A person shops for groceries at a store in Los Angeles, California, on August 12, 2025. Allison Dinner/EPA/Shutterstock New York —

President Donald Trump has repeatedly argued the affordability issue is an epic “scam” conjured up by Democrats.

“It’s a con job. I think affordability is the greatest con job,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Tuesday.

It’s a bizarre argument on many levels, especially since Trump is about to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to promote his economic agenda and his continued focus on “ending Joe Biden’s inflation crisis,” a White House official told CNN.

And for Trump, calling affordability a scam is doubly strange because it’s the very issue that helped propel him back to the White House .

Trump’s affordability campaign pledge

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