During his 2024 election campaign rallies, President Donald J. Trump promised us this at a Bozeman, Montana rally on August 9, 2024: “on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.”
At a North Carolina rally on August 14, 2024 he promised to slash “energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum of 18 months” and “prices will come down … you just watch … they’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, within everything.”
And at a Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally on August 17, 2024 he made the same promises.
Over the next two months during his campaign rallies Trump continued to promise that he would:
• Get gasoline below $2.00 a gallon
• Cut the cost of a new home in half
• Put a 10% cap on credit card interest rates
• Bring down the cost of groceries and cars
• Will end inflation Check out these Donald Trump promises here: https://doggett. house.gov/issues/trumps-economic- promises-timeline Instead, this is what we got: 1. Food prices have increased by 3.1% and home groceries have increased by 2.4% under Trump, according to the 2025 Consumer Price Index.
2. The cost of housing (both home prices and overall shelter costs) increased in 2025, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
3. In January 2026 Trump called on Congress to enact a 10% cap on credit card interest rates for one year. He made that call a year after his election, not on “day one”, as he promised, according to America’s Credit Unions.
4. The inflation rate under Trump has fluctuated due to his tariff polices which have increased the cost of beef by 16%), coffee (up 20%), housing goods (up by 5-14%), forcing families to increase spending by $1,700 to $2,000 in 2025, according to the Center for American Progress.
5. Trump did not cut the cost of electricity. Instead, the cost typical American electricity bill actually increased in 2025, according to the Fulcrum.
We all know that gasoline prices have increased roughly $1.00 a gallon since the “War in Iran” (“excursion” if you prefer) began and will continue to increase as the war rages.
Trump’s “war of choice” has thrown the global economy into chaos. And if anyone truly believes that Iran posed any kind of nuclear threat to the U.S. before the war, I have some of that proverbial ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.
Each of us, in our own individual ways, understands the cost of living and its impact on our personal and business lives. We feel it and worry about it every day. It’s something we all have in common.
Trump promised us a gold mine. Instead, we got the shaft.
Jodie Sinclair is an award-winning writer who holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and resides in Bandera.
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