With some of these pressure points softening, food prices have cooled to rates comparable to before the pandemic.
“Grocery prices have skyrocketed,” he said.
“Until we can — if we can — fix climate change, there’s no way that food prices can come down,” he told CNN.
In the past, grocery prices have come down primarily when “the economy is under duress” and people don’t have enough money to pay for groceries.
Absent these kinds of scenarios, Trump is unlikely to get the actual food prices we pay back to where they were during his first term.
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