“I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five,” Trump said, acknowledging the prices of such items could also go up.
That’s in stark contrast with candidate Trump, who spent much of 2024 railing against inflation under former President Biden and promising to lower costs if elected. In an ABC News interview last week, Trump said his economic policy is what voters signed up for.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right American Action Forum, called Trump’s messaging “pivoting” on an unpopular policy.
“This feels tone-deaf to me. This is, ‘You’re too materialistic. You don’t need as many dolls as you think.’ And he’s a very strange messenger for that message, and I don’t think it’s going to sell,” Holtz-Eakin said.
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