President Donald Trump had a blunt message for anyone struggling to make ends meet: He does not feel your pain.

During a lengthy cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the president called the issue of affordability a “fake narrative.”

Between nodding off and a racist rant, Trump declared during the gathering that the cost-of-living squeeze felt by millions of Americans “doesn’t mean anything to anybody.”

Polls show affordability is the top issue facing Americans. But Trump claimed all the talk about affordability was a “con job.”

So who is conning whom?

Trump ran for office last year on the promise to lower prices, end the war in Ukraine, and release the Jeffrey Epstein files. He’s done none of it.

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” he said in August 2024.

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