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   In  sheepshagger wrote:   
   >   
   > President-elect Donald Trump is acknowledging it may be difficult to bring   
   > down grocery prices, despite making it a key tenet of his presidential   
   > campaign.   
   >   
   > In an interview with Time magazine, which named him person of the year for   
   > 2024, Trump said he nevertheless believes it'll happen through lower   
   > energy costs and supply chain improvements.   
      
   Democrats are holding replacement trucks hostage demanding worthless electric   
   semi-tractors sell so many in order to sell any ICE tractors.   
      
   Consumers are paying the price because of breakdowns and suspended truck   
   replacement cycles.   
      
   > Asked whether his presidency would be a "failure" if grocery prices don't   
   > come down, Trump responded it would not, while blaming the Biden   
   > administration for the way it handled the inflation that led to higher   
   > food prices in the first place.   
   >   
   > "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," he said in the   
   > interview published Thursday.   
   >   
   > "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," Trump said.   
   >   
   > Trump has promised to further increase American energy production. It is   
   > already at all-time highs.   
   >   
   > He also did not specify how he would fix any supply chain issues, pivoting   
   > instead to complaints about the Biden administration's incentives for   
   > electric vehicles.   
      
   As well he should because stupid Democrat policies have impacted transporting   
   goods.   
      
   > In fact, experts say Trump's much-talked-about tariffs proposals would   
   > likely exacerbate supply chain woes. It already happened during Trump's   
   > first administration, when ocean container shipping market rates spiked   
   > more than 70% in 2018 after he announced new tariffs, according to   
   > Reuters.   
   >   
   > “Trump’s import tariffs are ‘history repeating’ and will cause a   
   spike in   
   > ocean container shipping markets — with consumers picking up the cost,”   
   > Peter Sand, chief analyst at the shipping pricing platform Xeneta, told   
   > Reuters in September.   
      
   What Sands doesn't say is prices come down after the tariffs are removed.   
      
   > Food prices have indeed soared since the onset of the Covid pandemic in   
   > the spring of 2020, rising 23% overall during that period, much of which   
   > has coincided with President Joe Biden's tenure in the White House.   
   >   
   > https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/trump-says-hard-bring-grocery-   
   > prices-down-why-rcna183960   
   >   
      
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