Trump lied about food prices. Now he says it’s too ‘hard’ to bring down costs. | Opinion

There’s not much a president can do to wrestle food prices down. Did you think Democrats just wanted to lose the election so they chose not to push the magic ‘lower grocery prices’ butto

for his win in the presidential election, and he managed to trick enough Americans into voting for him by telling them he would lower the cost of these mysterious things called groceries. (Rich people don’t need to understand groceries. They just push a button and someone brings them snacks and meals.)

 it groceries! Bacon, lettuce, tomato. All the everything is so much higher than it ever was. And we’re going to bring that down, and we’re going to do it very simply.”

So a lot of voters thought, “Cool! I’m gonna go with the guy making that promise, even though he’s a decades-long con artist who lies about virtually everything.”