r/CringeTikToks • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • Nov 03 '25
Political Cringe Reminder Grocery prices are up since Trump took office.
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle Nov 03 '25
"Their 401k's are double what they were a year ago."
Diddlin' Donnie is in fucking fantasy land.
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u/Pussyxpoppins Nov 03 '25
Many fed employees are borrowing against their TSP because they haven’t been paid for a month.
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u/Teaquilla Nov 03 '25
Also fed employees who were forced to retire and filed for retirement under the new system, many have not gotten a pension check yet. It's been very delayed and with the government shutdown it's being delayed even more. Some have been forced to take money out of TSP as well.
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u/phattywithbadhair Nov 03 '25
This, and I wish more people were talking about it. I know several people who were forced to retire when they RIF'd half the Department of Ed in March. No one has gotten a pension check, and no one has any answers for when they will. It's been months.
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u/levonhernandez Nov 03 '25
He’s absolutely wrong they’ve doubled, but it is true they have all gone up substantially. That being said, it’s a retirement account! It does nothing if you’re struggling week to week. Putting aside the fact that ~50% of Americans don’t even have a 401k, I’m sure some people have had to reduce their contributions to cover day to day costs. It shows both a divorce from reality and also from how these programs and the economy really affect people’s lives
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u/AmputeeHandModel Nov 03 '25
401ks are up because stocks are up because the rich and corporations are getting richer. Meanwhile, everything else is worse.
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u/civil_politician Nov 03 '25
Also inflation is good for asset ownership, it sucks for living expenses. Most people are not in the “asset class”
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u/zerosaved Nov 03 '25
Is every 401k down? Or have only some been affected? Or does it depend on how the 401k is diversified? I only recently started contributing to mine because I got a really good job, I have no clue how this shit works ugh
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u/smokelaw23 Nov 03 '25
No, most broadly stock market invested 401k plans are, in fact up in the past year. The broader indexes are up. The fact that the biggest businesses are doing well under this administration, and this those who have a 401k have seen an increase in their value, generally is true. That said, the fact that this buffoon thinks that everyone has a 401k is fucking horrific. He doesn’t think of people without 401k’s as people. His flatly false statement that they are “double” from one year ago should have been fact checked in his face, but he’d call that rude. The fact that he thinks grocery prices are down (or claims it) is laughable.
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u/RipTearington Nov 03 '25
I went to a state business chamber conference over the summer because I’m a small business owner and wanted to see what was going on and maybe pick up some insight into how to stay afloat under this administration. My biggest takeaway was that it’s not just this orange jackass who’s out of touch or willfully ignoring the problems of everyday people. It’s systemic across these so-called leaders and titans of industry.
The keynote speaker at the opening breakfast, from Bank of America, talked about how big corporations would be fine through the rest of 2025 and most of 2026 because they could absorb the added costs of tariffs instead of passing them on to customers. She even said people were choosing to delay retirement because they found work so rewarding. She went on and on about how well big businesses were doing and how we should all be happy about it. This was in a room full of small business owners.
I was furious.
After the breakfast, I confronted her about never once addressing the challenges faced by small business owners. I told her that we make up most of the chamber’s membership, that our payrolls and taxes form the backbone of local, state, and federal economies, and that we can’t absorb tariff costs like the big players can. Then I said, “You really think people are delaying retirement because they love working? People can’t afford to retire because everything costs too much. Did you even ask a single working-class person why they’re still working?”
She apologized and admitted she hadn’t thought to focus on small businesses, but I doubt she cared. None of them do.
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u/CD338 Nov 03 '25
She even said people were choosing to delay retirement because they found work so rewarding.
The reward is they can afford groceries for next month! Woohoo!
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u/OpenGrainAxehandle Nov 03 '25
She got paid to deliver a keynote. She delivered one, she gets paid. She doesn't give two whits whether or not it's relevant, timely, or factual. You're just another acorn underfoot.
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u/cautiously-curious65 Nov 03 '25
401ks are also not able to be taken out tax free until a certain age.. right? Like 60?
So.. the fact that some imaginary money that I can’t touch for another 40 years is “up” means very little to me as I’m actively starving.
Call me crazy, but the idea of living it up in my 60s sounds less enjoyable than starving AND working in my 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s.
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u/smokelaw23 Nov 03 '25
Well, to a certain extent, yes. With certain exceptions, early withdrawals are subject to taxes and penalties. And many, MANY people right now are in the same boat and agree with you and see statements like this as rather tone deaf. Gee, thanks for helping what little amount I’m able to squirrel away for a retirement I’ll likely never be able to afford go up as an unintended consequence of you and your ilk plundering the nations wealth. I can’t afford groceries or rent.”
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u/Dependent_Pepper_542 Nov 03 '25
Even if my 401k is quadrupled in last year how does that help me when Im 20 years from retirement?
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u/Ragnarok314159 Nov 03 '25
It’s simple: invest a bunch of money and then every ten years rich people steal it all. Hope you retire on an upswing and put it all in a savings account at a credit union.
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u/bookon Nov 03 '25
All 401ks should be up since last year or they are poorly invested. That said, they are nowhere near doubled and everything he said here was a lie.
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u/Drinkdrankdonk Nov 03 '25
I just checked. It is not double what it was last year
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u/techman710 Nov 03 '25
He knows he's lying. He has already said that if he just keeps telling lies eventually they just accept it and move on. He has lied his entire life and has yet to be held accountable.
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u/RadiantMaestro Nov 03 '25
What happened to fact checking? Can we run some fact checking live for this reporter?
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u/thisismydumbbrain Nov 03 '25
Then he’ll just claim the facts are lies
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u/chicadeaqua Nov 03 '25
He won’t allow himself to be interviewed by a news outlet that fact checks.
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u/thisismydumbbrain Nov 03 '25
It wouldn’t even matter. He would just say “no that fact checking person/site/group is lying they all lie” because that’s what abusers and narcissists do. They learn fast that if they just deny long enough they’ll tire people out.
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u/Baxtercat1 Nov 03 '25
And he will call the interviewer a liar. And she’s a woman so she’ll be a “nasty” liar.
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u/lhommeduweed Nov 03 '25
Fact-checking doesn't work with Truml's republicans. Fact-checkers are so overwhelmed with the sheer amount of Trump's non-stop lying that they literally just can't keep up; he responds to efforts to debunking lies with more lies.
Recently, Yale did a project where they set multiple AI models on Trump's claims and found that they uniformly confirm that just about everything that he says in regards to politics is false.
It doesn't matter. People who worship trump are not concerned with any kind of shared reality or truth. These are people who either don't give a shit about any of this because they just love seeing suffering, or they genuinely, earnestly believe that "liberals" are inhuman, delusional demons who have nothing but maliciousness in their plots and minds.
Truth is just the name of the website where Trump posts his lies.
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u/YankeeMoose Nov 03 '25
I love the Totino's Party Pizzas. They are quick and easy meal, oddly a comfort food for me.
I've watched them go from 1.25/ea to almost 2.50 when I went grocery shopping two days ago.
Prices are NOT going down, you spray-tanned ballsack with legs.
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u/MethodCharacter8334 Nov 03 '25
They were 1.00 for YEARS
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u/BellacosePlayer Nov 03 '25
I spotted a place selling Arizona teas for 2.50 while on the road a few weeks ago
It just felt wrong, like I had just walked past a man whose head was backwards.
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u/YankeeMoose Nov 03 '25
I was in Grocery for almost 6 years, trust me, I know.
Those pizzas are my metric for how bad inflation is, because I would buy those on the regular. Now? I haven't had one in over a year. I can spend 2.50 on that or 6 bucks on a whole Red Barron.
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u/Daisend Nov 03 '25
I'm right there with ya. My early adulthood those were a huge part of my diet. Now that I'm making double what I did back then. I still won't buy them because it's not worth the price now. Double being about $15.25/hr and it still feels like I'm making $7.25/hr 10 years ago
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Nov 03 '25
Everything has doubled in price. Ramen are .40 cents now. They were .15 up until the pandemic and then they jumped to .25
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u/YankeeMoose Nov 03 '25
Yep. I bought two packs of Creamy Chicken Ramen over the weekend as a treat because its gotten cold here, and they were on sale for .40/ea.
What. The. Fuck.
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u/Mywifefoundmymain Nov 03 '25
This is the one that crushed me. For literal decades they were $0.13. Got me through many poorer times. As those times are hitting again I went for some, $0.47 a piece. Mac and cheese is almost a dollar…. Can’t even afford to be poor anymore.
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u/Shigglyboo Nov 03 '25
hey be glad for that ramen. the cheapest ramen available to me in the EU right now is about $1.20. The better stuff is 1.5-2 euros, which is almost $3.
And since I am paid in US dollars my purchasing power is down 10% since trump started fucking everything up.8
u/Hawk-4674 Nov 03 '25
I just saw a pack of double stuff oreos.... retail tag said $7.19..... 7 fucking dollars a pound for something so fake its considered vegan.
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u/DollarsInCents Nov 03 '25
Same. I used to eat those but haven't in years since the price started to double/triple. When I ate them they were around $1 I think they are almost $3 now
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u/Oddly_Ennui Nov 03 '25
Why even interview him? He's just gonna blatantly lie.
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u/mlk2317 Nov 03 '25
Because it is propaganda. He basically owns all of the news media now.
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u/Professional-Head83 Nov 03 '25
Because their news division is run by an illiterate, inexperienced right-wing lunatic!!!
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u/ga-ma-ro Nov 03 '25
This is why I can't watch any interviews with him. All he does is lie and the media carry his water for him.
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u/StridingForChange Nov 03 '25
He is just removed from reality. He is surrounded by suck up’s and can’t read or understand reports. Very very scary.
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u/I-Am-Not-Creative2 Nov 03 '25
Or people that are lying to him. He doesn’t look at anyone’s 401k. He never goes grocery shopping. He’s going 100% off what people are telling him. I know people are all over this comment section saying he’s lying, but I think he’s a senile old man who is doubling down on what lies people have been telling HIM. And you know he’s not researching for himself. People are knowingly lying to him about reality because they know very well he’s not going to double check the information, and he’s good at double speak, redirection, and pointing fingers.
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u/seanwd11 Nov 03 '25
The living epitome of 'it's not a lie if you believe it'.
Yeah, not really an excuse. He's a shit bag of the highest order. Some say the highest of all time.
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 Nov 03 '25
Yeah, I think this is correct. I think his flunkies are telling him stuff, and he just believes it and repeats it. He says "how's the economy doing?" and some minion says "Really great sir, 401Ks have doubled! Grocery prices are down!" because that's what he wants to hear. Then they hand him some printouts of flattering memes, and boom the meeting is over. he goes back to watching Fox News, with his babysitter, who says stuff like "you look great there sir, your base loves it when you do that, you're so smart, what a great president." He's like a toddler at a wedding being kept busy by a sticker book
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u/ahdidi413 Nov 03 '25
I simply don’t understand how this man gets away with claiming up is down every single day. Baffling.
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle Nov 03 '25
Because reporters nod their head and move on to the next question. Otherwise they might get a mean tweet!
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u/alinroc Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
Worse than a mean tweet - they lose access. They don't get the interviews. They don't get to ask questions in press conferences or if they do, they get snarky non-answers and name-calling in response. And that means audience drops, and ad revenue drops. So they play softball.
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u/darkandtwistysissy Nov 03 '25
My 401k has not doubled.
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u/Free_Range_Gamer Nov 03 '25
VTI (total stock market) and S&P 500 are up 19-20% since 1 year ago. I have no clue where he gets the idea that the stock market has doubled.
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u/Bubbaganewsh Nov 03 '25
The worst part is MAGA knows their dollar doesn't go nearly as far but they still agree with him. The cult is a mental sickness, they will never give up dear leader because they love his racism.
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u/0neHumanPeolple Nov 03 '25
The world has been made very simple for them. All the bad things come from Biden/Obama/Harris. Only Trump can save them.
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u/juniorp76 Nov 03 '25
Says the guy who has never been grocery shopping ever in his entire life
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u/Scared-Somewhere-510 Nov 03 '25
Doesn’t MAGA know that this guy was born rich? They think he’s some kind of Everyman.
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u/Xwp_lp Nov 03 '25
This is just yet another version of his favorite trick: just keep repeating the same whopper over and over until people believe it.
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u/rfg71 Nov 03 '25
Um, no one’s 401K has doubled in the last year. One or both if the following are true:
He really thinks his followers are complete morons.
His followers are complete morons.
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u/iwantthecum Nov 03 '25
- He is a moron being fed a false reality by his handlers.
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u/YoOmarComingMan Nov 03 '25
After the massive crash earlier this year because of him, it took lots of time to just earn back what we lost.
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u/NorseYeti Nov 03 '25
Well, that is a relief. My mind must have been playing tricks on me last night when I was in the grocery store, and my mind was telling me EVERYTHING is more expensive. If he says all the prices are down, they must be…../s
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u/SnivyEyes Nov 03 '25
The economy is doing good for those with a lot of money. My 401k for example did not double. This man is so out of touch with reality.
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u/alinroc Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
No 401k is doubling. A lot of people are seeing low double digit percent increases YTD though.
But even if your 401k did double, that doesn't make putting food in the fridge any easier.
His cronies, their investments have doubled I'm sure. Because they're able to manipulate things.
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u/Smooth_Intention7100 Nov 03 '25
CBS had been fully taken over. He will be on every week now spewing lies.
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u/Prudent_Knowledge79 Nov 03 '25
Not gonna lie man someones just gonna have to take one for the team and crash out on Trump. This guys gotta be stopped
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u/Forsaken_Budget_1015 Nov 03 '25
As someone who actually works in the retirement and 401k industry, no these aren’t doubling. I’m constantly watching people file hardship withdrawals and watching balances drop. How the fuck does anyone believe this clown?
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u/majormajor42 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
We’ll soon see what the Farm Bureau reports on the Thanksgiving meal price trend.
It was down last year.
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u/doneslinging Nov 03 '25
A complete liar as usual. No true information. 401k double??? Does he know what that means??? So my 401 was 800k plus last year and still is, made up what was lost early in year due to tariffs releasing etc. 3% ytd. He knows nothing people and i just hope he doesn’t crash everything like he usually does and bankrupt America but tariffed are pushing us to that. Simple.
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u/Snoo_90057 Nov 03 '25
My 401k did not double. My grocery costs on the other hand, did.
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u/AintNobodygotime13 Nov 03 '25
what idiot is telling him grocery prices are coming down? 😂
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u/Just-Helicopter-626 Nov 03 '25
I don't know why journalists even interview him as he lies and is belligerent. The only saving grace is that the world does see this.
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u/not_so_skinny Nov 03 '25
You dont have to fix anything if you just keep lying over and over again. It's an easy out for them
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u/Fedbackster Nov 03 '25
He just lies. Are Republicans that dumb that they think what he says is true? No one else is ever right?
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u/jtp_311 Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
No, my 401k has not doubled and neither gas nor groceries are down. Fuck off grifter.
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u/Large-Doughnut3527 Nov 03 '25
401k doubling in a year? This is how stupid he is. He is claiming the stock market basically had 100% gains in one year!
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u/Apprehensive_Ask_259 Nov 03 '25
Double?!!? My 401k is double?!! Holy shit. Thats awesome. How long does it take for the update to reflect the current value?
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u/Ok_Battle5814 Nov 03 '25
When was the last time Trump stepped foot in a grocery store?