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Trump claimed Walmart Thanksgiving meals are cheaper this year under him. The facts say otherwise

President Donald Trump and the White House this week repeatedly touted the reduced cost of a Thanksgiving meal at Walmart as an indication that the U.S. economy is in a better position than before he returned to office. However, a closer look at the details reveals those claims are not true. “Walmart just announced that Prices for a Thanksgiving Dinner is now down 25% since under Sleepy/Crooked Joe Biden, in 2024,” Trump wrote on in a post on Truth Social. “AFFORDABILITY is a […]

todayNovember 8, 2025 2

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President Trump pardons baseball legend Darryl Strawberry: ‘This has nothing to do with politics’

Baseball legend Darryl Strawberry received a full pardon from President Donald Trump for a federal conviction dating back 30 years. Strawberry, 63, pled guilty to tax evasion in 1995 from failing to report $350,000 in income from autographs, personal appearances and sales of memorabilia. He served 6 months of home confinement and two years of probation. The MLB all-star, who suffered from colon cancer in the ’90s, was also sentenced to probation and suspended from baseball after he pleaded no […]

todayNovember 7, 2025 3

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‘We can’t give everything away’: Trump suggests SNAP money goes to people who don’t want to work

President Donald Trump defended his administration’s decision to only partially disburse SNAP to more than 42 million Americans, before ultimately appealing a federal judge’s order to fully fund the food assistance program. “We have to remain liquid. We can’t give everything away based on a number,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday night. “Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars, could be anything.” On Friday, the Trump administration asked an appeals court to […]

todayNovember 7, 2025 3

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Trump bizarrely calls groceries ‘old fashioned’ when confronted over high costs: ‘We’ve got prices way down’

After Republicans suffered major losses in Tuesday night’s general elections up and down the ballot, President Donald Trump is now seizing on the use of certain vocabulary related to the economy to try to turn the tables. When asked about the election results, in which Democrats dominated his party, Trump appeared to suggest Republicans performed poorly because they didn’t talk enough about one word: affordability. “They have this new word called affordability, and [Republicans] don’t talk about it enough. The […]

todayNovember 7, 2025 2

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Trump touts new actions to lower prices for weight loss drugs. How will it impact Black Americans?

The White House announced on Thursday agreements with two of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers to lower prices for weight loss medications. The deals would expand access for millions, including Black Americans who suffer health disparities like obesity and diabetes. President Donald Trump unveiled the agreements with Eli Lilly and Company and Novo Nordisk inside the Oval Office. The White House is touting the deals as the “most significant actions ever taken by our federal government to lower prescription drug […]

todayNovember 6, 2025 2

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President Donald Trump brags about the US economy despite growing concerns: “We have the greatest”

President Donald Trump took a victory lap on the economy on the one-year anniversary of his successful election, boasting of cheaper prices and saying the U.S. is the envy of the globe even as the Republican Party faced a rebuke from voters anxious about their own finances in Tuesday’s off-year elections. Trump, speaking Wednesday at the America Business Forum, said he thinks that communication was the problem, insisting that “we have the greatest economy right now” and that “a lot of people […]

todayNovember 6, 2025 3

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‘I’m really not supposed to be here’: Winsome Earle-Sears touts unlikely rise in concession speech despite no Trump endorsement

Despite losing the race for Governor of Virginia on Tuesday night, Lt. Gov Winsome Earle-Sears hoped that Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger would be a successful leader as she thanked supporters in her concession speech. Election experts called the race for Spanberger less than an hour after polls had closed. As the votes were tallied, the former U.S. Representative had secured nearly 500,000 more votes than Earle-Sears, the state’s first Black woman lieutenant governor. “You know, I’m really not supposed to be […]

todayNovember 6, 2025 1

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Trump says no SNAP benefits will be provided until government reopens, creating confusion

In what appeared to be a major reversal, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that no SNAP food assistance will be funded until the government reopens. The announcement seemed to violate court rulings from federal judges who ordered the federal government to use emergency funds to keep the program funded. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a court filing, stated that it would disperse $4.65 billion in partial funding from a contingency fund but would not provide an […]

todayNovember 4, 2025 3

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Nicki Minaj invited by Trump official for visit after praising president’s claim about Christians in Nigeria

The Trump administration extended an invitation to Nicki Minaj after the rapper praised President Donald Trump for defending against the so-called persecution of Christians in Nigeria. As theGrio previously reported, the 42-year-old hip-hop star expressed her “gratitude” for Trump‘s claims about Christians facing an “existential threat” and that “thousands” have allegedly been killed based on their religion. Following adulation from Minaj, real name Onika Maraj, Mike Waltz, Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former national security advisor, invited […]

todayNovember 3, 2025 1