Part of the disconnect here is that Trump has never needed to worry about high prices. He’s been rich his whole life, never wanting for anything. It’s likely that he hasn’t gone grocery shopping in decades, if ever. So while he may know inflation is a problem, he doesn’t feel it the way a regular person does.
He called himself, and still claims that somehow, he is a POPULIST. A man of the people, he has marketed himself. He swears that HE and only HE can place the needs and desires of the common man (this is Christian Nationalist America, so I can only say common man) as a Government priority. And as usual, because his base lacks proper education, the word Populist sounds doable, the correct way to be an American, they never ever challenged him on identifying as a Populist.
It mattered not to his base, and the newly minted base of 2024, that Trump was a billionaire, that Trump only hung with billionaires, and that a great majority of his Cabinet are billionaires, nope, because Trump said all the correct words, did the correct PR, and told the correct lies to his followers, so why question who Trump truly was and is?
As this article states, Trump never had to worry about the same things that most Americans do. He was never of the people. Most likely, he hated the same as the people, having that in common, but more than his bigotry and racism, the billionaire Trump and the common, everyday non-millionaire or billionaire have nothing in common. Sad when the truth has been smashed into your face like a pie, but you still remain blind to it!
