President Donald Trump spent the afternoon delivering lie after lie in Georgia, subjecting Georgians to yet another delusional campaign rally filled with falsehoods, weird distractions, and shoutouts to his Epstein-linked Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. This visit was just another desperate effort by Trump to hide his record of failure: a blue-collar bust, slow job growth, stagnant wages, layoffs, high utility bills, rising grocery prices, soaring health care costs, and an out of control immigration crackdown that’s terrorizing communities across the country – the list goes on and on. Less than a third of Americans say they are better off than a year ago and Trump’s approval rating in Georgia, a state he won by a healthy margin in 2024, is deep in the red. The truth is, Trump and his GOP allies have spent the past year screwing working families, raising prices to benefit themselves and their powerful friends.
Here are the key facts about what’s actually happening in Trump’s terrible economy:
FACT: Trump Promised A Blue Collar Boom, The Opposite Has Happened
- Donald Trump promised a manufacturing and blue-collar jobs boom, but month after month, we’re losing blue-collar jobs. Over 108,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in Trump’s first year in office and there’s no end in sight with the manufacturing economy “going in reverse” according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Logistics, manufacturing, and supply-chain have firms started 2026 with a fresh surge of layoffs, facility closures, and bankruptcy filings, impacting more than 2,200 workers nationwide already.
FACT: Job Growth Has Slowed To A Trickle Under Trump, And Over A Million People Have Been Laid Off
- Trump claimed that jobs and economic growth are exploding in his Georgia speech today, but the truth is layoffs hit a record high in Georgia in 2025.
- Layoff announcements topped 1.1 million in 2025 – the most since the last time Trump was in office during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The native-born unemployment rate has actually risen since Trump took office, and overall unemployment has risen to a four-year high of 4.6%.
- Wage growth has shrunk since Trump took office.
- 2025 saw almost no job growth at all. People are spending longer looking for jobs and millions of Americans are involuntarily working part-time or scrambling to string together multiple gigs just to survive.
FACT: Health Care Costs Are Going Up For Americans Under Trump, And Millions Will Lose Their Care All Together
- Trump bragged about all the great stuff in his Big, Ugly Bill, but the truth is that his bill is the cause of skyrocketing premiums and millions of Americans losing their health care all together.
- Over 24 million Americans are seeing their health care premiums skyrocket an average of 21% this year. Premiums are increasing an average of:
- The Trump-GOP Big, Ugly Bill kicks nearly 15 million people off their health insurance and cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid. Nearly 1.5 million people across Georgia who buy health insurance on their own through the Affordable Care Act are seeing their coverage costs at least double on average this year after the Trump-GOP budget ripped away critical tax credits that make ACA coverage affordable.
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dropping coverage after Republicans ended the health care tax credits to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations – and it’s only going to get worse. Up to 372,000 Georgians will lose their health care coverage entirely this year.
- Nearly half (42%) of Georgians are concerned they will not be able to afford the cost of health care over the next 12 months.
- Across the country, over 600 health care facilities, including hospitals and clinics, are at risk of closing or reducing services, forcing more Americans to travel farther for maternity care and emergency rooms, and face longer wait times and higher costs. Georgia hospitals are estimated to lose just under $220 million a year due to Medicaid cuts alone.
FACT: Trump Said Today That He “Won Affordability” But Prices Are Still Soaring
- Trump claimed today that he “won affordability” and “all of it has come down,” but anyone can see that prices on everything are still soaring.
- A year into Trump’s term grocery prices are still rising. The overall cost of groceries in December was up 2.4% from a year ago. Meat, poultry, fish, and eggs all went up in price over the last 12 months, rising 3.9%. Coffee prices rose 20% in 2025, and beef and veal prices reached record highs in 2025, rising nearly 15%.
- Trump touted his “energy price cuts,” but energy bills have increased 13% since Trump took office and in Georgia energy costs have increased by about $500 per household. Georgia already ranks 35th in energy affordability in the country, but Georgia Power hiked rates last summer anyway.
- According to a recent report ranking states on family-rearing, Georgia ranks 47th in the nation on affordability.
FACT: Trump Is Lying About Bringing Down The Cost Of Prescription Drugs
- Trump claims to be slashing drug prices by “900%” but the reality is that his “TrumpRx” plan does nothing to make drugs cheaper for most Americans and his Big Ugly Bill is costing seniors and taxpayers billions by delaying Medicare negotiations on popular and expensive cancer treatments.
- For many families, especially those with health insurance, purchasing medications through TrumpRx is actually more expensive than other alternatives. TrumpRx doesn’t include cheaper generic versions of many popular drugs, and it doesn’t allow patients to count their purchases toward their insurance deductibles.
- The Inflation Reduction Act, which passed without a single Republican vote, allowed Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors and is now saving seniors and taxpayers billions. Trump opposed the bill and actively fought its implementation. His Big, Ugly Bill is costing seniors and taxpayers billions by delaying Medicare from negotiating lower prices on many of the most popular and expensive cancer treatments.
- Trump entertained drug company CEOs at his Mar-a-Lago resort, solicited millions in donations, then spent the past year handsomely rewarding Big Pharma for their support.
FACT: Donald Trump’s “Favorite Word” – Tariffs Are Devastating The Economy And Driving Up Costs For American Families
- Trump claimed today that tariffs are making us a rich country and powering an American “comeback,” but the reality is they’re making Americans poorer. After a year of yo-yo tariffs and extreme uncertainty, Trump even threatened to “go a lot further” and impose even more tariffs.
- Americans pay almost all of the cost of Trump’s tariffs – and his unhinged trade policies have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since he took office.
- Prices have increased and American businesses are footing the bill for Trump’s tariffs.
- Two in three Georgians have expressed concern about tariff price increases and a year into Trump’s trade regime, Georgia small businesses still face extreme uncertainty about the cost of doing business and Georgia importers paid the fourth-highest tariff bill in the country in 2025.
- Trump said today that we won’t “become a nation of renters” but his policies actually promote one and have done nothing to make homeownership more affordable. Housing costs are at an all-time high and the Trump tariffs are doing nothing but driving up new home costs by tens of thousands of dollars. The Center for American Progress estimates that tariff-induced higher building costs will lead to 450,000 fewer homes being built over the next five years, exacerbating the housing supply shortage.
- The Trump-GOP Big Ugly Bill takes food assistance away from at least 3 million Americans and eliminates school meal access for more than 18 million kids.
FACT: It’s Not “Fake News”: Americans Hate Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policies
- Trump bragged about his cruel and costly immigration policies, but Americans hate what they’ve seen in the last year.
- Trump’s approval on immigration sits at a record low. The latest Reuters/IPSOS poll found a majority of Americans say Trump’s crackdown on immigration has gone too far. Just 39% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, down from 50% last February, and 58% say ICE agents have gone too far.
- A majority of Americans also disapprove of how immigration enforcement officers are handling their jobs, with a majority saying ICE’s tactics are “too forceful.”
- Since Trump took office, seven people have been shot and killed by federal immigration officers, including unarmed U.S. citizens. Dozens of others have been shot or seriously injured by “less lethal” munitions.
- There have been at least 13 instances of immigration agents firing at or into civilian vehicles since July, and more than 40 cases of immigration agents using banned chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing.
- More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories. In the highest profile ICE operations in Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; and across Massachusetts, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record.
FACT: Americans Hate What Trump Has Done To The Economy
- Since Trump took office, consumer sentiment has plunged by 26 percent and now sits near all-time lows, while the president’s approval rating on the economy has fallen deeply underwater.
- Just 35% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance on the economy according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
- 37% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling the economy, according to the latest AP-NORC poll.
- Just 36% of Americans approve of President Trump’s handling of the economy, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
- 57% of Americans blame the current state of the U.S. economy on President Trump, according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll.
- More than half (55%) of Georgians disapprove of the job Trump has done as president this term according to polling from Civiqs.
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