With a major tip of my imaginary hat to Andrew Moran of Liberty Nation New, whose latest article has provided the information below:
The New Trump Hoax
Vera Bergengruen, a national security reporter at The Wall Street Journal and former Time journalist, greased the Trump hoax wheels on the social media platform X. She posted on the website:
“Trump in September 2024: ‘Vote Trump and grocery prices will come tumbling down.’
“Trump in December 2024: ‘It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.’”
Other popular left-wing accounts on X, be it the Krassenstein brothers and Harry Sisson, participated in spreading this partial quote. It eventually made its way to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who claimed on the website that Trump will not try to lower food prices. “Candidate Trump promised to lower grocery prices, but now it seems he isn’t even going to try,” she wrote. “While champagne corks pop at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Trump says that he can’t really lower grocery prices because it’s ‘very hard.’ Sad. It’s the start of a broken promise.”
Of course, social media users can often be mistaken, which is then quickly corrected by the stellar Community Notes team. As usual, it did not prevent the mainstream media from perpetuating the latest Trump hoax. Here is a list of some of the outlets reporting a part of the story:
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- CNN: “Trump admits bringing down grocery prices will be ‘very hard.’”
- MSNBC: “Trump promised to bring down grocery prices, now he says it will be hard to do.”
- USA Today: “Trump lied about food prices. Now he says it’s too ‘hard’ to bring down costs.”
- Vanity Fair: “Trump Promised No Wars and Lower Prices. Now He’s Walking That Back.”
- NBC News: “Trump says it will be ‘hard’ to bring grocery prices down. Here’s why.”
- Rolling Stone: “Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices.”
That claim, and those pile-on quotes from what passes for our mainstream media, sure do look pretty credible.
But that is only if you don’t check to see what Trump actually said – i.e. all of it, not just the part that was cleverly extracted without context.
Here is his actual quote (bold print is Mr. Moran’s):
“Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down. You know, the supply chain is still broken. It’s broken.”
Uh…..that changes things just a tad, wouldn’t you say? Like 100%.
Look, I don’t know what incoming President Donald Trump can do about grocery prices. And I don’t know if what he might try to do will or won’t work. But I do know yellow journalism when I see it. And what you just read is a field of yellow – brought to you by a far left senator who will never be held to account for this, and her media stooges who will dutifully parrot her lie, and then run cover for her if it, therefore they as well as her, are exposed.
I wonder how many SIPs out there are going to believe Trump contradicted himself here? Without admissions by the media who published the above lies, the answer, I suspect, is plenty of them. I pity them for their Stupidity, and/or Ignorance, and or Partisanship.
