President Donald Trump has spoken out on the U.S. affordability crisis, promising to both provide much-demanded relief to struggling Americans while simultaneously declaring the country has never been better.
“The Biden administration started the affordability crisis, and my administration is ending it,” Trump said in his address.
“Affordable should be our word, not theirs,” he added. “Democrats get up and they talk about ‘affordability,’ ‘affordable.’ They don’t say that they had the worst inflation in history, the highest energy prices in history, everything was the worst.”
At the same time, the president downplayed economic concerns, praising the strength of the country.
“This is also the golden age of America, because we are doing better than we’ve ever done as a country,” Trump said. “Prices are coming down and all of that stuff.”
“We worked on it this weekend,” Trump said on Monday. “And you’re going to see some of the items that were a little bit higher—they were lower than the last administration but a little bit higher—we’re going to have some little price reductions and, in some cases, some pretty good ones.”
“At the bottom, this mindset develops where they recognize that they may never win, but that doesn’t mean, ‘I can’t help you lose,’” Atwater told Fortune.
“This is a crisis of confidence,” he concluded. “Sadly, those who are in the best position to address it seem at best indifferent, and that does not go unnoticed by those at the bottom.”
