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Trump Uses Inflation To Sell Border Panic, And The Numbers Don’t Exactly Cooperate
Trump tried to frame the border as a bigger crisis than inflation in a holiday-week statement, then promised he could fix inflation “very quickly” if handed power again. The message was classic Trump: blend a real economic concern with a border alarm, inflate the danger, and present himself as the only adult in the room. But the statement’s own rhetoric undercut its credibility, because it offered no actual plan, just another round of anti-immigrant and anti-Biden grievance. The result was more familiar than fresh: Trump elevated a problem by shouting about it, while offering little beyond slogans.