The Trump Economy

“The CEO of Ford said not long ago he’s got 5,000 open mechanic jobs,”

According to DJT, It's a good thing....

I know, but that’s a good thing, Tony. That means it’s vibrant. You could also have things where you have so many people and they can’t get jobs. It’s true, we are doing so well it’s hard. Now what’s going to happen is people are being trained rapidly and you’re gonna have a thing called robots, and robots are gonna be a big factor. I predict that robots are gonna be a big factor in the future and it’s gonna help out.

But you have a situation now where our economy is doing so well that it’s not that easy to get people. We’re training people, they’re training people, companies are training people, and they’re doing well. You know, that’s a positive question you asked me. I don’t think you asked it in that way, but we are doing so well right now that we’re training people to take those jobs.

Robots! We got a thing called robots!
Yep, they're pretty good at repetitive assembly tasks. Maybe somebody should tell DJT that Ford already has literally thousands of robots on the assembly line.

Maybe DJT should also be educated on what Ford's CEO Jim Farley was referring to. Those 5,000 openings are not on the factory floor but rather in Ford dealerships working on maintaining and repairing automobiles. Robots currently can't repair cars (nor will they be doing that anytime soon)

The economy is GREAT! Even if it isn't, eating is CHEAP!


Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can meet their nutritional needs on just $9 a day, claiming that one health meal “can cost around $3.”

“We’ve run over a thousand simulations,” Rollins said. “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a, you know, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.”


a, you know

And, of course

Fox News headline
CNN called out for framing of inflation under Trump versus Biden in viral post
Karen Leavitt and Fox call out CNN "disparity of framing" as'fake news'
https://x.com/PressSec/status/201142...den-viral-post

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-ca...den-viral-post
Under scrutiny..."US inflation is still high, but it’s falling,"




Let's look at Fox News inflation reports from the same time period
April 2023
Prices climbed 5% on an annual basis, down sharply from February's 6% increase and the smallest rise in nearly two years.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...ion-march-2023
Jan 13 2026
Inflation rose at a steady pace in December and remained persistently above the Federal Reserve's target rate as policymakers consider the case for interest rate cuts amid economic uncertainty.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/...-december-2025

Looks like Fox is guilty of same "disparity of framing" of the Biden economy and the Trump economy as CNN to me.

This one's better...Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' $3 meal

The farm economy in the US is in trouble.


https://news.yahoo.com/news/finance/...110230383.html

U.S. court records showed 293 farmers or farm operations filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy in the first nine months of 2025, nearly 36% more than the total number of such filings in all of 2024.

At the same time, average farm prices for corn harvested this past fall and marketed this year were estimated at $4.10 a bushel and soybeans at $10.20 a bushel - both down from 2023 levels, ​according to the latest USDA data.

BUT
Based on the USDA's preliminary 2026 yield outlook, and the agency's latest cost-of-production estimates, farmers would need corn prices of $5.03 a bushel and soybean prices of $12.80 a bushel simply to break even, according to a Reuters analysis of USDA figures.

Under the terms of a new U.S. trade deal with Taiwan, ⁠companies from Taiwan will invest $250 ​billion and the island's government will invest ⁠another $250 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing ⁠in ​the ⁠United States, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC on Thursday.

Sounds good, but I note a severe lack of any timeframe or actual details on this....seen these claims before, a number of them turn out to be vaporware.

This is the dawn of the golden age. Unless youre a fraudster, thief, violent attacker.

The economy is GREAT! Even if it isn't, eating is CHEAP!


Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can meet their nutritional needs on just $9 a day, claiming that one health meal “can cost around $3.”

“We’ve run over a thousand simulations,” Rollins said. “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a, you know, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.”


a, you know

And, of course
Originally Posted by RX792P

It's not cheap to eat out. A 1/2 rack of ribs (6 bones), fries, broccoli and a 10 oz Pepsi/Coke comes to $28 (without tip) at the local Applebee's in Irving, Texas. I don't consider that cheap.

This one's better...Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' $3 meal
Originally Posted by RX792P

Love how you got that one extra item in the post.

Actually, i'm really surprised they said tortilla. Not a slice of Wonder bread.

Love how you got that one extra item in the post.

Actually, i'm really surprised they said tortilla. Not a slice of Wonder bread. Originally Posted by Precious_b

She was trying to be Woke……

elg…..

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett babbled something about a 'Trump card' proposal after pushback on credit card interest rate cap.

I think that's a GREAT IDEA and would GREATLY BENEFIT THE ECONOMY.

The Trump Organization should immediately offer a credit card with a maximum of 10% interest, with no qualification to issue.
Maybe they can offer users the option to pay in cryptocoin...
Of course it would only come in a GOLD version.

I'm sure it will perform as well as Trump's casinos and maybe as well as Trump Mortgage LLC.

After all, Hassett said there are CEO's of "many of the big banks"
"We've been in conversations with the big banks, with CEOs of many of the big banks, who think that the president's on to something – that he's got a great idea," (never mind he can't name even on of those 'big banks')

Tariffs...
https://news.yahoo.com/articles/us-t...000018176.html

A Kiel Institute study found US tariffs are mostly paid by American importers and consumers.

The study found foreign exporters paid only around 4% of the tariff cost.

The research contradicts Trump's messaging that Americans aren't paying for tariffs.

A favorite tool of President Donald Trump has been costing Americans, according to new study.

The brunt of US tariffs — 96% — have been paid by US buyers, research from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank, found, while about 4% of the tariff burden was paid by foreign exporters.

"American importers and consumers bear nearly all the cost," the researchers said of the tariffs.

Oil is still cheap at $60 a barrel but when it hits $100, $120, or $150 a barrel due to currency devaluation and war the Trump Economy will be on LIFE SUPPORT and so will the American consumer and corporations. What you're seeing now is just an illusion.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can meet their nutritional needs on just $9 a day, claiming that one health meal “can cost around $3.”

“We’ve run over a thousand simulations,” Rollins said. “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a, you know, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.”

Brooke 'clarifies' her remarks...
Rollins clarified her remarks after being asked by a reporter whether she was being “a little bit flip” about the cost of groceries.

“No, and well, I regret that I didn’t make it sound like a more robust plate because that is what I mean to make it sound like,”

“A really big piece of chicken. And when I said a piece of broccoli, I meant like big. … I’m a mom of four, and I cook broccoli a lot. For me, that’s a big head of broccoli, a baked potato, etc., a couple pieces of bread,”

uh huh....$3...

Aha...now we know why houses are unaffordable...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, when talking about the administration protecting "mom and pop" homebuyers from big investor groups, saying,

"Someone, maybe your parents, for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."

It's not those pesky corporate buyers...it's your mom and dad.





Trivia for multimillionaire Scott “In a certain geographic region at a certain economic level, being gay is not an issue" Bessent:
Per US Census Bureau, only 65% of Americans own a home, and only 4% own a second home.