Trump backtracks on vow to lower grocery costs

Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that he likely cannot lower the cost of groceries—a key promise of his campaign that helped him get elected despite the fact that he faced multiple criminal indictments.

"Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard," Trump said in his rambling and incoherent interview with Time, which is helping to sanitize the felon-elect by giving him its “Person of the Year” award.

Trump went on to spew a bunch of gibberish about ports in Palos Verdes, California, and how fixing the supply chain there will lower grocery costs—at least, it seems like that was his point. His answer is so inarticulate it’s hard to follow.

Buckle up, here’s the rest of his grocery response:

I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down. You know, the supply chain is still broken. It's broken. You see it. You go out to the docks and you see all these containers. And I own property in California, in Palos Verdes. They're very nice. And I passed the docks, and I've been doing it for 20 years. I've never seen anything like it. You know, for 17 years, I saw containers and, you know, they'd come off and they'd be taken away—big areas, you know, you know, in that area, you know, where they have the big, the big ships coming in—big, the port. And I'd see this for years as I was out there inspecting property and things, because they own a lot in California. And I look down and I see containers that are, that are 12, 13, 14 containers. You wouldn't believe they can hold each other. It's like crazy. No, the supply chain is is broken. I think a very bad thing is this, what they're doing with the cars. I think they lost also because of cars. You know, there are a lot of reasons, but the car mandate is a disaster. The electric, the EV mandate.

“A month after the election Trump admits his promises on voters' top issue were lies,” Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia wrote Thursday in a post on BlueSky. “He will not lower costs, in fact his plans will lead to Americans paying higher prices.”