Trump already walking back campaign promises

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Gee, what a surprise: Trump is reneging on his campaign promises even before he takes office.

Kevin Drum on the unsurprising news:

....Trump has been lying for so long about how terrible things are that he can hardly claim they're even worse than that.

But that's not stopping him. On Sunday he told NBC's Kristen Welker he "couldn't guarantee" that his tariffs wouldn't raise prices. That's certainly not anything he's said before.

Then today he told Time that maybe he wouldn't be able to bring down the price of groceries after all. "It's hard to bring things down once they're up." he said, accurately. "You know, it's very hard." This, of course, was widely known all along. In fact, it would probably be disastrous if prices fell.

I expect these are just the first of many walkbacks. He can't do most of the ridiculous shit he promised over and over, and the stuff he can accomplish will mostly be because Biden already accomplished it for him. But he'll figure out a way to take credit for it anyway.

 See also Trump "making shit up"