Trump flips Dems' 'affordability' script, turning buzzword into MAGA material as Mamdani visit looms

Affordability was the hot-button word on the campaign trail as Democrats separated themselves from the Biden-era market and lobbed attacks on President Donald Trump for current cost-of-living woes And on Friday the main champion of the affordability platform in the referendum cycle socialist New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will movement to the White House for his first meeting with Trump The socialist candidate who was relatively unknown until his primary defeat against former New York Gov Andrew Cuomo hammered home during his campaign that his policies would ease New Yorkers' notoriously high housing prices cut food costs and bring down the cost of living overall including by hiking taxes on the wealthy and corporations to bridge the financial gap LIZ PEEK WHY EVERY 'AFFORDABLE' PROMISE FROM DEMOCRATS ENDS UP COSTING YOU MORE I know that for tens of thousands of New Yorkers this meeting is between two very different candidates who they voted for for the same reason Mamdani explained Thursday about his meeting with Trump They required a leader who would take on the cost-of-living problem That makes it impossible for working people to afford living in this city A winning economic strategy is nothing new to the president however considering his first administration and electoral process platform focused on pulling the U S out of an economic hole And Trump is making moves to lay claim over the word affordability while taking shots at the Biden administration's record on prices The word is affordable and affordable It should be our word not theirs Trump commented Monday evening during McDonald s Impact Summit in Washington Because the Democrats got up in affordability the front of it And they don't say that they had the worst inflation in history the highest force prices in history Everything was the worst What The great ad is lying They say affordability This stuff was all much more expensive The White House communicated Fox News Digital Tuesday that Democrats don't have a leg to stand on with the business activity following the Biden administration which saw inflation spike to the highest levels in nearly years while arguing Trump has focused on real-life deals that translate to American jobs and lower costs since his first day back in office To the White House Fox Digital learned Democrats touting the word affordability is simultaneously an act of desperation following their losses as well as meaningless as there's a difference between talking about a concern and then veritably doing something about it Fox News Digital took a look back at how affordability grew in prominence as a top campaign platform in among Democrats and Trump's history of employing variations of the word affordable in his political efforts Make America Affordable Again was touted at points by the Trump campaign while the president signed an executive order under his first administration related to affordable housing and the White House celebrating in that Trump was improving the affordability and accessibility of life-saving prescription drugs We will target everything from car affordability to housing affordability to insurance costs to supply chain issues Trump revealed from the campaign trail in North Carolina in The New York Times communicated The president however largely has steered clear of the word affordability in his residents remarks and social media posts instead focusing his language around tariffs and paying off the national debt increasing the U S job sector onshoring companies that moved overseas and hitting back at the inflation woes that spiraled under the Biden administration and continue to loom over the Trump financial sector The White House pointed to a bevy of deals Trump has made since his return to the Oval Office that underscore his focus on affordability for the American people cutting regulations to unleash American potential to lower fuel and other costs multiple deals to lower drug prices and attracting business to set up shop on U S soil to promote American jobs The White House reported that it is in the midst of cleaning up the woes left behind by the Biden administration with an official telling Fox News Digital They got us in this mess in the first place Voters casting ballots for Democrats in the name of affordability is like hiring the arsonists to put out the fire former Republican Kentucky Congressman and Senate candidate Andy Barr remarked to Fox News Digital Complete Democrat control of Washington brought us the highest inflation in decades he stated President Trump and Republicans already delivered the lowest gas prices in years the largest tax cut in history and will keep fighting to Make America Great Again Just on Tuesday the White House hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman where he publicized that Saudi Arabia was increasing its planned financing into the U S economic activity to nearly trillion up from billion in May The deal translates to Americans directly benefiting with the White House pointing to GE Vernova an force equipment manufacturing company as it celebrates the capital and its impact on American jobs SETTING THE STAGE WHAT THE ELECTIONS SIGNAL FOR NEXT YEAR'S MIDTERM SHOWDOWNSDavid Broomwell who oversees three GE Vernova factories declared during the Oval Office meeting Tuesday If you look at the landscape for GE Vernova capital over million in the U S focused on true manufacture bring jobs here stateside We're looking at tripling the output of our Greenville South Carolina facility where we make the gas turbines that are supporting U S requirements as well as the Saudi Arabia requirements So real jobs million in gas assets resulting in over pieces of new equipment being installed in the Greenville South Carolina facility That translates into roughly jobs across the board for GE Vernova IT S NOT JUST THE BUSINESS SECTOR THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS BEAT THE GOP ACROSS THE COUNTRYJust more than a year ago economic anxiety under the Biden administration came to a vigorous boil and the electoral process was thrown into a tailspin as the president dropped out of running for re-election and endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris Harris' campaign was viewed as carrying out a series of missteps that led to her loss with the business activity seen as one of the top areas of concern by both pundits and voters Voters during the federal voting pointed to the financial sector as far and away their top issue Americans flooded the polls a year ago with their wallets at the top of their minds backing Trump on the ballot as the majority of voters broadcasted they were concerned they could not afford food healthcare housing and gas for their car previous Fox News Voter Analysis evidence indicated Liberal political pundits lamented that the Democratic Party was weak on the economic activity with even MSNBC's Joe Scarbourgh unleashing shortly after the balloting that voters were looking at what groceries cost what gas costs what rent costs while Democrats focused their campaign on deriding Trump for what they viewed as rhetoric that threatened democracy Then a year later Democrats pivoted to what would prove to be a winning strategy affordability Each of the Democrats in the three high-profile elections Virginia's gubernatorial electoral contest New Jersey's gubernatorial poll and New York City's mayoral vote prominently listed affordability as their top campaign issue In fact each campaign website boasts affordable or affordability on its homepage New York is too expensive Zohran will lower costs and make life easier Mamdani's campaign website boasts with an entire affordability platform dedicated to explaining his plan on city-run grocery stores to lower costs eliminating bus fares and fighting corporate exploitation Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani's company for comment ahead of his meeting with Trump but did not forthwith receive a reply REFERENDUM REFLECTION 'DEMOCRATS FLIPPED THE SCRIPT' ON AFFORDABILITY IN BALLOT BOX SHOWDOWNSA former Trump White House official and candidate for the U S Senate in Alabama Morgan Murphy advised Fox News Digital that listening to Democrats on the economic activity makes as much sense as asking your drunk uncle for stock tips at Thanksgiving These are the same people who jacked inflation to tried to tank the U S market system by shutting down the regime for days and just elected a full-blown communist to lead New York Murphy revealed They talk affordability but end up fleecing the American people Americans are struggling economically from a hangover because of Bidenomics It is crucial to grow the business activity re-shore manufacturing grow our force sector and increase opportunity which will decrease prices and make life more affordable Earlier in November Trump remarked that the Democrats had leaned into the new word while admonishing Republicans for not promoting similar platforms enough They have this new word called affordability and Republicans don't talk about it enough Trump mentioned during an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier following the elections The Democrats make it up because we took over a mess Think of capacity Vigor was so expensive and now I have it down to half what it was Mamdani and Trump are expected to have a fiery relationship upon the upcoming mayor's inauguration in January with the White House's top spox Karoline Leavitt describing Mamdani as a communist who ascended to the top of the increasingly left-wing Democratic Party while adding Trump's door is open to any U S leader