Convicted felon President Trump’s 2024 campaign political director-turned-White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair this week told Politico that he thinks “you’ll see the president talk a lot about cost of living as we turn the year and into the new year,” adding that the kingpin “is very keyed into what’s going on” and will be “very, very focused on prices and cost of life.”

Notice all the future tensing and the “you’ll see the president talk” where a phrase like “take aggressive action to lower prices” should be. He’s going to talk about it more, which means lie and say that prices are back to 2019 levels, gas is under $2/gallon, so on and so forth.

Amazingly it’s something of a marginal improvement in tone and awareness over that of a quote from a “person close to the Trump administration, who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations” that Politico printed last week in a story about the beef prices/rancher shitshow: “It’s kind of like eggs, part two. This all kind of started with just concern over consumer prices.”

Emphasis added on that because holy shit, lol. “This all kind of started,” said as if “this” wasn’t the fucking thing Team Orange spent two years essentially telling voters that Joe Biden was too old/weak and Kamala Harris too DEI to understand the secret quantum mathematical formula that would instantly turn a $18 Big Mac value meal back down to $7.49 tops at 12:01 PM on January 20th.

“This” is like Churchill coming into office and telling Parliament “Well we got our asses kicked by the Wehrmacht but we’re going to win. In fact an RAF captain told me he shot down two German planes yesterday. I think we’re winning. Anyway did you see the plans for the new Churchill ballroom? We’re demolishing 12, 14, 16, Downing Street to make room for it. Or maybe the Germans will do it for us…”