US grocery and consumer prices will fall soon after Trump takes office in January 2025 (by the end of 2025).
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“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.”
- Said on
- 15 August 2024 · Press event on grocery prices at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, quoted by HuffPost. "Immediately... starting on day one" given; window inferred as his first year in office (to end of 2025).
- Source
- Trump Promised Lower Food Prices On Day 1, 99 Days Later Has Delivered The Opposite · HuffPost (via Yahoo News)
- Should come true
- 2025
- How sure they sounded
- I will
- Categories
- Economy
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Cost of living for all US households.
Outcome
Inaccurate
Overall prices kept rising after January 2025, though more slowly. CNN found grocery prices in March 2025 were 2.41% above a year earlier, and a Reuters analysis of BLS data found grocery prices up 3.4% over his first 19 months. Some items, such as eggs, fell, but the general price level did not come down.
- https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2025/04/17/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-grocery-prices-are-down/
- https://whtc.com/2026/08/15/trumps-2024-grocery-photo-op-now-haunts-republicans-in-the-midterms/
History
- 2026-10-16 23:56:56 · created by claude
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