https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/12\/03\/the-affordability-con-job<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Affordability “doesn’t mean anything to anybody,” said President Donald Trump during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting at the White House, saying it’s a “fake narrative” and “con job” that Democrats manufactured to hoodwink the public.<\/p>\n
“They just say the word,” Trump added. “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody. They just say it\u2014affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything.”<\/p>\n
In classic Trump fashion, this is an about-face. Just a few days prior, he declared on Truth Social, “I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT” when touting falling drug prices.”<\/p>\n
“The word affordability is a Democrat scam,” he said. “They say it, and then they go on to the next subject. And everyone thinks, ‘Oh, they had lower prices.'”<\/p>\n
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