Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Over Breaking No. 1 Campaign Promise | EUROtoday

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says President Donald Trump “lied” when he promised on the marketing campaign path to decrease on a regular basis prices for the American folks — and mocked the MAGA chief Tuesday for his enterprise failures.

“We know that he bankrupted at least three different businesses, including bankrupting a casino, which is, like, impossible to do,” Jeffries stated on the “MeidasTouch Podcast.” “The house always wins, unless the house, in terms of the casino, is being run by Donald Trump.”

“Now he’s actually trying to bankrupt the United States of America, crashing the economy and driving us toward a recession,” Jeffries added.

In 2014, Trump’s on line casino firm filed for chapter for a fifth time, a reality that’s nonetheless being mined for jokes on late-night tv greater than a decade later.

But the destiny of Trump’s companies has turn into a critical topic with Trump again in workplace. He has imposed steep worldwide tariffs on U.S. imports that threaten to threat a recession — or worse — and appear to fly within the face of his personal political guarantees.

“Donald Trump and House Republicans spent all of last year on the campaign trail promising to lower costs on day one, to bring down inflation and to make life more affordable,” Jeffries stated Tuesday. “That was their central promise to the American people.”

“They lied,” he continued. “There was never any intention to do it.”

Trump vowed to cut back inflation and decrease the price of groceries whereas campaigning in opposition to former President Joe Biden after which former Vice President Kamala Harris. He walked this again after successful the election, nevertheless, stating: “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up.”

“And we now see that costs aren’t going down, they’re going up,” Jeffries stated throughout his podcast look. “Tariffs are actually adding thousands of dollars of additional costs to hardworking American taxpayers.”

Yale University’s Budget Lab has estimated the tariffs will price the typical family $4,700.

Jeffries additionally famous that members of the Trump administration “think that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme,” referring to tech mogul and Trump adviser Elon Musk’s comment on Joe Rogan’s podcast earlier this yr that Social Security is “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

“I think it’s fair that a lot of Americans across the country that I run into are questioning whether Donald Trump is actually fit, at this point, to be able to carry out the duties of the United States of America, in terms of being the president and the commander-in-chief,” Jeffries added.

Watch the New York Democrat’s full remarks under.