But an equally big problem is that he is simply not interested in the American struggle. That's why he can't focus on them. That's why he rolls his eyes when he says the word “accessibility.” That's why in every speech he's given recently, when he's not lying about the accessibility issue, he's changed the subject. Trump raises the issue only to switch to his favorite topics: tariffs (which he recently said was his “favorite word”), immigration, his personal grievances, himself, Ilhan Omar, the Somalis in Minnesota, and so on. In its December 17 speech On economics, he started with three sentences about the cost of living and immediately after the word “affordability” he started ranting about immigrants, as if to wake up. Two days later, while performing in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, he shifted
from accessibility to his strange obsession with immigrants from insane asylums (he probably equates those seeking “asylum” with the mentally ill, old
Trumpian confusion) without even a hint of a logical transition, simply because he couldn't wait to get there.
Challenges are wearing Trump down. Why not? He's a rich guy who likes to hang out at Mar-a-Lago with other rich guys. He doesn't have the answers to the affordability crisis because he doesn't care – he really should be borrowing. his wife's infamous jacket— and because some of the simplest and most obvious solutions to the crisis involve unwinding his own policies, not to mention alienating Republican donors. No wonder he would prefer rant
about the Somalis in Minnesota – or remember the good old days when they tried to kill him.
Trump's complete aloofness and lies about the affordability crisis create a huge opportunity for Democrats, and some of them have taken advantage of it. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City's new mayor on Thursday. He advocated for making New York more affordable through universal child care, free buses, a rent freeze for rent-stabilized buildings, and increasing the supply of housing for poor, working-class, and middle-class New Yorkers. He is supported by a massive campaign to tax the rich to make all this possible. Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey's Democratic governor-elect, will also be sworn in on January 20. She also advocated for lower costs while strongly opposing the construction of new data centers, which would increase energy bills, empty the pockets of tech billionaires, and only flood the world with more new data centers. slops.
