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President Donald Trump is hoping that his recent memorandum of understanding with Iran will end his voluntary war and allow prices to go down \u2014 but one political analyst says he should not get his hopes up.<\/p>\n

Read more Republican explains Trump\u2019s collapse into \u2018loser-in-chief\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

After noting that Trump’s seeming end to the war in Iran could help gas prices gradually go down, \u201cpart of Trump\u2019s problem is that in 2024 he promised not just relief from inflation but lower living costs in absolute terms,\u201d wrote New York Magazine political columnist Ed Kilgore on Tuesday. \u201cIn a very real sense, his Make America Great Again brand had come to mean making the pre-pandemic economy, with which he was fortuitously associated, magically reappear. And that\u2019s a very tall order, particularly in the limited time left before the midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kilgore added that voter perceptions of a negative economy seem to be baked in, and therefore he will need to prioritize addressing cost of living concerns if he is to have even a chance of improving his political fortunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if it\u2019s not too late for Trump to actually reduce living costs, he has to get with the program; affordability must be his focus, day and night,\u201d Kilgore argued. \u201cAnd that could be a heavy lift. It\u2019s not as though the Iran war has been his only or even his principal distraction. He\u2019s been consumed with vanity projects like the White House ballroom, the \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 slush fund, and the UFC fight on the White House grounds. He\u2019s spent more time recently ranting about imaginary voter fraud than boasting about his peace efforts; more time demanding congressional passage of his wildly divisive SAVE America Act than persuading Congress to adopt his vision for the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kilgore continued that \u201ceven if congressional Republicans craft a new party-line budget reconciliation bill that ostensibly addresses affordability concerns, the odds seem low that Trump will let them do so without adding in poison pills that have nothing to do with the economy at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more The real problem isn\u2019t Trump \u2014 it\u2019s the dead enders who keep supporting him<\/a><\/p>\n

Ultimately Kilgore concluded that \u201cfrom a purely political point of view, it was clearly a mistake for Trump to devote so much of this crucial year to a war of choice with no discernible payoff other than ending the carnage he initiated. Pivoting from the Iran war to anything else prior to the midterms will be difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

He finally predicted that \u201csticking the landing on affordability \u2014 as opposed to Trump\u2019s eternal agenda of self-glorification, grievances, and conspiracy theories \u2014 will require acrobatic skills this now-80-year-old politician just doesn\u2019t possess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Iraq war veteran and entrepreneur Paul Rieckhoff described the rampant inflation exacerbated by Trump\u2019s wars as \u201cthe thing he can’t spin out of. No matter how many times he says the Iran war is going to be over, his base remembers that. He said no new wars. He said no regime change wars, and they’re still ongoing. His base also remembers that he was going to bring down the price of milk, and every day they see that gas prices are still high \u2014 and that’s going to continue throughout the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rieckhoff continued, \u201cThis is dragging down the Republican brand even more than it’s dragging down him personally. That’s why I think there is an opportunity this fall for the Democrats. I’m not counting on them to take advantage of it, but there is a tremendous opportunity, maybe around this issue more than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump losing ground with his most crucial voting bloc<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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