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.
Calm down people, just buy less pencils and we’ll all be fine
No need to be sarcastic about it. Nobody thinks buying fewer pencils is going to have a significant impact on your household budget. You also need to stop buying all those dolls, mocha-matcha holiday spice non-dairy iced triple espresso coffees, avocados including avocado-based food items, college educations, health care, iphones, child care, refrigerators, computer memory, and beef. Also, the point of Christmas isn’t gifts, so you should also be buying fewer of those. The right to Christmas gifts isn’t in the constitution anyway.
…all this has a lot more respectability if you say it between drafting up and bragging about plans for a ridiculously gaudy ballroom, scheming over some crypto grift, and throwing a little Gatsby-style party for the upper crust.
Hey also could you please have more kids, we need you to be having more kids
As a gay couple, my partner and I are doing our best to make that happen. Fingers crossed!