Trump vowed to tame inflation, yet intervenes more than Biden

Trump promised to tame inflation: a year later, the story doesn't add up

A year after his return to the White House, the record looks nothing like the campaign script. Trump came into office with two concrete promises: to end inflation and to close the chapter of interventions in other countries. The first has faded away — the US price index has risen over the period — and the second has been broken: more foreign operations have been counted in twelve months than in the previous four years. The Iran operation, in particular, is described as a money pit with no visible return.

The impossible fit of the liberal voter

The voter who claims to be liberal has a coherence problem. Trump has not peine markets: he has raised tariffs. He has not cut transfers: he has promised checks. And he treats international trade as a declared adversary, not as a framework of rules. The label pinned on him during the campaign works better as a joke than as a description, and anyone defending it needs to jump through hoops.

The party that looks the other way

What is striking is not the U-turn, but the silence. Except for a segment of the MAGA ecosystem that keeps up its criticism — Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones — the Republican voter accepts the package with one argument: the Democratic alternative would be worse. That is the only axis both machines successfully exploit: pointing at the rival's catastrophe. And some go further: they argue that foreign policy barely changes tonalidad depending on who signs the orders, and that the weight of lobbies in Washington is shared between the two parties. No one has refuted this with data.

The tech apparatus and the money around it

Beneath the noise lies a less disputed layer: the apparatus surrounding power. Vance maintains a close relationship with Peter Thiel, and Palantir works for the administration. From there to the suspicion that this access serves to monitor internal rivals within his own party is a stretch no one has documented, though it circulates insistently. In parallel, the business dealings of the president's family circle fuel the idea that the office operates as a business platform, and the plans for the Gaza strip — flattened, and recast in the narrative as a tourist resort with golf courses — fit that logic.

With all this, his approval rating should be collapsing. It is not. The electorate that sees the numbers twisted keeps voting the same way, and the opposition denouncing the mess is part of the same web. The analysis gets stuck there — not on the data, but on figuring out what it would take for a data point to hurt.