{"id":21596,"date":"2025-11-25T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=21596"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:39:05","slug":"thanksgiving-im-ausnahmezustand-ein-praesident-der-von-bildern-lebt-die-mit-der-wirklichkeit-nichts-zu-tun-haben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/thanksgiving-im-ausnahmezustand-ein-praesident-der-von-bildern-lebt-die-mit-der-wirklichkeit-nichts-zu-tun-haben\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving In A State Of Exception \u2013 A President Living Off Images That Have Nothing To Do With Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump smiles into the cameras, two turkeys at his side, but hardly anyone is impressed by it anymore. While Waddle and Gobble are carried through the hotel, graphics run across the screens of the news channels that look dramatic at first glance. Groceries 85 percent, electricity 78 percent, health care 67 percent, housing 66 percent, gasoline 54 percent. Anyone who sees only the numbers immediately feels as if the United States is on the edge of an economic collapse. But these percentages are not price increases, they are purely survey values: They show how many people say that their costs are higher than a year ago, not by how much they have actually risen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This makes them attractive to anyone who turns images into headlines that then circulate in the German speaking world for clicks, outrage and plenty of income for the operators of the respective, for example Facebook pages. We can only advise: do not share these things immediately with the attached texts and at least check the claim of such posts. This type of fake news spreading is a problem for us as well, and the grotesque part is that these people earn not little money with it, while the field that explains honestly and properly is literally fighting for every cent. These are strange times.<\/strong>, w\u00e4hrend die Sparte, die ehrlich und ordentlich aufkl\u00e4rt, wortw\u00f6rtlich um jeden Cent k\u00e4mpfen muss. Es sind schon verr\u00fcckte Zeiten.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The official data tell a different story. Groceries, energy, housing, health care \u2013 everything is rising, but in the range of a few percentage points of 3 to 5 percent. The great uncertainty does not come from a sudden jump, but from the sum of the years: millions of Americans have been living since 2022 with prices that feel like a slowly tightening ring. That cannot be filtered away with a photo of two turkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n