A new survey has found that Americans are being squeezed by higher prices as they head into the holiday season, forcing them to cut back on gifts and delay purchases because of Donald Trump’s faltering economy.

The Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that a vast majority of U.S. adults have noticed increased prices for groceries, electricity, and holiday gifts in recent months. Roughly half say it is harder to afford presents, and similar numbers say they’re postponing big purchases or trimming nonessential spending more than usual.

Those bleak findings come as Trump has been downplaying concerns about the state of the economy, while simultaneously urging families to scale back on Christmas presents for their children. At a Pennsylvania event on Tuesday, he told supporters, “You can give up certain products,” citing “pencils” as an example before turning to children’s toys: “You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter.

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        Wake up and realize that was his whole damn platform…. Lower prices on everything but didn’t inflicting tariffs, checks for everyone but only he only is helping his billionaire homies, didn’t help farmers but hurt them, cut jobs and jobs still down in the worst history! Get off FAUX news and RESEARCH and use whatever critical thinking skills you have, if any…

        “Stop driving your gas guzzler car, asshole” Or else “climate catastrophe”.

        You sound ignorant, do you know how tariffs work? He needs to stop blaming Biden for EVERYTHING while a year later, he’s one of the worst to our economy by far in our 21st century by also being a pedo, and causing an insurrection that lead to NOTHING but a stain on America!

        He’s an embarrassment, hands down!

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          What are you going on about? If you want to stop the climate catastrophe, you have to stop rich countries from polluting. That means banning carbon extraction, carbon burning, and factory farms.