He really doesn't care

But all his supporters still think he cares about them

The 2024 election was, in large part, decided by Americans’ wallets. Even though the economy was recovering from — checks notes — a years’ long global pandemic that brought everything to a standstill, many Americans didn’t feel as if they were part of that recovery. So they voted Donald Trump, who promised that — checks notes — prices would drop as soon as he took office and that we’d all be prosperous.

Except prices haven’t dropped. Everything’s more expensive. Trump’s tariff trade war drove up prices, with many of his supporters — checks notes — shocked that they were the ones who would pay for the tariffs, not foreign countries as Trump promised. Now oil and gasoline prices have skyrocketed, due to Trump and Netanyahu’s war against Iran. (A war that — checks notes — didn’t need to be waged.)

And how much thought does Trump give to the tens of millions of Americans struggling in these bleak economic times? “Not even a little bit.”

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