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Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

www.nbcnews.com Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

“During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.

Summary

Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for failing to address rising food costs despite campaign promises to lower prices "immediately."

In a letter, they accused Trump of focusing on mass deportations and January 6 pardons instead of tackling grocery inflation, which rose 1.8% in 2024, with egg prices up 36.8%.

Trump’s administration defended its actions, citing efforts to reduce inflation by cutting energy costs.

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Can we please fucking stop using slam in headlines already? It got old 2 decades ago.
- Yeah, time to slam that word out of existence!
  
  Slam the door on slamming
- I'm really tired of the phrase "make no mistake" too.
- Add Breaking to that list.

Just do the same thing they did. Print stickers of Trump saying 'I did this' pointing to high prices of things like eggs.
- It's crazy to see "price of eggs!" as a talking point appear on every major broadcaster a month before the election as the defacto rubric for economic strength. Then trillions invested in Western based AI gets obliterated within a week of the new administration taking office.
  
  Well since 50% of Americans don't own stocks and 93% is owned by the top 10%, eggs definitely affect the average person more.
- I wanted to do this but I gotta figure out how to print my own because the prices I've been seeing on those are ludicrous for stickers.

If anyone actually thought that piece of shit trump was going to do anything about grocery prices, they are fucking fools.
And I fully understand that this letter is just theater. Stupid, shitty, ineffective theater.
Fuck this whole fucking piece of shit grift called a government.
- Looks like Trump is way ahead of you since he asked everyone to resign or be fired later.

Reminder: Kamala's plan was to pass anti-price fixing legislation that we're not getting now
- But but but I was told kamala was exactly the same!
- Then they can say that now, then.
  Say what plans they would take and push for them instead of waiting it out.
  Let us know what they would do with power to make things better and hammer it that with power they would be fixing things and show they are being stopped.
  
  what?

Too bad "slam" just means some grandstanding in Congress with absolutely 0 changes to the situation. For the amount of money we spend paying various congress-critters to sit in a room kvetching at each other all day, it'd be nice if some of that turned into actionable changes.
If the Democrats want to get some credit fucking do something. As if the election results didn't display this, the average American is not entirely pleased with the Democrats. If they ever want to fill the White House ever again, we better see more than "slamming" happening.
- What the fuck do you expect them to do with a minority at every level? All they can do is try to get the message out.
  Trump has repeatedly made empty campaign promises, yet voters take the bait every fucking time.
  Pointing this out in real time is an important step.

COME ON
AND SLAM
AND WELCOME
TO THE
JAM!

JFC "Well we sent a letter! what else do you want from us?"
- "Why don't people like democrats anymore??"

Everytime I ask a republican what it is that Trump is doing that will help with prices they say 'wait and see!' like he is going to pull some sort of magic trick.
- Same "Oh there's a plan, it's just a long term one."
  I guess that makes sense, afterall, if he de-humanizes enough transpeople all our groceries will become free, that's just logic! /sarcasm
  
  He has concepts of a long-term plan.
  
  Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.
- Sounds a lot like "prayers and thoughts". They are a faith based people after all.
  
  “Now is not the time to talk about ~~gun violence~~ high prices.”
  /s
- For some reason the Republicans voters I know seem to think that their party is going to pass all the regulatory legislation that that Democrats were suggesting.
  I just don't understand them. How did they get this brainwashed? It's not just frustrating. It's depressing.
- The very second prices come down on their own, with nothing Trump did affecting it, he and his cult will point and say "SEE?!"

There should be billboards by now.

Republicans don't care when there's a Republican in the White House. Then it's just God's will.

S L A M
So fucking do something about it, Democrat dipshits
- Did you forget that the Republicans have control of all three branches of government?
  
  the democrats had plenty of time under biden to introduce bills regarding grocery prices. All I remember were finger wagging press releases and corporate give aways in funding.
  Edit: yup, they did nothing effective
  
  They can't really do anything to a filibuster.

He should be physically slammed to the concrete floor multiple times

What's with the fucking eggs, why does everyone focus on fucking eggs. There's more food than God damn eggs for fucks sake
- Speak for yourself heathen.
  I eat eggs.
  I would rather starve than eat something other then eggs.
  Meat? Gross. Vegetables? Ick. Sugar? Fuck off.
  Eggs. Just eggs.
  
  I hope they lock your egg loving ass up!
  
  Eggcellent
  
  eggscuse me?
- Just guessing, but eggs are a major staple in the average American diet that don't have a whole lot of comparable alternatives like grain or milk. So when there's a shortage or prices go up, people don't have something to replace it with so it's more apparent that they're missing out on something and that gets attention.
- It's a staple used in a fuckton of recipes in addition to being a go-to breakfast item. Many Americans stupidly ignore politics, but still pay a lot of attention to the prices of common goods like milk, eggs, bread, gasoline, etc. Folks are living hand to mouth because the billionaires hoard all the money.
- They are particularly high right now due to non economic reasons (disease).
  
  Everything is particularly high right now due to non-economic reason: oligopoly and greed.
- Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein
- Never mind, on the next election we'll vote for someone else, to lower the price of vegetables at that time
  
  Next election?
- Reminds me of the Republicans with the "raw milk".
  
  I wish they'd drink all the raw milk they can get their hands on.

SLAMMED
- How do I filter out those stupid meaning ngless words? Under fire, roasted destroyed... I just can't anymore according to headlines Trump should be molecular paste by now.
  
  THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON TRUMP!
  
  boringreport.org
  
  Don’t forget the “nevers” (“Never been the same again”, “changed forever”) and the infernal “question headline” (“Are aliens controlling our egg prices?”). AKA every YouTube title.
- C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! ULTRA COMBO!
  
  THAT AINT BERNIE
- Donald Trump PILED DRIVE'D HEAD FIRST INTO A FOLDING TABLE by Democrats pointing out his policy promises are a 50 ton diesel trunk full of horse shit. . On the one had it's a good criticism because this is what he cult thought he wasn't lying about it. On the other hand, he fully admitted his polices would cause run away inflation and fuck the economy to death in his ''When I said I'd ruin your life last, I lied'' secret sex metaphor dungeon 30 feet below Mar-y-lago.

How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?
- Depends, is Luigi involved?
- Journalists have ruined the word slam over the last couple of years
- Don't forget finger wagging and strongly worded letters
- Tyfys for slamming Trump.
- slamming alone is not enough i’m afraid. they also need to “rip” and “jab” them
  
  We need more forceful language like annihilates or obliterates or I dunno excoriate. I find any headline that uses this style of headline is generally crap though generally.
  
  Rip and tear.

I'm so tired of Democrats taking "the high road." The high road doesn't fucking exist anymore and y'all are just fucking everyone over. Trump is literally on the road to destroying this country and Democrats are trying to do things "the right way."
Fuck that shit. It doesn't work anymore. They're just accepting the premise of assholes. I hate to say it, but unless they fight back with the same kind of energy than they're fucked. If you try and do shit the right way Trump will just undo everything with a wave of his tiny hands.
- Mitch McConnall was able to block damn near everything Obama tried to do, and he was one senator.
  Democrats are weak on purpose, though, since they are paid by wealthy elites specifically to not be left wing. Until they all stop taking all corporate money, we will be stuck in the same "ratchet effect" situation that we've been in until something finally breaks and the government is dissolved one way or the other for some reason (military coup, violent revolution, etc.)
- I'm not saying the Democrats are losing fights on purpose and pretending that they're making an honorable sacrifice when really they're just taking their take-a-dive money on the way out, but if they were, what would they do differently?
  
  Hell, you don't even need to get that conspiratorial.
  There are two possible options. The Democrats are either corrupt, or stupid. Both are a disqualifier for giving them power.
- I'll go a step further. Motherfucker cancelled all federal grants and aid, AMONG OTHER acutely awful executive orders.
  How about Democrats "slam" Trump for dismantling our government and actively harming our nation from the first moment he was inaugurated? The time to fight about egg prices ended Nov 07.
  Let me see some of this energy Dems! (and from someone other than AOC and Bernie. WTH is wrong with the rest of you!)
  
  Because the people who voted for him think it's a good thing that he's cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle "big government" because they've been mislead into believing that the reason they're struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.
  You can't attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
  But the reason most of those people voted for him is because they are struggling financially, regardless of what the actual reasons are. They want him to come in and take a wrecking ball to the government in the belief that it will somehow make their lives better. I don't see how it's a bad thing to drive home, repeatedly, that they are wrong. That all of Trump's promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him. Because if you want his supporters to abandon him, you have to appeal to their sense of self-preservation. You have to remind them, over and over, that he's not making life better for them.
- As Jon Stewart put it on an episode of The Daily Show following the election, "The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers"
  
  It's more like the Democrats are playing Checkers, and the Republicans brought the glock and aren't playing games.
  
  I'd say the Democrats are trying to play Chess while the Republicans are playing Dodgeball.
- It’d be like going into modern warfare, standing in a straight line out in an open field, firing a single round of shots, then shouldering your weapons and waiting patiently for them to return fire. Platoon after platoon of soldiers are massacred by the other side, who are fighting dirty. The general keeps saying, ‘No fair, we’re getting slaughtered out there! But, once we’re all dead, people will realize that those other guys were being real assholes…then, who’s the real winner! Ha! Ok, boys, line up the next platoon and remember, don’t fire until you’ve reached the center of the field and for the love of God, only one shot each! …I mean, if any of the platoons ever eventually survive long enough to fire a shot. But, I’m feeling good about this next one! Charge! …I’ll just wait back here where it’s safe.”

Let's never forget when the undertaker slammed mankind on the floor from the top of hell in a cell

A rapist who lies to the courts has its base of voters shocked when he doesn’t cum through on his promises.

Call him a liar. To his face. To his subordinates. To his mother. To his cousins. Keep calling him a liar until he understands he is the Dishonest Don.
- He knows. He doesn’t care.
  
  And neither will his supporters.
  “ITS PATRIOTIC TO PAY $12 FOR AN EGG, IT HELPS AMERICA 🇺🇸”
  
  He actually does seem to care, a lot. It's why he always says fake news, if he didn't care about being called a liar, he'd ignroe it entirely. Losing control of the narrative drives him absolutely insane, it's why the whole "weird" thing got him so unhinged.
  
  I think he's such a narcissist that he doesn't know. Or convinces himself this is righteous attention. We need to take a play out of their playbook and not care. Keep repeating. Make it ruthless.

Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board
- Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.
  
  The Republicans control all three branches of government.
- Republicans are using quantum computers while Democrats are using Packard Bells with a 386 CPU.
- Apparently that's a valid move, they won
  
  I mean of course, because the game that's actually going on is real life and not chess. If you saw a guy playing chess by himself in the park and a dude runs up and let loose on the board, who won? The guy who just lost twelve and a half pounds or the guy sitting in it saying "hmmm, the Dennis Prager gambit?"
  
  Google "En Poosant"
  
  Since it’s not expressly forbidden in the rules, and the referee is friends with the republicans, (and also someone who has money riding on the outcome has promised to pay them), the democrats have no choice but to shrug and say the next game is going to be the most important one yet, while seating a player that has no clue how to play
- Trump flips the board, pieces go everywhere and exclaims, "I win! I'm the best at Checkers!"

Democratic National Committee, don’t just stick to your old tired playbook of telling everyone that Trump is bad and doing the things he said he’d do. It didn’t work last time.
DNC, start immediately telling all Americans why this is wrong, what you will do different with the executive power, and keep up that messaging in a media blitz to win back all the working class voters who didn’t show up last time. Get a plan now for who you want to run on your ticket, and push them into the spotlight to advocate for us with progressive policies that help the working class. I’m a dreamer, but for the love of all things good, please let them be an actual progressive.
“We are the Democratic Party. Democrats are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to build a better America.”
Really? Fucking prove it, then! Be the party of brawlers and stop maintaining “decorum”. MAGA is playing dirty because you’re weak and they know you won’t do shit. Fight for the working class like your mission statement alleges.
So tired of backsliding to the right on this tilted table.
- Dems serve the same capital as Trump. Never going to control inflation. It's a feature not a bug.
  
  Inflation rose globally and the US was able to do the biggest inflation reduction within the G7. I'm sorry we're not living on the starship enterprise in some comunal utopia and there are still imperfections in the world
- "Decorum", the most dangeorus word in American Paulaticks
- If only they were listening…
- I mean, it's pretty hard for them to do much when they never seem to have both houses of Congress.

Dude that top ring frog splash from Bernie took me by surprise, then the tombstone SLAM from warren

Meanwhile all lawmakers had gains in stocks larger than the average Joe. The fuck they care about prices
- I dunno. Anyone investing in tech or energy took a pretty big hit in the last couple days...
- You went to everyone lawmaker's house?
  
  Nah. I stay up to date with lemmy news posts 😄

despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”
It's was obvious that he's like any dictator will not fix anything.
- Sure, but you still want to call it out. Repeatedly.
  
  Call it out? Boring, tame, ineffective
  Slammed? Powerful, dominating, stronk
  
  ok.

When I read talking points like this, I think about: Who would they convince? I don't think many people honestly believe Democrats had a capable plan to fix these grocery prices in the first month of a Kamala presidency. Yes, Trump over-promised, and unfortunately, that was probably the right tactic.
I'm still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though. Sometimes when grandma clicks the "You have a virus" prompt for the 400th time you have to start blaming her.
Actually, the last important bit to me is who exactly is saying this. Recalling from memory, Elizabeth Warren once put forward a suggestion to require that 40% of a company's board be voted in by employees. It's very possible that with a less corrupt, profit-seeking corporate landscape we wouldn't be in this situation. So even more than Kamala she may have credit to blame others for such things.
- Did Kamala/Democrats promise to fix the food prices? Followed your election and don't recall them saying that, it is possible I could have missed it
  
  So this is the absolute batshit insane part of the Kamala/Harris campaign. If you looked through their published policy platform, yes they had plans to try and regulate corporate price gouging. However, they did not campaign on these plans, did not elaborate on those plans whenever the economy was brought up, and largely tried to deflect when asked about their plans by claiming the American economy is strong and had no issues.
  Kamala had plans. Somebody told her to keep her mouth shut, probably because it would scare off the donors they were trying to court.
  
  The reason Kamala lost is because nobody in the Democratic National Committee thought to say "We will raise your wages and break up the monopolies raising prices at the grocery store and the pump"
  Because the main DNC campaign donors are Billionaires and Lobbies, and well, see, that would eat into corporate profits. The Republican Billionaires however are very very happy to lie to get exactly what they want. So Trump won. Because, and I don't say this lightly, 30% of Americans are greedy gullible morons. And our political system is so broken due to vote suppression and the ignorant fact that population center votes count for less than rural ones.
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k
  https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/restrictive-voting-laws-brennan-report/index.html
  https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020
- I’m still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though
  I don't like it when people blame those who voted for Trump, like "if you voted for Trump, you should die". In working democracy though, it would be possible to cancel election, re-count votes anyway, to right away impeach Trump, etc. like in Romania:
  "Romania's presidential election canceled over TikTok disinformation investigation" - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/12/07/romania-s-presidential-election-canceled-over-tiktok-disinformation-investigation_6735508_4.html
  "EU investigates TikTok over alleged Russian meddling in Romanian vote" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v13nz202o
  "TikTok influencers flee Romania amid tax probe into their election role" - https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-tiktok-election-calin-georgescu-elena-lasconi/
  Also some news articles, just in case:
  "The Russian Disinformation Campaign During the Romanian Presidential Elections: The Perfect Example of a Violation of International Law?" - https://opiniojuris.org/2025/01/27/the-russian-disinformation-campaign-during-the-romanian-presidential-elections-the-perfect-example-of-a-violation-of-international-law/
  "TikTok pushes far right candidate content in Romanian election, Global Witness investigation shows" - https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/tiktok-pushes-far-right-candidate-content-romanian-election-global-witness-investigation-shows/
  TikTok and election disinformation:
  "TikTok still approving election disinformation ads in Ireland" - https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/tiktok-still-approving-election-disinformation-ads-ireland/

Honestly, it’s almost embarrassing. Democrats continue to fight using Queensberry whilst Trump et al are, again, acting with impunity. They’ve got to smell the coffee and take the gloves off.
- Take the gloves off right now and do what?
  Use harsh language? Encourage Democrats to engage in acts of violence?
  I understand your frustration of feeling helpless while the tangerine terror fucks everything and everyone up, but without control of the house and/or senate, there isn't that much they can do right now.
  
  Same thing I've wished Democrats would do for years and years: Learn from psychology and neuroscience that language and how you use it matters, then learn how to use language to improve their messaging.
  And then do it.
  Politics in a big country like this is like an arena show, and Democrats treat it like a university lecture hall. Play to the cheap seats! For example, compare how I read that Harris would "address health care disparities which disproportionately affect Black men" versus "death tax." Which one is more likely to reach Joe Six-Pack? Which one has more visceral impact? Which one is more, as they say, cognitively sticky?
  
  I think they need to be aggressive, publicly, with their highlighting of Trump’s “shortcomings”. Like billboards. Or interviews on TV. Or (ab)using privilege in the House. Etc. Just say stuff that’s true that they wouldn’t normally want to say. “Trump finger raped a woman”, “Putin’s lapdog”, “Pornstar fucker”, “Friend to pedophiles”.
  In your face shit that’s inappropriate. Or was inappropriate until Trump changed the rules.
  Just keep repeating it day after day, and like Trump, it’ll become part of the narrative through repetition.
  
  This is often my point. There's a major problem with the statement "Democrats need to do something in the house". And that problem is not with the second half of the sentence, but the first. "VOTERS needed to do something in the election." America is not just the DNC no matter how much we love finding scapegoats.
  Very very very tired of the circular logic used to blame them for losing an election to an imbecile, against promises two brain cells could have realized would never ever be delivered.

Yeah cuz dems really did a good job of holding down grocery prices and stopping price gouging
Fucking stop grandstanding and actually do something useful.
- You want the people who lost power to do something?
  
  Yeah i want them to actually put up a fight not just roll over and let trump tickle their bellies.
  But nah we will just get 4 more years of them saying "see we aren't as bad as that" even though they did fuck all when they had power except launch a genocide
- You see, when Democrats hold both chambers and the presidency they are powerless against their centrists, but when Republicans do the Democrats are also powerless to stop Democratic centrists from defecting and cancelling out the last 3 Republicans with a vague sense of ethics.
  Weird how that works.
  (The point is the government is thoroughly controlled by conservatives either way)

The con man who sells shoes, NFTs, launched a meme coin and bankrupted a casino was never going to lower prices on anything. Fools got played!

Coming through big time on some other day one shit though.
And just to be clear I mean all the bad shit.

Does anyone else have "Slam" on their BINGO card? That's my free space.

"I will drag your asses into prosperity and healthcare whether you like it or not."

And cutting energy costs will rid poultry farms of bid flu how exactly?
- New COVID (bird flu being ignored and all)
  Lots more dead people
  Less demand, lower prices!
  wait, what were we talking about again? Ah yes, killing more minorities.
  
  And that's where the model fails. Whatever new pandemic (or maybe USdemic only, as other countries still do vaccines) hits, there is a good chance it will hit those producing food the hardest - they are at the bottom of the chain, they have to work every day to pick and process food or it may go bad, and they cannot do this from the safety of the home office. Besides, the last pandemic has already shown that some employers consider protective measures as a waste of money. And if the new USdemic really is a bird flu variant (apart from the H5N1 there is now another strain H5N9), it is quite likely that it starts its foothold in the farming communities as a bonus.
  So food production is not unlikely to get hit hardest, which might actually completely wreck the "less demand" part.

These people were everyone's hopes LMAO 🤣

the state of our government: hot potato "i told you so" bout time we start seeing this game for what it is.

Yes, because that is what he's done wrong. Good job.
- It's not like we're limited to criticising just one thing.
- This is the only thing they can hammer him on that Americans will care about

But I thought the president doesn't control prices...

The DNC is that smug asshole whose entire TED talk is saying "We need to find new solutions" and then patting himself on the back for bodly going where others have already gone.

Oh hey look the Democrats are crying about something but not actually doing anything
- Hard to do anything in an elected government if you weren't elected.
  
  This would hold a lot more weight if they had bothered to do jack shit when they were in office.
  
  And they didn't get elected because they spent the last four years crying and (mostly) not actually doing anything.
  
  Roe v. Wade fell on Biden's watch btw
- Nah, I'm on your side. The Republicans are blatantly ruining this country and breaking the law and the best we can do is just say "hey stop" and then "slam" them in a nothing of consequence article.
- What exactly do you want them to do? What legislation can they pass when they don’t control the House or Senate?
  How do you expect a political party to solve a crisis caused by private industry? Should they pass legislation against bird flu? More regulations for the poultry industry?
  Since you are so smart, what should they do? And how can they fight the majority party that is antagonistic towards everything the democrats try to do?
  
  The Democrats can use Democracy. Require that corporate boards in America vote in their members through employee elections. It's a slim minority of power grubbers that would want to keep raising prices against the poor.
  By the way, the senator making this shouting proposed exactly that bill. It didn't make it anywhere, because people don't vote in senate majorities letting them pass such things.

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