President Donald Trump sat down with his cabinet, and addressed the progress his administration has made on inflation and combatting the affordability crisis. But to hear one outlet tell it, the president thinks affordability is "a scam" and that he downplays consumer concerns about it.
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 anti-Trump agenda narratives and stealth editing by the legacy media know no bounds. Here is that portion of Trump's opening remarks. In them, Trump made it clear that it is the way Democrats use the word, "affordability," that renders it meaningless. He did not say this about the issue of affordability in and of itself, but Democrats' use of the word to achieve their own ends.
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Trump on affordability: It doesn't mean anything to anybody… The word is a con job by the Democrats pic.twitter.com/pRgh3ZAHa4
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2025
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. Case-in-point: In the TN-07 special election this Tuesday, Democrat candidate Aftyn Behn took up affordability as her buzz word when she needed to deflect from the exposure of her past comments about hatred of her hometown of Nashville, distaste for children and family, and her pro-Defund the Police rhetoric. Behn has since used "affordability" as her campaign platform and knee-jerk response to any criticism or efforts to expose her past stances, which had nothing to do with affordability, let alone sanity.
Tennessee has the chance to elect a true champion for working families in @AftynForTN.
— Jason Crow (@JasonCrowCO) December 1, 2025
I’m with Aftyn, and I hope you are, too. She’s the voice we need in Congress to lower costs, protect health care, and make life more affordable.
Election Day is Dec. 2! pic.twitter.com/6ncD1Hwxw6
um I’m just trying to make your groceries cheaper 🤷🏼♀️ https://t.co/JECqz0fUr3
— Aftyn Behn for Congress (@aftynfortn) December 2, 2025
The issue is the word and how manipulable it is. Affordability is different dependent upon the person and their circumstances. In a majority of America, gas prices are now below $3.00. But that doesn't matter to someone who doesn't drive a car. Renting a one-bedroom apartment in a safe neighborhood may be one person's idea of affordability, while a family of six may need a four-bedroom house. Both Democrats and Republicans use it as buzz word without giving it proper context or pointing out how affordability is being accomplished in areas that make a difference.
So, Trump is right: the Democrats use the word to enact their con jobs on the American people in order to look as though they are taking action, when what they are really doing is deflecting from the Trump policies that are making a difference in the short- and long-term.
Trump's number two, Vice President JD Vance, spoke truth to power on this one. While Democrats talk a good game, then produce nothing but wind and bad ideas, the administration is working hard to create policies and programs that allow Americans to retain more of their income, and in turn, see themselves prosper. That's just not about money in the pocket, but safety and security to live everyday life: just ask the citizens of Washington, D.C., and Memphis, TN.
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VP VANCE: "Every affordability crisis that's confronting the American people today, it is traceable directly to a problem caused by Joe Biden and congressional Democrats."
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 2, 2025
"We've now done incredible work to fix what Joe Biden broke."
"If they want to talk about affordability,… pic.twitter.com/SeFQ8jOgVN
Vance remarked:
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.
Mic drop. Now, watch the Democrats pounce on this while they swing like a pendulum between condemning the righteous killing of narco-terrorists and coddling Afghan refugees.
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