President Donald Trump listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington DC, on December 2, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Amid a deluge of jokes, insults, social media rage and warnings of imminent military action that have spilled from President Donald Trump in an especially loquacious few days, there have been two startling omissions.

He’s announced few plans to ease deep insecurity inflicted on millions of Americans by the punishing cost of daily life or the scary spike in premiums for Affordable Care Act policies. Instead, he’s using a master brand maker’s familiar tactic — fashioning a new reality in which such problems don’t exist.

“Look, affordability is a hoax that was started by Democrats, who caused the problems of pricing,” Trump fumed at the start of

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