President Joe Biden's had a really bad week, and it seems that he changed his mind about talking to Americans on Super Bowl Sunday perhaps in another attempt to show folks that he's not really the memory-challenged, well-meaning grandpa depicted in the Hur Report.
Unfortunately for him, his handlers' decision to put out a short video decrying "shrinkflation" won't help his case.
While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same?
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 11, 2024
Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend.
I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it. pic.twitter.com/wL1NsEh78F
Cringe.
In case you couldn't bring yourself to watch it, Biden says:
It's Super Bowl Sunday. If you're anything like me, you like to be surrounded by a snack or two while watching the big game. you know, when buying snacks for the game you might have noticed that sports drinks bottles are smaller, a bag of chips has fewer chips, and they're still charging you just as much. As an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons have actually shrunk
I've had enough of what they call shrinkflation. It's a ripoff. Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products little-by-little and hoping you won't notice. Give me a break. The American public is tired of being played for suckers. I'm calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let's make sure businesses do the right thing now.
Sure, Joe, filming it in the White House theater really makes you come across like a man of the people. It's too bad his handlers don't trust him enough to let him actually hold a bag of chips and eat one while filming the commercial. Or hold a bowl of ice cream.
Seems as though Joe Biden's way of addressing the massive inflation that his terrible economic policies have caused - to blame corporations for families' ever-increasing grocery bills - is the same tactic he's used in every other situation in his life. Blame everyone else. Next thing you know, he'll be saying that corporate greed killed his son, Beau.
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