A new survey has found that Americans are being squeezed by higher prices as they head into the holiday season, forcing them to cut back on gifts and delay purchases because of Donald Trump’s faltering economy.

The Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that a vast majority of U.S. adults have noticed increased prices for groceries, electricity, and holiday gifts in recent months. Roughly half say it is harder to afford presents, and similar numbers say they’re postponing big purchases or trimming nonessential spending more than usual.

Those bleak findings come as Trump has been downplaying concerns about the state of the economy, while simultaneously urging families to scale back on Christmas presents for their children. At a Pennsylvania event on Tuesday, he told supporters, “You can give up certain products,” citing “pencils” as an example before turning to children’s toys: “You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter.

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      When he dies …and folks start saying… Oh I never liked or supported him .

      You know while the maga flag burns in their fire pit

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        They are going to be building lifeboats just like they did after W.

        Remember the sudden appearance of people saying they were in this non-existent party called the “tea party” (well, originally, they called themselves the teabaggers until they got sick of liberals like Maddow pointing and laughing at them until their sides hurt. The people that came up with that name thought they’d be pulling a fast one on the libs and find another way to own them, but when it made them look GAY they pulled the ripcord on that) and a huge influx of all these “independents” that never even heard of this W guy and gosh, they don’t want to talk politics or nothing, because both sides, ya’ll.

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        The networks are going to have to blur that at some point here. Unless he gets a merkin or grows a neckbeard to make it more 70s style.