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Media Tries Claiming Trump Doesn’t Care About ‘Affordability’, Fails Miserably

By ECONOMY

President Donald Trump met with his cabinet to go over the administration’s progress on inflation and its broader efforts to tackle the affordability crisis. But according to one media outlet, you’d think Trump called affordability “a scam” and brushed off Americans’ concerns entirely.

It’s the same old playbook: twist the president’s words to manufacture outrage, rather than acknowledge that his policies are actually driving prices down:

President Donald Trump downplayed consumers’ pricing concerns during a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

He opened his remarks touting his administration’s work on lowering prices even in the face of rising inflation which he hasn’t been able to stifle in 2025.

‘Our prices now for energy, for gasoline, are really low. Electricity is coming down. And when that comes down, everything comes down,’ the president said. ‘Affordability is a hoax that was started by Democrats who caused the problem of pricing.’

In actuality, consumer prices are up 3 percent year-over-year, an uptick that economists attribute to tariffs and other administration policies.

Nonetheless the president skewered his political rivals for decrying an affordability crisis under Trump.

‘The word affordability is a Democrat scam,’ Trump stated. ‘They say it, and then they go into the next subject, and everyone thinks, “oh, they had lower prices.”‘

The legacy media’s anti-Trump narrative machine is so committed to distortion that even basic context gets quietly scrubbed through stealth edits. Take Trump’s cabinet meeting remarks. In the clip the media latched onto, Trump wasn’t calling affordability “a scam” — he was calling out Democrats’ use of the word, which they’ve turned into a hollow talking point to justify policies that make life less affordable. He was criticizing their rhetoric, not dismissing the issue itself.

WATCH:

I mean, these are the facts we have to get out. You know, there’s this fake narrative that the Democrats talk about: affordability. They just say the word, it doesn’t mean anything to anybody, they just say it: “Affordability.”

I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability, no one could afford anything. The prices were massively high. [To Brooke Rollins] Do you remember, we took over eggs? You did a great job on that, Madame Secretary. Agriculture. Brooke. Eggs were four-five times higher than they had ever been. They said, “Don’t order eggs for Easter at the White House.” And we ended up doing it and we got the egg prices way down, lower than what they were before.

The word “affordability” is a con job by the Democrats.

He’s not wrong. Look no further than this week’s TN-07 special election. Democrat Aftyn Behn, who lost yesterday by 9 points, suddenly adopted “affordability” as her all-purpose buzzword the moment her own past comments started resurfacing — including her disdain for her hometown of Nashville, her sneering remarks about families and kids, and her enthusiastic support for Defund the Police. None of that has anything to do with affordability, of course, but Behn now wields the term as a shield against every criticism. It’s a textbook example of how Democrats drain a word of meaning and hide behind it when their own record becomes too politically toxic to defend.

The problem isn’t the concept of affordability — it’s the way Democrats weaponize the word. “Affordability” means something different depending on a person’s circumstances. Gas prices below $3.00 matter to most Americans, but not to someone who doesn’t drive. A single adult might view a one-bedroom apartment in a safe area as affordable, while a family of six needs a four-bedroom home. Both parties toss the term around, but Democrats use it as a political smokescreen rather than acknowledging where affordability is actually improving and why.

And that’s Trump’s point: Democrats deploy the word as a shiny distraction, a way to look busy while deflecting from the fact that it’s Trump’s policies — not theirs — that are driving real, measurable improvements. It’s a branding exercise, not a governing philosophy.

Vice President JD Vance cut straight through the rhetoric. While Democrats talk a big game and produce little more than slogans and stalled ideas, the Trump administration is pushing policies that let Americans keep more of what they earn and actually experience upward momentum. Affordability isn’t just about prices — it’s about living with security, stability, and basic public safety. Just ask residents of Washington, D.C., or Memphis, where Democratic leadership has left communities struggling with issues far more fundamental than campaign buzzwords.

The VP said:

If you look at every affordability crisis that is confronting the American people today, it is traceable directly to a problem caused by Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats. Why did homes get so unaffordable? Because we had 20 million illegal aliens in this country taking homes that ought by right go to American citizens. Why did tax bills get so unaffordable? Because Democrats were raising taxes while Congressional Republicans, under the president’s leadership, were now cutting taxes. Why did food get so expensive? Because we printed trillions of dollars and threw it into green scams that made our agricultural economy suffer while Americans were paying higher prices for food. On every single one of those issues I think we’ve made incredible progress. But it would be preposterous to fix every problem caused over the last four years in just 10 months. I think we’ve done incredibly good. But what I see over the next year; and you heard Brooke talk about “joy” and “gratitude.”

What I really think this season represents for me, and I think for the entire administration, is that we have now done incredible work to fix what Joe Biden broke. And I think the next year in American growth and American prosperity could be the best year that we’ve had in the United States of America. It’s gonna happen because we’re all working hard, it’s gonna happen because we have the greatest country in the world. But I think for Congressional Democrats in particular, if they want to talk about affordability, they ought to look in the mirror.

Perfection. And now you can already see what comes next: Democrats will pounce, flailing back and forth between condemning the justified takedown of narco-terrorists and bending over backward to coddle Afghan refugees brought in under their own broken vetting system.

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