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After Promising To Lower The Price Of Groceries, Trump Now Admits He’s Powerless To Do So

Donald Trump just got caught in yet another lie.

You probably recall that during the recent presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly harped on the price of groceries in U.S. stores, vowing to do something about costs if he was elected.

Now, however, after winning the election by one of the narrowest margins in history, the prevaricating president-elect is admitting that there’s really nothing he can do to alleviate any financial pain Americans are experiencing due to inflation.

Speaking with Time as part of being named the magazine’s “Man of the Year,” Trump noted, “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.”

Keep in mind that in August, Trump said exactly the opposite, remarking, “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

He repeated the lie a month later.

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down. It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.”

And then there was this during an October rally in Georgia: “We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories back to America.”

Trump’s weasely vice president, JD Vance, also joined the lower prices chorus, telling voters in November:

“Kamala Harris broke the private-sector economy, and Donald J. Trump is going to fix it, and of course, whether it’s housing prices, whether it’s mortgage interest rates, whether it’s grocery prices, everything has gotten more expensive under Kamala Harris’ leadership. So again, we have to ask ourselves, do we want a president who broke the economy, broke the border, broke your wallets or do we want a president who has already fixed it and will fix it again.”

Another day, another lie exposed. And the lies are just starting. The next four years will be full of them. When something good happens, Trump will claim credit when he had nothing to do with it. When something bad takes place, it’ll be Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, or the fault of “the left.”

Donald Trump is a human bullshit machine. And he never runs out of fecal matter.

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Trump Says He’ll End Birthright Citizenship On ‘Day One’ – Even Though He Can’t

According to Donald Trump, he will immediately end birthright citizenship on “day one” of his administration, even though the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits such a move.

During an interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News, Trump was asked, “You’ve promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?”

“Yeah, absolutely,” Trump replied.

“The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens,” Welker explained. “Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?”

“Well, we’re going to have to get a change,” Trump responded. “We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.”

“Through an executive action?” Welker pressed.

“Well, if we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you. We have to end it.”

By way of explanation, birthright citizenship can indeed be found in the 14th Amendment, which reads:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.“

That could not possibly be any clearer. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. There are not two classes of U.S. citizens. If you’re born on U.S. soil, you’re an American, no matter who your parents are or where they’re from.

Of course, as anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the Constitution knows, Trump cannot end birthright citizenship via executive order or any other presidential action. That would require an amendment, which would have to be ratified by two-thirds of the states.

It’s also doubtful that even the six right-wing justices on the U.S. Supreme Court would agree to take away the right to be an American by birth.

Trump and his advisers may be able to pull the wool over the eyes of their poorly educated minions, but most Americans are not about to sit idly by and let would-be dictator Donald shred the law without putting up a fight.

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Trump Is Furious As He Watches His 2024 Margin Of Victory Continue To Shrink

When he spoke shortly after it became clear that he had won the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump tried to claim that voters had given him an overwhelming mandate by electing him with a massive victory.

But in the nearly three weeks since he was declared the victor, the disgraced president-elect is growing angrier by the second, according to The New Republic, because it turns out his “landslide” was little more than a squeaker.

Trump and his supporters have been pushing the landslide narrative ever since he defeated Harris. “We had a great election in the U.S.… Amazing what happened, we had tremendous success. The most successful in over 100 years they say,” he told Fox News last week. Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung claimed that “President Trump won in dominating and historic fashion after the Democrats and the fake news media peddled outright lies and disinformation throughout the campaign.” And Republicans throughout Congress have claimed the same.

Not so fast!

Since Election Day, Trump’s margin of victory has shrunk precipitously.

According to numbers released Friday, Trump only managed to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.6 percentage points. He also didn’t manage to get more than 50% of the popular vote. In comparison, Hillary Clinton beat Trump by more votes in 2016 than Trump did Harris eight years later.

In other words, Donnie is a two-time loser and only won because the Electoral College math worked in his favor.

All of this has put Trump and his surrogates on the defensive, with Trump transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavit lashing out at Politico and the New York Times for daring to report the truth about her twice-impeached boss. Here’s what she posted on Twitter:

“New Fake News Narrative Alert! Here are the ridiculous headlines from @politico and @nytimes this morning. The fake news is trying to minimize President Trump’s massive and historic victory to try to delegitimize his mandate before he even takes the Oath of Office again.”

That post reeks of defensiveness and massive insecurity.

Of course, what Trump fears most is being called an illegitimate president, even though that’s the very same thing he said about former President Barack Obama for eight years. He’s insecure and knows he’ll go down in history as one of the most incompetent fools to inhabit the White House.

But the numbers speak for themselves, and they tell us that the Donald is not exactly a hit with over 74 million American voters. That’s got to sting to an egotistical crybaby like him.

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Former Staffer: Some Republicans Already Consider Trump To Be A ‘Lame Duck’ President

A top staffer who briefly worked in the first Trump administration says there are more than a few Republicans in Congress who see Donald as little more than a “lame duck” president who can be challenged on many fronts because he’s weaker than he was during his first term.

Anthony Scaramucci explained that the abrupt withdrawal of Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney general proves that some in the GOP will not bow down to Trump and let him run roughshod over them.

“Obviously, a lot of the things that [former] Rep. Gaetz did was disqualifying, but I think the tide has changed a little bit,” Scaramucci said during an appearance on CNN. “I think there’s been a shapeshift by the Republicans in the Senate. You know, they see Trump as a lame duck. They know there’s one more election that he can have lots of influence on, which is the congressional election in two years, and I think they are fortifying themselves to block some of the things that he’s done in the past, and so the Trump season, you know, this is ‘The Apprentice: White House Edition’ season two. I think the cast members up on Capitol Hill are ready for Donald Trump this time. I don’t think they were as prepared as they are now, and I think the messaging [to Gaetz] was, behind closed doors: ‘You’re not going to make it, don’t embarrass the president and withdraw.'”

Other nominees could face the same disgraceful end as Gaetz, Scaramucci predicted.

“Now, the other questions are, you know, about some of these other candidates,” Scaramucci said. “Well, Pete Hegseth ended up having to do the same thing, and I will predict if there’s more information about Pete that comes out, he’ll be No. 2 to go that way. But I think Pam Bondi, by the way, will do well. Pam Bondi says the things that Donald Trump likes to hear, but she won’t do the things that Donald Trump likes to do, and so I think that’s someone that respects the system, and I think she’ll get it. I think she’ll get through.”

 

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WATCH: Combat Vet Destroys Republican Over Use Of American Troops For Deportations

Iraq War veteran Paul Rieckhoff dismantled GOP strategist Scott Jennings Monday evening on CNN during a discussion of Donald Trump’s plan to use members of the U.S. armed forces to round up and deport immigrants.

“It is really a sacred and terrifying prospect for anyone who’s been in uniform,” Rieckhoff explained. “You can send me to Iraq but to send me across from American protesters and situations like we’ve seen across America is wrought with a tremendous burden you’re going to put on men and women in uniform.”

That led Jennings to respond that the military would not be used against U.S. citizens, only illegal immigrants. “Which I think most people would agree is a national emergency, is a national security emergency.”

Jennings also claimed that National Guard troops had been deployed before on American soil, which led Rieckhoff to correct him: “To wildfires.”

“To the border,” Jennings insisted.

“To wildfires,” Rieckhoff said once again.

“No, to the border,” Jennings again noted.

Smiling, Rieckhoff replied, “In small numbers.”

Later in the discussion, Jennings told Rieckhoff to stop talking.

“You got to make your speech. Let me —”

Rieckhoff would have none of it.

“Is it a debate with you or am I answering questions with the host? Because every time I come on you want to sidetrack to take me into your talking points.”

“By all means have at it, my friend. You’re the expert,” Jennings sneered.

Rieckhoff finally asked Jennings, “Have you served in uniform?”

“I have served as a United States citizen,” Jennings replied.

“Have you been to the border?” Jennings asked Riekhoff, to which he replied he had not.

“Oh! So you’re not a genius. Go on. By all means. Have at it.”

Here’s the video: