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Texas is typically considered firmly in the corner of President Donald Trump, who won the state by the largest margin<\/u> in decades. But now the editorial board at a major Texas newspaper has blasted the commander-in-chief for his dismissive attitude toward Americans\u2019 economic pain. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBelieve Trump,\u201d declared the Houston Chronicle<\/u> on Wednesday. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t think about Americans\u2019 financial pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is in reference to a shocking statement Trump made in mid-May when asked about how the war with Iran was hurting American pocketbooks. \u201cI don\u2019t think about Americans\u2019 financial situation,\u201d said the president. \u201cI don\u2019t think about anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven an elected official whose enumerated lies run into the thousands during his years in office tells the truth sometimes, even when he doesn\u2019t mean to,\u201d notes the Chronicle. \u201cIn fact, we have a name for inadvertent truth-telling, as columnist Michael Kinsley noted years ago. A politician telling the truth \u2014 in Kinsley\u2019s words, \u2018some obvious truth he isn\u2019t supposed to say\u2019 \u2014 is committing a Kinsley gaffe.\u201d According to the Chronicle, \u201cThe Kinsleyian truth is, Trump doesn\u2019t care about Americans\u2019 financial situation, or much of anything else regarding the everyday concerns of ordinary Americans (including the millions who voted for him).\u201d<\/p>\n

The paper\u2019s editors go on to list several of the many ways the president has failed in his consideration toward the public, writing, \u201cTrump doesn\u2019t care that his fellow Americans are watching the gas-pump click to roughly $50 or more each time they fill up. He doesn\u2019t care that shoppers are paying noticeably more<\/u> every time they tap the credit-card reader\u2026or that millions<\/u> are losing food assistance. He doesn\u2019t care that his fellow Americans are having to forgo healthcare, having lost access<\/u> to Medicaid<\/u> or coverage under the Affordable Care Act. He doesn\u2019t care that small-business owners are struggling, that Texas farmers and ranchers<\/u> are suffering. He doesn\u2019t care that White House adviser Stephen Miller\u2019s mass-deportation crusade is fracturing families and stifling local economies<\/u>. He doesn\u2019t care that, thanks in part to his war of choice in the Middle East, inflation for many hard-working Americans is outpacing wage gains. He says he doesn\u2019t even care if the peace talks with Iran<\/u> collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The paper\u2019s bottom line is simple: \u201cDonald Trump does not care.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does he care about? According to the Chronicle, \u201cThis president does care about is the opportunity to use the office to which he was elected to enrich himself, his family members and the rarified coterie of fellow billionaires he\u2019s so proud to be a part of\u2026He cares about garish ballrooms, gargantuan triumphal arches and his name and visage plastered on buildings\u2026He cares about spending our money \u2014 $1,776 billion, to be exact \u2014 on a scheme so brazen it almost defies belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, writes the paper, polling shows that Houston residents are tremendously worried about the economy as they face the \u201clargest one-year decline in attitudes toward job opportunities since the 1980s oil bust. As in the rest of the country, the economy is functioning beautifully for the wealthiest among us while everyday working people struggle to make ends meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The paper comes to a sharp conclusion: \u201cDonald Trump was elected in large part because he promised to ease those anxieties. He has not. His care-lessness and his gift for grift have made them worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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