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Trump shamelessly lies: "Go to Walmart and other companies, and in every case it's about 25% that a Thanksgiving meal and surroundings are 25% lower. That's big fact."

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And surroundings? Wtf are the surroundings? 🤣🤣🤣 that Walmart thing is Thanksgiving dinner for a family of 4 with less items, generic brands and lol with shrinkflation packaging will feed 2 people realistically. So nope not really saving anything.

Most people aren’t buying a package meal from Walmart for Thanksgiving, anyway, so why is it the only example they’ll entertain? You can be sure that’s not what they’ll be having.

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Jon Karl interrupts the Regurgitation About Cheaper Thanksgiving Dinner ‘but wait a minute, wait a minute, I’ve gotta stop you'...

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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart-- KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

Let him say it. Everyone shopping for Thanksgiving will know he's wrong, whether that means he is utterly clueless or that he is lying his ass off. It just cannot help him to say something people can -- and have to -- see so clearly for themselves.

He’s happy to receive attention for his lying. Attention for global sex trafficking not so much. Attention for looting our treasury not so much. Attention for starting a war with Venezuela not so much. Attention for his obviously advancing dementia not so much …

Do the US public notice? Or does by being MAGA mean that you accept the price rises as a Biden thing and blame Biden accordingly? How do you reconcile what your president tells you vs what you pay at the shops compared to 6 months ago?

Not a big fact, a big lie. And one which has been exposed many times now. So who does he think he's fooling with this debunked lie? How many people can there be with media diet so restricted that they never hear the truth, just MAGA lies over and over?

If you shop Walmart, and can make do with fewer Thanksgiving dining options/side dishes, and buy Walmart's private label brand instead of the National brands, you might save money compared to last year. I checked local prices. Turkeys are about the same (with qualifying $25 purchase), not lower.

Could someone create a chart that compares ALL of last year’s items with the same items displaying this year’s costs. Compare apples with apples literally. What’s the damage?

I do not have a chart, but looked them up individually and the 2024 meal serves 8 people while the 2025 meal serves 10 and screen shots of the meals below:

Thanks. Yes, so the key would be for some intrepid soul to duplicate last year‘s meal item by item, brand etc., and come up with the cost at today’s numbers vs last year. I dare say his clubs are charging more this year than last. That’s another relevant comparison.

I added up all the items for both years and this year is barely lower than last year. But last year had a lot more sides and desserts that were removed from this year’s meal.

I was looking for a duplication. An article did that research and allegedly duplicated last year’s menu with today’s prices and noted a 6.5% reduction which surprises me.

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This site lists the items and compares this year's with last year's. www.cheapism.com/walmarts-tha... This year's menu has 22/29=75% of the items of last year--that's one way to make it cheaper.

"Thanksgiving meal and surroundings". He lives in a world where people don't talk about "all the trimmings". Why don't they use that language? Because he dictates every single conversation they will ever have.

He is obsessed with this friggin Walmart meal the same way he obsesses over words, like "groceries". He is acting like he's just discovered a rare earth mineral mine below his paved over Rose Garden.