Voters who were grouchy about rising grocery prices during President Joe Biden’s administration should be throw-the-bums-out outraged about grocery inflation now, because (a) it’s worse, and (b) the Bum-in-Chief (and the chickenly bums who don’t assert their Constitutional power to stop him) is directly causing this worse inflation:
Food inflation has been growing since the COVID-19 pandemic, which shocked supply chains, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which affected oil prices, in early 2022. After a massive uptick, food inflation began to ease during the last two years of the Biden administration.
Between January 2023 and December 2024, “food at home” prices — grocery prices, essentially — on the Consumer Price Index increased 2.68%.
Since Trump regained office in January 2025, food inflation has increased 3.16%.
…Part of the reason for higher food prices is the war Trump started with Iran, which predictably closed the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil shipping route. The war has led to high gas prices across the country, and food prices have followed suit [Sky Chadde, “Food Prices Just Had Their Highest Month-to-Month Jump in Years,” Investigate Midwest, 2026.05.19].
President Joe Biden just had to navigate grocery inflation caused by factors outside of his control. Donald Trump is enacting policies that directly your grocery bill.
Creighton University’s Ernie Goss has been warning that the Trump Organization is bad for American agriculture and follows the economies of several breadbasket states including South Dakota’s — one of the slowest growing in the US.
Almost 57% of rural banksters are freaking out because the Rural Mainstreet Index fell to 45.7 in May from 47.9 in April and three quarters of them recommend no change to Federal Reserve interest rates. Farm equipment sales dropped to 18.2 marking the 33rd straight month below growth neutral or 50.0.
https://www.creighton.edu/economicoutlook/mainstreeteconomy
And SD Republican candidates are bragging they have Trump’s endorsement.
If that’s a good endoresement, we are soooo cooked.
GDP revised down to 1.6%
Inflation getting worse 3.8%– Highest in 3 years
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My MAGA friend asked me if I thought the Biden administration was really bad for the USA, and my recollection was that it was not bad, but even better than under Trump in so many ways. But I thought I would ask AI what was bad about the Biden Administration. It reported that inflation was a record high 9 percent under Biden. Wow, I thought what terrible things did Biden do that caused this inflation? Turns out it was the $1.9 Trillion 2021 American Rescue Plan (ARP), which resulted in a substantial increase in consumer demand for goods and services, which in turn caused prices to rise. And here are the terrible things that the ARP did:
– Issued up to $1,400 per eligible individual (phasing out for higher incomes).
– Provided enhanced federal unemployment benefits.
– Temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit, significantly reducing child poverty.
– Allocated $25 billion to help struggling renters.
– Provided billions in targeted relief for restaurants, childcare centers, and small businesses.
– Directed tens of billions toward COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and personal protective equipment.
– Provided funding specifically for the distribution, storage, and administration of vaccines.
– Expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act to make health insurance more affordable for working and middle-class families
– Dedicated over $160 billion to help schools and colleges safely reopen.
– Provided $350 billion to help states and local governments cover increased pandemic expenditures and mitigate lost revenue
Also Biden “signed the PPP Extension Act of 2021 earlier in March 2021, which extended the application deadline for the Paycheck Protection Program to help small businesses retain their employees.”
Wow, I wonder if MAGA really considers these terrible policies for the USA, or maybe has forgotten just how they benefited individually and as a community from that temporary inflationary period? Indeed, according to today’s RCJ candidate, MAGA and Trump worshipper, multimillionaire Toby Doeden, apparently is proud to have accepted federal funds during COVID to keep his own businesses open, but he, of course, simply hates Biden for causing inflation.
So maybe someone from MAGA can explain what comparable or even better policies has Trump spearheaded for the USA: Is it the wars, slush funds, destruction of veterans’ programs, tax breaks benefiting the wealthy, etc, that squirts a MAGA pickle or something that I am overlooking?
Maga’s are Stupid. They believe whatever lies Trump tells, every day! He bankrupted everything he ever started. He’s doing it to all of America now. What can you say?
Its entirely your fault Maga’s. Have a nice stupid day.
Biden and his admin spent over 2 years cleaning up the mess that Trump and admin left. Had Biden had another 4 years, I believe the trajectory of the economy would be soaring compared to now.
What’s happening in Washington is not governing, it’s grafting. Biden had his faults, but he was a decent man and actually cared for all Americans, despite our faults. He was also a humble man, taking the train to work as a congressman, and sometimes admitting when he should have done something different. He was blamed for a great deal of what Trump did wrong.
magat pols everywhere are saying gas prices are falling all over the country., If Joe Biden was bad for America, then someone needs to invent a new word for the ckuster f the felon/rapist’s regime has been.