Has Trump delivered on bringing down the cost of living in the US?

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]They voted Trump here when he said he'd bring down prices. How's that working out?

[00:00:07]>> [singing] >> Prices are high.

[00:00:10]>> Two nice bunches.

[00:00:11]>> $7.50, please.

[00:00:13]>> You were both on a fixed income. We're both retired. So, it's bad.

[00:00:18]>> You want a 21?

[00:00:19]>> It's really hard.

[00:00:30]>> We've come to Roots Market in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The population here is partly Amish. The politics are largely Republican.

[00:00:40]They voted Donald Trump at the last three elections.

[00:00:44]Jim did.

[00:00:47]>> Here you go.

[00:00:47]>> Steph didn't vote.

[00:00:50]>> Two of us there.

[00:00:51]>> Neither did Jeremy.

[00:00:53]>> So, this.

[00:00:54]>> Sharia was a Trump voter.

[00:00:57]>> You can't do things on your own anymore.

[00:00:59]You have to depend on other people to help. It has to be more than you.

[00:01:05]Before you could be able to do things, but now you got to have help.

[00:01:10]>> You used to be able to go in and get a cart load of groceries, you know, and not bat an eye, but now you've got to be very picky and particular with what you buy. Just the necessities if you're going to have anything left.

[00:01:20]>> Travel, gas, we just try and stay home, try and cut the kids' activities as much as possible, or try and, you know, group our tasks to make sure of when we're going somewhere we get everything done in that area that we can at one time.

[00:01:34]>> Whatever this guy says do, I'm in.

[00:01:36]You're the only one I trust.

[00:01:38]>> It's costing you more.

[00:01:39]>> I don't care. I'd rather pay more than be pulverized by a an atom bomb. I don't mind the money. It's only money.

[00:01:47]>> The annual inflation rate is higher than when Donald Trump took office. Americans are spending less on groceries. The Iran war is pushing up prices. So, are tariffs.

[00:01:58]>> They want 75 of the same >> We focus on all the things that are wrong, but look how much good he's done now.

[00:02:12]With the tariffs and all of that and getting all of our the money back to our country where it belongs.

[00:02:18]>> Tariffs haven't delivered yet, at least.

[00:02:23]>> You don't think?

[00:02:24]>> Well, tariffs tariffs are part of the problem, no?

[00:02:26]>> Yeah, well.

[00:02:28]I don't know.

[00:02:29]>> I think everybody's to blame. Everybody it's it's greed, it's capitalism, it play a lot into it.

[00:02:36]Some of these prices for fuel, I don't think the price should be what it is.

[00:02:40]>> Thank you. I will, you too.

[00:02:42]>> Everything happening is absolutely insane. I think it's all a big show to get us all fired up and angry and I choose not to live my life that way.

[00:02:54]>> My theory is all that Venezuelan oil that's sitting in port that we confiscated, right before the midterms she's going to release it. Give him time. It's only been a year and a half and the war is just starting.

[00:03:06]>> It's not worth it. I don't care about a dollar or two.

[00:03:08]I'll write it off on income tax.

[00:03:10]It's all it's all business, strictly business. I just don't want to get blown up. I don't want anybody coming over here and pulverizing me. That's it. I don't care about the economy.

[00:03:24]>> Bringing down the cost of living is the promise to put Donald Trump back in the White House. It's what matters most to voters here. The polls tell us that. The president isn't delivering. That's what the prices say. It might yet cost him.

[00:03:39]>> Three.