believes what they are saying. A pathological liar creates alternative realities for themselves. And on the other hand, Krasnov has always seemed to believe that if he says something often enough he can bend reality to his will - the crowd sizes for his inauguration v Obama and the hurricane sharpie affair are examples.

Meanwhile, a really good liar can convince himself. In his case, he has become so delusional, maybe he thinks he has some god-like powers and whatever he says becomes truth. Really dangerous.

give him thumbs up on everything he wants to hear. He has no interest or desire to check the facts for himself.

And "facts" aren't part of the script that he is writing in his head. It is all performance for Trump. He lives in a make-believe world of his own creation.

but apparently the American press still doesn't know it. He should be flogged brutality every day.

14.99 yesterday

maybe i don't understand "up" from "down?'

Left from right or right from wrong.

Little donnie don’t know diddly squat!

At our local Target, the price of a 7 oz jar has increased but its still around $10.50.

i still have an old 8 oz jar in which i keep sweetener, so nestle has already pulled that shrinkflation stunt

walgreens is usually cheapest in my neighborhood.

save usually $2 or so. if i hadn't been out i usually wait and get 2

Maxwell House coffee I've bought before at $11.99 was $15.49. I bought two canisters figuring the price will jump even higher in the coming months. My paper products--TP & paper towels--were up as well, four and five dollars.

Yeah, thanks King Donald. You're the man!

Who does this delusional dip shit think he's fooling?

and down by a $1.40 from July 2022.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/

We should stick to the facts, especially when folks who drive know what gas prices are and have been.

We pay an additional tax here in Chicago, though, both the city and Cook County assess tax on gasoline that drives the price up. I can get it across the state line in Wisconsin for 80 cents less, but it drops about 35 cents just getting out of Cook County.

When Biden left office, gas was 3.29 at both the Citgo station across the street from my building, and at the BP a block down the street. It's 3.79 at the Citgo and 3.69 at the BP today.

Though California fuel prices (and West coast in general) are influenced by the refiners more than elsewhere. Petroleum fuel prices haven't skyrocketed because there's more than enough supply of crude to meet demands even though refining costs have gone up.

At its peak in June 2022, it was well over $6.40 a gallon.
https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA

A quick look up on Gas Buddy shows gas runs from $3.75 to $4.89 in my area. The $3.75 is at a Union 76 station, The next lowest is $3.89 at Safeway, AM PM and Costco.

The base will continue to genuflect, but the 10 percent or so of persuadables out there will not.

And is passing those increases down to the consumer …

Price of my usual coffee went up 25% already , and I expect it to double that soon.

😠



✌🏻

I can't remember seeing it this high.

and he sure as hell isn’t setting foot in a Walmart to find out.

From this administration.

"In other words, almost a third of the prices going into the CPI at the moment are guesses based on other data collections in the CPI."

- Apollo/Slok

www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-...

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-07-28T11:38:08.954Z

Meanwhile, if the DNC and/or state Democratic parties can't make billboards, memes or advertising campaigns out of this, why do they exist?

It's like he hung a "KICK ME!" sign on his necrotic ass in letters of flame 50 feet high.

Fuck up the data collection process.

Trump talking out his ass. If the man's lips are moving, he's most often lying.


https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/

The inflation rate became an economic factor in 1929. The last year it is was negative was 1954...

https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-rate-by-year-7253832

Quintanilla is a thoroughly professional CNBC host who keeps things moving on his show and keeps his personal feelings and inclinations well hidden. I had no idea of the orientation revealed on his Bluesky feed.

“.. Durable goods have risen in price by 1.7% so far year to date. Other than the depths of the pandemic, that's the strongest 6-month rise in #PCE durables prices since 1987.”

@ernietedeschi.bsky.social

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) 2025-07-31T12:48:41.572Z

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-07-31T11:11:27.741Z

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

— ProPublica (@propublica.org) 2025-07-31T10:40:42.999Z

You can tell he has never set foot in a grocery store. Prices are not down. In fact gas just went up in area.

he says something and they nod their heads and say "YES! I SEE IT NOW!"

I sure don't. Prices are a little higher every time I go to the store. Literally, every single time.

Unless MAGATs are completely lacking math skills, how can they not see that?

Or they blame Democrats for whatever reason.

the wages for blue collar workers are now as high as in the sixties. Quite the miracle when businesses are even afraid to hire because of Trump's foolishness.

only because he said so.

My mom tolerates a MAGA friend who believes everything that comes out of that serpent's mouth despite any factual evidence to the contrary. They refused to speak to each other for 2 years, then her friend's husband tragically died and my mom was there for her. But this friend has started again with her MAGA propaganda and it's driving us all crazy. She's BATSHIT beyond redemption.

They are all so afraid of him. MAGAts just continue to blame Biden. What a world we live in.

They're forced to publicly support all his delusions, knowing Trump will be glued to the tv watching their perfomances, ready to give them the hook if they say something he doesn't like. Their only job is to portray Trump in the most hagiographic terms possible, insist all his lies are true and insult the media if they challenge their lies.

And most still fall for his BS

They are the ones who needs their heads checked. He will never lose support with roughly 25% of the base so long as american media continues to repeat his lies, unchecked.

STFU, please. We are so over your lies

Some staples came right down in december, as many staples had manipulated price increases during the 23-24 election season. But by now all his bad policies are hitting. The only stable price is maybe gasoline. And that is due to declining demand and the Saudis increasing production as they have low costs to pump.

oh, silly question, he doesn't... and he lies like most people breathe

Up 42.00 this month over the same billing period last year.

Up 42.00 this month over the same billing period last year.

Our electricity prices have gone up quite a bit in Ohio, at least a third if not half more, in the last year.

This is clearly a form of mental illness. Is it mass psychosis??

TSF is talking out his ass.

As others have said, spend ten minutes watching fox news or listening to rw radio and you'll see why. Maga sheeple are perfectly willing to go down with the ship.

With just me, my grocery bill is close to $300 a month with a few non-grocery items. I am not extravagant in my eating habits either. A bottle of wine here and there. But mostly produce, lean proteins, health fats, vegetables, ingredients for some recipes I make, and that is it. I make a COSTCO run about once a month. That comes close to $125 a month, which includes non-grocery items that last me months.

TACO Don does not live like the rest of us do and have to watch every penny we spend on necessary basics, with little to no extras that make life worth living. A bag of Costco Kirkland brand ground Medium Roast coffee lasts me twice as long now because I make a pot of coffee every 2 to 3 days and I put if in the freezer to maintain flavor and freshness.

Medications costs are up. Utilities are up. Gas prices are over $3.25 per gallon. EVERYTHING costs more. My Renter's Insurance went up $3.15 this quarter. May not seem like much, but it adds up in the end. Thank goodness the car was sold before my husband died. Car insurance would have gone up more than $10 a month and with no accidents or claims made in many years. Drug co-pays are up as well.

He doesn't just tell ordinary lies, those are simply things that are untrue. With Trump his statements are usually (almost always it seems) literally the opposite of reality. That's a special (delusional) kind of lying.

The price of a pound of ground beef just passed the Federal minimum wage.

... he's lying. And his seated pose is his biggest tell.

With that statement

When Trump was coronated, I put together a list of data sites that have economic data:

Unemployment - 4.1% 12/2024
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_unemployment_rate#%3A~%3Atext%3DBasic%20Info%2Cmonth%20and%203.80%25%20last%20year.

Consumer confidence 104.1 1/2025
https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence/

Inflation rate 2.9% 12/2024
https://usafacts.org/answers/what-is-the-current-inflation-rate/country/united-states/

Energy Prices 1/30/2025
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/prices.php

Food prices - too numerous to list - but here, here and here are some examples
https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/averageretailfoodandenergyprices_usandmidwest_table.htm

Does this mean that the pharmacy is going to pay you 14x the original price to take the medicine home?

Link to tweet

Apparently the desperation for access trumps the insistence for truth.

2-3 months ago. The average increase in price has been about 25%. Honestly, prices on the things I buy regularly have gone up more in the past 2 to 3 months than they did over the entire 2 previous years of 2023 & 2024.

Says the asshole who has most likely never been inside of a grocery store or had to fill gas in a vehicle in his entire bloated, worthless life.

The U.S. taxpayer does not pay for the personal groceries of the president or for the groceries of the president's family. Presidents pay for their own groceries. Taxpayers pay for state dinners and official government functions.

He is still a liar.

So when he has dinner at his properties, and he pays the bill, who gets the money?

not down and in fact many prices are up, like coffee, beef, chocolate to name a couple things.

... used to be $7.99. Now, I'm lucky to get it on sale at $11.99. I guess Crooked Donald thinks nobody in the US drinks coffee.

It was $8 per pound. We're officially priced out of beef.
Currently, we are using a lot of ground turkey. It can be spiced to taste a lot like beef, and it's not nearly as greasy.

Yes, some things have come down from the highs, but not back to where they were (not expecting that; some inflation is a given.) For reference, I've been shopping there for 25+ years and I have a decent memory. Eggs are better but beef is sky-high. Sale prices don't go as low as they did 6 months ago. Detergent is going up, so are frozen foods, especially fries.
Gas is relatively unchanged, with the usual ups and downs, energy prices seem to be going up (gas, electric). Have been holding off on buying a new dishwasher, but that will probably cost us, too, once tariffs kick in (assuming they do )

higher than ever and creeping upward, more shelves are empty than ever before.

$45 for the two steaks. I just checked the price per lb and it’s $20.76 today.

It was enough steak that we had leftovers, which I used the next day in a big salad.

I do a big shopping once of a month and buy 2 or 3 of the same items - sometimes more - depending on what I’m low on. I was low on coffee so bought 2 25.9oz cans of Great Value (we are not picky coffee drinkers.) $13.44 today and was the same price when I bought it a few weeks ago.

I don’t normally check prices of things I buy, but the price of the ribeyes definitely stuck out.

I buy most of my meat and poultry at a butcher shop. Last week I bought 4 bone in chicken thighs, 6 burger patties and two bone in medium sized pork chops. The total was $31.00 which I think is very good price.

No idea what produce costs at the supermarket because we have a CSA and also go to farmers market and farm stand during the summer/fall.

Gas in my area has definitely gone down since January. Lately, it goes from between $3.10 and $3.15 - though I pay $3.05 at the Valero which gives a $0.5 discount if you pay in cash. Tbs, last November, when we were in CT we filled up before leaving and it was $2.89.

As inflation inches higher and consumer prices climb, the president is resorting to a familiar tactic: He’s making stuff up.

As inflation inches higher and consumer prices climb, Trump is resorting to a familiar tactic:

He’s making stuff up, pointing to grocery prices that exist only in his imagination. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-31T17:48:27.128Z

This week, the disappointing news continued as the Commerce Department reported the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index — a metric that’s closely watched by the Federal Reserve for evidence of inflation — is also climbing, and as The New York Times reported, the data represented “the latest sign that President Trump’s tariffs are starting to bleed through into consumer prices.”

Then Trump sat down with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine and made a rather specific claim, not only about the key economic issue, but about his perceived successes.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc upoypvlxudsiv4pzbi5jtwf/post/3lv7g3qgdzs2s

Link to tweet

....But reality won’t budge. As the Trump administration’s own data shows, grocery costs have gone up since the president returned to the Oval Office, not down.

A couple of weeks ago at a White House event for a Republican audience, Trump said Democrats “lie” when they say the prices of food and groceries have gone up, but as a CNN report noted soon after, “Nonsense. It’s correct, not a lie, to say overall prices, grocery prices and food prices in general are up during this presidency.”.....

Throughout last year, then-candidate Trump was repeatedly asked about his plan to lower consumer prices. Common sense suggested he would’ve prepared at least some kind of coherent answer, but that never happened. He simply said it would all work out wonderfully once he returned to power.

As prices climb, the president could acknowledge the facts and perhaps even accept some responsibility, but he prefers to play make-believe.

That'd be like 140000000 people.
Big Manly Man With Tears Streaming Down Cheeks: "Impressive numbers there, sir! We've never seen numbers like this!"

His minions believe it because he said it on "Truth" Social.

His followers are the ones paying the prices, like all of us. Is he gaslighting them into believing higher prices are actually lower prices?