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How Trump's $45 million DC parade will lower food prices
President Trump promised to get those grocery prices down. He's a master dealmaker, so he said prices would drop on Day 1. I've noticed that didn't happen, since I'm still paying $10 for a box of Patriot-O's cereal ("It's like an insurrection in your tummy!") and alternating which kid gets to eat dinner each night.
Trump spending millions sending troops to LA will lower food prices
But that's all part of Trump's genius.
He SAID grocery prices would fall immediately, then they didn't, and now he's spending millions on things that appear to have nothing to do with lowering grocery prices or inflation.
CHECKMATE, DEMOCRATS!
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I'm confident that once MY president uses loads of taxpayer money squashing the LA protests he smartly provoked and celebrating his birthday by destroying the streets of DC with a tank parade, grocery stores and food suppliers will have no choice but to drop their prices. Because who knows what this guy might do next?
It's the art of the deal, baby!
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Say you're a grocery store owner and you're about to slap a price tag on a box of cereal. Those cereal producers might be charging the store more because of Trump's incredibly smart tariffs, or because of supply chain issues, or because of the inflation Trump promised would disappear, that hasn't disappeared yet. (That's also part of his master plan - he's trying to confuse inflation so it won't know what to expect out of him. Classic dealmaker maneuver.)
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If you're a Marxist, radical, socialist Democrat, you probably think: The grocery store owner is going to put a higher price on the cereal because it costs them more, and they need to make a profit.
WRONG!
'I'm going to patriotically lower the cost of this cereal'
That grocery store owner is going to think: "Since President Trump was willing to spend millions in taxpayer money to send the Marines into Los Angeles to fight people I don't like, and because he loves America so much he made America pay for his birthday parade, I'm going to patriotically lower the cost of this cereal to make my president look good, even if it means I'll go out of business in three months."
Duh. That's a little thing called good ol' American capitalism, you lefty doorknobs. Look it up!!
Enjoy the military parade and the US invasion of LA, MAGA!
So yes, as an American who loves America and has invested my life savings in President Trump's cryptocurrency, I feel 1,000% confident that dropping nearly $200 million on invading Los Angeles and rolling tanks through our nation's capital will lower grocery prices and probably also reduce inflation.
The rest of you just don't understand how America can get great again. Maybe if you watch the big June 14 military parade that we're paying for, you'll understand.
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