President Donald Trump promised to run America like a business. Now, some of his most loyal customers have buyer’s remorse.
Take Jessie and Carter Meadows, a husband-and-wife pair of small-business owners from a town in Georgia. For them, Trump’s return to the White House was a sign of forthcoming prosperity. But so far, the president’s second term hasn’t been all they hoped it would be.
“Is there anybody that can go up there and stay what they ran on?” Jessie Meadows, 36, lamented to Carter, 37, according to a profile on the couple from The Washington Post.
Faux berries that Jessie uses in the arrangements she sells at her flower shop have gone up in price due to Trump’s tariffs, she told the outlet.
Carter, meanwhile—who runs a funeral home—has also seen a price surge from one of his