Jeffries: Trump's economic policy is 'his greatest weakness'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

April 20, 2025, 9:51 AM


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called out President Donald Trump for not addressing Americans’ economic needs.

“Well, this week, we'll be having a cost of living week of action, and we have to continue to talk to the American people about our plans," Jeffries told ABC News' “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday. "We recognize that housing costs are too high, grocery costs are too high, utility costs are too high, child care costs are too high, insurance costs are too high. America is too expensive. Now, Donald Trump is the president. And in terms of his approval as it relates to the economy, it was his biggest strength on January 20th. Now, it's his greatest weakness."

Jeffries also refuted recent Gallup poll findings that found Americans’ trust in Democratic leadership to fix economic issues is much lower than that of GOP leaders.

“There are a variety of different polls that are out there, including most recently a Morning Consult poll, that showed that congressional Democrats were actually trusted more than congressional Republicans on the economy for the first time in four years," Jeffries said. "We're going to continue to press our case on the economy, continue to press our case on protecting and strengthening Social Security, which is what we are committed to do. Republicans are trying to detonate Social Security as we know it. And certainly, we're going to protect the healthcare of the American people.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeffries-trumps-economic-policy-greatest-weakness/story?id=120978767

[regnaD kciN]

1. And here I thought it was his desire to establish a dictatorship...

[Ray Bruns]

11. I thought it was him being a complete moron.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. But he's relatively competent at establishing a dictatorship

while he's a complete buffoon in economic policy. While polls aren't yet asking "is he behaving like a dictator?", they show support for his immigration policies - where he's starting the dictatorship stuff - is holding up better than on the economy.

[MissMillie]

13. So many disasterous weaknesses to choose from

Tough to pick the biggest one.

[ShazzieB]

2. I don't know which is more ironic...

It's certainly very ironic that what used to be Schlump's greatest strength has been turned into his greatest weakness, due to his own ridiculous policies. But it also seems very ironic to me that millions of people were stupid enough to vote for him, believing that he was going to be good for the economy. How utterly absurd

[IbogaProject]

3. Yep we needed to push more on broad economic policies

And tie increasing 80% or more of our standards of living to universal health coverage, campaign finance reform, and restructuring our tax system to reward labor not capital and bequests.

[CaptainTruth]

4. Being dumb & batshit crazy should be his greatest weakness, but here we are.

[progree]

5. Trump on egg costs: 'If anything, the prices are getting too low', 'down 87%' The Hill, 4/18/25

From The Hill, 4/18/25

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-egg-costs-if-anything-the-prices-are-getting-too-low/ar-AA1DcG71

President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are “getting too low.”

Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.”

"I’ll never forget the first … day, first week in office, they were screaming at me about eggs. I said, ‘What’s going with eggs?’ They were doubling and tripling. I said, ‘I just got here.’ They were up like double, triple, and you couldn’t get any,” Trump said Friday.
“They said you won’t have eggs for Easter,” the president added. “Well, you can have all the eggs you want.”

. . . Prices of eggs went up to $6.23 per dozen in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. It was $5.90 in February, nearly a dollar more compared to January’s $4.95 per dozen. ((putting it in chronolgical order: $4.95 -> $5.90 -> $6.23 --Progree))

Last 2 times I bought eggs -- per dozen:
1/30 $7.00
4/04 $8.30

From the OP:
“Well, this week, we'll be having a cost of living week of action, ...," Jeffries told ABC News'

I don't see any cost of living reports this coming week, except new home sales (Wedn) and existing home sales (Thur)

The week after that is loaded with goodies, including PCE Inflation (Wedn), the Fed's favorite measure, as well as first read of Q1 GDP, Consumer Confidence, Employment Cost Index (Fed's favorite for wages), Payroll jobs and unemployment rate, Personal Income and Personal Consumption

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Thanks for the mini-schedule!!!

[progree]

9. YW :)

I see you got the Pope Francis story, I was getting ready to post one of my rare LBN OP's

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Good early morning for you!!

I was sitting here going through the "My Posts" and AP blared out a "breaking news" banner on my little iPad, so I got the fingers moving. Within the minute, every other news app that I have started blaring banners.

[msfiddlestix]

6. Uh no, it'a serious weakness, but not the greatest.

I wish our leaders would stop with the normalizing fascism by avoiding the fact in their political posturing. It's dangerous, it's the thing that has been in play for decades and facilitated the path to where we are now.

[BaronChocula]

7. Good messaging

For one, it implies trump has weakness which upends his testostrionic behavior of acting like a drunken rapey fratboy that no one wants to cross. And it ties into something even dumb voters can relate to which is that the economy is on as shaky a ground as it was in early 2008.

It could be boiled down to a bumper sticker like "It took less than six months for trump to tank the economy."
The economy isn't completely in the tank yet , but you gotta say what you want dumb people to believe and repeat. Sorry (not sorry) to be so frank.