Trump Suddenly "Cares" About Affordability Now? The Hell He Does...
It's another presidential pivot!!!
Please support this work by becoming a paying subscriber. This newsletter is free and will always remain free, but it still takes time and effort to produce. Your support means everything to me. For just $5 a month or $50 a year (a 17% discount!), you can keep the Opinionated Ogre going. Thank you!
Trump and his regime of murderous fascists were already peeing their diapers over the midterms. Now, they’re going to be in a full-blown panic. How do we know? Just listen to them. After weeks and months of “Let them eat cake!”, the regime is suddenly deeply concerned about the common man:
Top Trump political adviser says president will focus on affordability going forward
Fresh off Democrats’ clean sweep of the 2025 off-year elections, President Donald Trump plans to refocus his political messaging on affordability, James Blair, the political director for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and the RNC, told POLITICO in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
“The president is very keyed into what’s going on, and he recognizes, like anybody, that it takes time to do an economic turnaround, but all the fundamentals are there, and I think you’ll see him be very, very focused on prices and cost of living,” Blair, who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff, said in an interview on “The Conversation” with Dasha Burns.
Who the fuck do they think they’re kidding? Besides Chuck Todd and Chris Cillizza, of course.
I swear to god, the first article I see claiming that Trump is “pivoting” towards the economy is going to make me vomit. Trump is not keyed into what’s going on. He has no fucking idea what’s happening in this country because he’s being fed propaganda by Stephen Miller and Russ Vought. He’s a puppet suffering from severe dementia.
It should be noted that in the run-up to Tuesday’s elections, Trump was not out campaigning. The press failed to mention this. Was he too busy to help his party hold on to power in critical elections? He certainly had all the time in the world to play golf and tweet about his brand-new marble bathroom and obsess over his gaudy new ballroom. He definitely had more than enough time to throw himself a tacky Great Gatsby party in Florida.
But no campaigning. Trump LOVES to campaign. It’s what he lives for, but he was hardly out there helping Republicans win lose.
One might suggest that’s because Trump is no longer capable of sustained campaigning. Just the occasional public appearance. Good luck with the midterms, fellas.
Back to being a puppet. Trump, himself, has no real ideology. If he were actually paying attention, he might actually do something about affordability because he, personally, cares about what makes him look good or bad. It might also help if he actually had the most rudimentary understanding of how the economy worked. Or math. Or anything at all.
But Trump isn’t the one calling the shots. Not really. Tariffs weren’t his idea. The shutdown wasn’t his idea. Gutting healthcare wasn’t his idea. None of it was his idea. Everything destroying the economy came from Project 2025 and Stephen Miller’s white nationalist purge. They will not allow Trump to undo their life’s work and that would be the only way to deal with the affordability crisis we’re in.
Instead, what we’re going to see is the regime making token gestures and then lying nonstop about how absolutely AMAZING everything is. They were already bragging about the most incredible economy of all time until the damage became so severe, they gave up and said, “Eh. Wait until next year. Things get better. We swear!”
Now they’re back to swearing the economy is amazing. Well…OK. That’s the same mistake Biden made with a crucial difference: The economy was actually improving under Biden. Just not fast enough and not evenly enough. Affordability was a problem and Biden/Harris were punished for it.
Under Trump? The economy is crumbling, specifically because of Republican policies. Policies they’ve been bragging loudly about. Devastating manufacturing. Killing renewables and increasing the price of electricity. Cutting healthcare and the social safety net. All things the regime is very proud of.
It’s impossible to point at Democrats or trans kids or immigrants or Canadians and blame them. Everyone can see what’s happening and who did it. Worse, they can see Republicans ignoring the damage and crowing about how awesome everything is. They don’t just seem out of touch; they seem completely psychotic.
Slapping a few band-aids on won’t fix anything and will end up being even more insulting as Vought and Miller continue their destruction of the country. It’s not like Trump has the power to stop them. He’s not in control.
Did you know the Opinionated Ogre has a weekly podcast? It’s true! New episodes every Thursday! Catch the latest episode here:
Now, it’s really important to understand how the next year is going to play out.
No matter how many doomers say the midterms won’t happen, everything Trump and his lackeys say and do tell us otherwise.
If they were capable of rigging the voting machines, Tuesday’s elections would not have been so brutal. Democrats would have won, but it would have been a moderate win. No one controlling the machines would have allowed such an overwhelming beatdown.
This cannot be repeated enough: A stolen election has to be plausible. After the absolute slaughter on Tuesday, there is no plausible scenario where the GOP doesn’t lose the 2026 midterms. It cannot be sold to the public as a reasonable outcome.
After Pete Hegseth’s and Trump’s comically stupid gathering of the military’s top leaders, any possibility of a military coup is gone.
The generals and admirals are not going to betray their oaths for a clown and a senile mental patient.
Stephen Miller’s private army won’t be ready, either. ICE can’t find enough able-bodied Nazis. Also, the ones they’re finding are so fucking stupid, they’re failing open-book tests. Read that again. They cannot pass a test where they can look up the answers.
ICE is so desperate for bodies, they’re looking into hiring bounty hunters because they can’t find enough racist white men to do the job.
You think they’ll be capable of overthrowing an election in 12 months? They’re in court right now trying to cope with the horror of a sandwich being thrown at them.
So no, ICE will not be large enough to do a goddamn thing to the midterms. Besides, what would their legal rationale be? Are the voting machines undocumented? Fuck off.
The midterms are coming. Pay attention to what the regime does, not what they say. Everything they do for the next year will be panic and desperation and flailing to avoid the coming tsunami. Tuesday was just the beginning. Tuesday was the water pulling away from the shore. In the distance, those aren’t mountains. They’re waves. Our waves.
The regime is afraid because once they lose control of the House and the Senate (and they will), the investigations begin. Their fascist plan to end democracy grinds to a halt without a compliant Congress. They will not be able to cement themselves into power before the 2028 election, and another violent coup will not succeed. They only get one bite at that apple.
After that? It all goes downhill very quickly for the criminals of the Trump regime and all of their collaborators. So, yes, expect lots of noise about how the regime suddenly cares VERY deeply about affordability. But watch how everything they do is geared towards interfering with the midterms instead of actually delivering on their promises of a stronger economy.
Fascism is never about improving the world for the many or even for the “chosen people.” It’s always about breaking everything and enriching the rulers at the expense of everyone else. The run-up to the 2026 midterms is going to prove it.
I hope you feel better informed about the world and ready to kick fascists in the teeth to protect it. This newsletter exists because of you, so please consider becoming a supporting subscriber today for only $5 a month or just $50 a year (a 17% discount!). Thank you for everything!
Fascism hates organized protests. They fear the public. They fear US. Make fascists afraid again by joining Indivisible or 50501 and show them whose fucking country this is!
The Blue Wave is here! There are 361 days until the most important midterm election in American history. The regime is afraid and they should be. We are legion and they are weak. Stay strong. You are never alone.
Preznit ShitForBrains could start by making SNAP available and healthcare affordable. That would show he is serious and not just bloviating.
Donald Trump does not care about affordability for the average American. He may pretend he is in this moment but it won’t last.He is only interested in the wealthy.