Trump Says Affordability Is a “Con Job” — While America Suffers
Speaker Mike “MAGA” Johnson was recently asked a simple, brutal question:
What about people living paycheck to paycheck? What about the Americans who feel psychologically tortured by the cost of living under Trump’s regime?
His answer?
“Relax. We are exactly on the trajectory where we’ve always planned to be.”
Just wait, he said. The budget bill will kick in “next year.” Our “best days are ahead of us.”
Then he tried to spin Trump’s own comments, insisting Republicans are the ones laser-focused on affordability — and that Trump only called it a “hoax” in the sense that Democrats were blaming Republicans.
So what did Trump actually say in the Oval Office?
Straight from his mouth:
“Affordability is the greatest con job.”
He claimed people had “the worst inflation” before him, even as his own era is defined by skyrocketing costs, job losses, and a shrinking middle class. It’s classic Trump: say the quiet part out loud, rewrite history, then hope no one plays the tape.
But the tape is playing. Everywhere.
While You Struggle, They Talk Station Wagons and Stock Trades
As families choose between rent, groceries, and healthcare, Trump’s people are obsessing over…
✨ 1970s station wagons
✨ Manners at the airport
✨ Their right to trade stocks in Congress
Trump’s Transportation Secretary Shawn Duffy actually went on TV and said we should bring back the 1970s station wagon like that’s the missing piece of the American dream. He joked about wood paneling. He told people to say “please” and “thank you” at airports, skip the pajamas, and lift bags for pregnant passengers.
Nice? Sure.
Helpful to people crushed by rent, medical debt, and energy bills? Absolutely not.
Meanwhile, MAGA Republicans in Congress are openly complaining that it’s “not easy” to be in Congress financially if they can’t buy and sell stocks freely. They warn that if you “squeeze it too hard,” good people won’t want to serve.
Translation:
They’re more worried about their portfolios than your paycheck.
All while Trump is out there calling Somalis “garbage,” throwing slurs around, and fanning hatred instead of fixing a single thing.
Enter Tom Steyer: “Trump Calls Affordability a Scam. He’s Wrong.”
Then comes the karma.
Tom Steyer, billionaire businessman and Democratic candidate for governor of California, stepped in and said what a lot of people are afraid to say out loud:
“Everybody knows affordability is a crisis except Donald Trump.”
Steyer admits he’s rich — and then immediately flips the script:
He’s pushed to tax billionaires like himself, close corporate real estate loopholes, and crack down on special interests that are ripping off Californians on rent, healthcare, and energy.
While Trump and MAGA brag about “drill, baby, drill” and 1950s fantasy cars, Steyer is talking:
- Billions for education and healthcare by closing long-standing corporate loopholes
- Single-payer healthcare in the long term to stop runaway medical costs
- Breaking up monopolies that jack up electricity prices
- Standing up to ICE crackdowns and Trump’s use of immigration enforcement as political theater
He even admits he was wrong in the past on healthcare — that he once believed tech and business efficiency could fix it. Then he looked at the data, saw costs exploding, and changed his mind.
That’s what Trump never does: admit reality.
Trump’s Words Are the GOP’s Kryptonite
Trump calls affordability a “con job.”
MAGA Mike Johnson tells people to “relax.”
Transportation officials fantasize about 1970s station wagons while wages stagnate and bills explode.
Members of Congress whine about not being able to trade stocks.
And every single time they talk, they prove their critics right.
This is instant karma in slow motion:
- Their own quotes are now evidence.
- Their own tape is the attack ad.
- Their own arrogance is the opposition’s best weapon.
The GOP doesn’t need anyone to bring them down.
Trump is doing it himself — one careless, cruel, out-of-touch soundbite at a time.