A Pennsylvania woman who voted for Donald Trump three times expressed disappointment with the cost of living, despite the president’s repeated claim that he’s lowered it since taking office.
“I’m very let down by that. Very, very let down, because I feel like it’s only gotten worse,” Jenique Jones, a credit specialist in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, told CNN’s John King in a special that aired Friday morning.
She told King that times are tough for the clients whose finances she manages. She hears all sorts of stories, from people who say their spouses have lost overtime to those who are no longer able to afford the cost of food.
“We changed presidents at the beginning of the year, and the guy who moved into the White House said that he was going to fix it several times; he said it would be easy. Has he fixed it?” King asked.
“Absolutely not. I’m definitely waiting for him to fix it,” Jones said.
Earlier this month, Trump defended his economy on Fox News after another one of his supporters confronted him about the cost of living. At the time, the president claimed, “We’ve got prices way down.”
Trump’s handling of the economy has even begun to draw backlash from his usual loyal GOP members, some of whom are slamming his proposal to send out $2,000 tariff “dividends” to American households next year.
Among those splitting from the president is MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who accused Trump of “gaslighting” Americans on prices.
“President Trump and his administration does deserve a lot of credit for lowering inflation and holding it steady, but that doesn’t bring prices down, and so gaslighting the people and trying to tell them that prices have come down is not helping, it’s actually infuriating people,” Greene said last week on “The Sean Spicer Show.”
However, despite Trump continuing to push lies regarding inflation and grocery prices, a brutal new poll by Reuters/Ipsos shows more Americans, including Republicans, are disapproving of the president’s handling of the economy.
