Since retaking office, President Donald Trump has incessantly claimed that America is entering a new “Golden Age” of prosperity and wealth. Using this rhetoric dating back to at least his January inaugural speech, Trump promised to end the “inflation crisis” imposed by the Biden administration.
During his address to the United Nations this week, Trump repeated his talk of a “Golden Age” and said other countries were “going to hell” over their immigration policies, touting his ongoing mass deportation campaign as the best way to combat the supposed “crisis of uncontrolled migration.”
Over eight months into Trump’s second term, it is clear that these claims are utter nonsense. After the previous administration had finally slowed the post-pandemic inflation boom, the cost of living has started to tick up again. The best evidence indicates that Trump’s xenophobic immigration policy has not even remotely reached the levels he promised on the campaign trail.
So what has been the tactic to address these poor results thus far in his presidency? Instead of altering course to fulfill his promises to the American people, Trump and his allies in Washington, D.C. — and here locally in Tennessee — have done their best to muddy the detrimental impact of this administration’s policies.
After a less-than-stellar employment report in August — adding just 73,000 jobs nationwide in July, an amount well below projections — Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, a Biden appointee who headed the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Taking to Truth Social, the president called the BLS jobs report “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”