{"id":408822,"date":"2025-11-27T17:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408822\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:49:15","slug":"robert-reich-serves-up-some-cold-hard-truths-about-thanksgiving-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408822\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Reich Serves Up Some Cold, Hard Truths About Thanksgiving Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich has carved into Trumpworld\u2019s claims that Thanksgiving dinner has become cheaper this year.<\/p>\n<p>The former labor secretary laid out the economic reality in a new video and Substack newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Reich, who served in Bill Clinton\u2019s Cabinet, detailed why the cost of turkey, side dishes, desserts, coffee and more has continued to rise during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second term, despite Trump\u2019s campaign promise to slash prices, which Reich said was \u201cthe single-biggest reason people voted for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grocery prices \u201care the highest they\u2019ve been in years \u2014 and several of Trump\u2019s policies are making the problem worse,\u201d said Reich, a longtime critic of Trump\u2019s economic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump doesn\u2019t want you to know any of this,\u201d he argued. \u201cHe\u2019s doing everything possible to prevent the public from knowing how much and how fast prices are rising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut here\u2019s the truth: Rising grocery prices resulting from Trump\u2019s failure to keep his biggest promise are hitting all of us \u2014 no matter whom we voted for \u2014 and making this Thanksgiving especially expensive,\u201d Reich concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Reich has carved into Trumpworld\u2019s claims that Thanksgiving dinner has become cheaper this year. The former labor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,69,122749,44599,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-408822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-robert-reich","11":"tag-thanksgiving","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115622927701336202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}