Saturday, December 6, 2025

Trump insists he is ‘FIXING’ the affordability crisis, despite all available evidence indicating quite the opposite

A stylised, painterly illustration depicts a blonde young woman standing at a petrol station, rendered with the polished sheen of mid-century advertising art. She wears a bright red dress and a matching ‘Make America Great Again’ cap, her expression one of breezy, almost theatrical self-assurance. One arm cradles two paper bags of groceries; the other is lifted in a gesture of blithe resignation, as though commenting on the scene around her.  Behind her, a large sign declaims ‘AN ARM AND A LEG — BIDEN’S FAULT’, while the price board advertises petrol at $2.95, the lettering bold and deliberately simplified. Red and blue pumps flank the composition, and a discarded fast-food wrapper lies on the forecourt. The image blends kitsch Americana with pointed political satire, transforming a quotidian errand into a tableau of populist grievance and glossy pin-up aesthetics.
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{The Hill 6 December} ‘Trump says Biden to blame for affordability crisis: “I’M FIXING IT”’

Such an egregious falsehood—one that anyone who has set foot in a grocery store or gas station knows to be demonstrably untrue—nonetheless passes unchallenged within his circle, for his supporters will dutifully echo any absurdity, however brazen, so long as it serves the puerile objective of ‘owning the libs’. Neither he nor they exhibit the slightest concern for the welfare of the broader citizenry.

Trumpism has long since metastasised into a Christian-nationalist, predominantly white supremacist movement, determined to subject the entirety of the American populace to its tyrannical will. If Trump declares that two plus two equals three, one is expected—indeed compelled—to affirm that it is three. That is the trajectory upon which the former republic now finds itself.

And the millions who cast their ballots for this orange demagogue are receiving exactly what they sought: the persecution and marginalisation of all who fall outside their narrow, exclusionary tribe.

“The grocery checkout line will now be a battleground where state officials control what millions of Americans on SNAP can buy… directly from a playbook written by white plantation owners in the South.” {Baptist News 25 November}

Employers in the former US have cut over 1.1 million jobs in 2025, 54% higher than 2024; tech sector haemorrhaging fastest. {CBS News 4 December}

Elon Musk in hiding, claims he is the most vulnerable in the former US for assassination behind his former partner-in-crime. {IBT 4 December}

Ex-British PM Liz Truss resurfaces as a YouTube grifter, her new series pitched in earnest to American right-wing populists. {The Guardian 5 December}

Copyright 2025, Arthur Newhook.

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