Let’s check in on a Trump campaign promise.
Energy Year-Over-Year Fact Check
- CPI Energy Jan 2025 1.0%, Now 20.4%
- CPI Utilities and Fuel Jan 2025 2.9%, Now 5.8%
- CPI Gasoline Jan 2025 -0.2%, Now 34.2%
- CPI Diesel Jan 2025 -9.3%, Now 69.7%
We cannot calculate how much Trump was wrong on diesel because to go from -9.3 percent to +69.7 percent while promising lower is undefined.
Promises Fact Check
- Clip 1: With the Trump economic plan, we will will cut your energy prices in half within – lock it down – you can get get very angry at me if we don’t do it – but within 12 months your energy prices will be cut in half.
- Clip 2: My plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months of taking office.
- Clip 3: Number one, your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half. That’s my pledge all over the country. To farmers, that’s my pledge all over the country.
- Clip 4: If you vote for me, I will cut your energy and electricity in half within 12 months. We’re gonna cut them down.
- Clip 5: And under my plan we will cut energy and electricity in half within 12 months. And that means your homes too.
- Clip 6: I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half. 50 percent. Five O, within 12 months of taking office.
- Clip 7. My plan will cut energy prices in half within 12 months. We’re gonna have energy prices for businesses, but in my opinion maybe even more importantly for the average household by 12 months from January 20th which is the day we go into office.
- Clip 8: I will cut the price of energy and electricity in half. Ready? 12 months from January 20, your electric bill, including cars, air conditioners, heating, everything. Your total electric bill will be fifty, five o, fifty percent less. We’re gonna cut it in half.
- Clip 9: And I will cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months of taking office. Fifty percent.
- Clip 10: The pledge that I am making now, and we’ve done this a little bit over the last month or so, we are going to bring energy down by 50 percent, five o percent, fifty percent within 12 months from January 20.
Fact Check Promises vs Results
- Trump promised numerous times to cut energy bills in half.
- Instead, the cost of energy rose from 1% year-over-year to 20.4% year-over year.
But that’s OK because it’s small price to pay and Trump knew it would happen.
We Were Very Aware
Well it’s just a little bit, so who’s counting?
Besides, didn’t Trump warn us all along that war was a possibility?
Let’s fact check that too.
I Am Not Going to Start a War
Trump: “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars…Under Trump we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all…I am the candidate of peace, I am peace.”
Obvious Points
Obviously, Trump didn’t say what he said.
Q: How so?
A: Trump is always right. And since he is always right, he never said what he said.
If this sounds confusing, please remember Trump is always right.
He’s a genius too.
I hope that clarifies matters.
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Only Ed Koch could ask “Howmidoin?” correctly.
But, but at least he’s not Kamala! He’s a WHITE MAN! And Kamala had a wierd laugh! And her campaign was pure socialism: Tax cuts for middle class people, expanding child care benefits for families, and expanding green energy jobs. No thanks Komrade Kamala! /s
Without spending cuts, tax “cuts” are /not/. They instead shift taxation from transparent accounting to murky taxation via currency devaluation, in turn affecting people in less obvious ways.
A week after trump passed his tax cuts (primarily for the wealthy — yes, worse), ZH ran a headline saying the USD devalued that week enough to entirely offset the benefit Trump claimed for the middle class.
“How is Trump doing in his efforts to reduce gas prices?” According to my local gas stations…NOT GOOD!
Stop ordering the expensive gas station sushi, you pre-madonna!
Then you can afford more fuel!
Everyone knew he was an ignorant Charlatan, but a bunch of morons voted for him anyway for whatever reason they rationalized to themselves
expecting rational policy from a democracy is crazy, since humans struggle with objectivity
same as it ever was. Hopefully better in future but no guarantees so plan accordingly!
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Liar: See Donald J. Trump
Grifter: See Donald J. Trump