This Post About Trump's Economy Will Definitely Start A Family Fight

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Hi there, my name is Alexa, and for each month of Donald Trump's presidency, I'm tracking the real numbers achieved by his administration on BuzzFeed.

(AKA the unemployment rate, cost of eggs, gas prices, inflation, the Dow Jones, whether citizens received a stimulus check, and Trump's overall approval rating.)

Midterms are around the corner, and considering everything Republicans have looming — the war in Iran, record-setting mortgage interest rates, and a staggering cost of living — daddy Trump doesn't seem to be looking forward to it.

Things appear so dire that the gaslighter in chief has even started bragging about the US's poverty. "We have the best, uh, I guess you could say poverty," he told reporters earlier this week. "We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."

WELL! If you want to take a look at alllllll the numbers the US has to brag about right now, you're in the right place. Here's how Trump's economy fared in August 2026.

Note: Data on inflation is released a few weeks after each month has ended, so our reports will look at the previous month's numbers.

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Unfortunately for the millions of Americans struggling to find a job in this doozy of a market, unemployment hasn't changed much since the start of the new year, and that's true for August as well.

For the second month in a row, the US unemployment rate was 4.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On a positive note, the price per pound of 100% beef is slowly, sluggishly, glacially going down. It's wild to think that $6.77 is a "lower" price, but after seeing an average high of nearly $7 in April, we have to take what we can get.

Imagine going back in time and telling 2024 you that less than $7 per pound of ground beef is a steal.

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Remember when Trump said the war in Iran was ending...and then he said it again...and then he said it again...and the average price per gallon of gas just kept growing and growing and growing? What? Too soon?

Yeah, well, across the US, the price is still volleying around the $4.10 mark. This time, the national average sat at $4.192 in August, according to the Energy Information Administration.

(Has anyone else been seeing those TikTok videos of people filling up their cars and increasingly getting stressed as the numbers barrel into the $100s?)