Affordability! Trump Brags About $300M Ballrooms While You Pay $200 for Sneakers

In this fiery Decem­ber 2025 episode of BKP Pol­i­tics on VoiceOfRuralAmerica.com, host BKP deliv­ers a no-holds-barred rant aimed square­ly at Pres­i­dent Trump, Speak­er Mike John­son, and the cur­rent direc­tion of the Repub­li­can Par­ty rough­ly 325 days into Trump’s sec­ond term.

Key points and themes:

1. Grow­ing Frus­tra­tion with Trump’s Mes­sag­ing on the Econ­o­my
   BKP is furi­ous that Trump and the admin­is­tra­tion keep declar­ing vic­to­ry on the econ­o­my and “afford­abil­i­ty” while every­day prices (gro­ceries, cof­fee, steak, kids’ sneak­ers, school sup­plies, ener­gy bills, build­ing mate­ri­als) remain painful­ly high or are still ris­ing. He repeat­ed­ly calls out the absur­di­ty of Trump brag­ging about build­ing a $300 mil­lion ball­room while telling strug­gling par­ents they only need “2 or 3 pen­cils” and can give up the rest.
2. Tar­iffs Are Crush­ing Work­ing Fam­i­lies & Farm­ers
   He high­lights how tar­iffs have dri­ven up costs on import­ed shoes, sport­ing goods, insu­la­tion, and farm inputs while crop prices col­lapsed. Instead of fix­ing the prob­lem, the admin­is­tra­tion is hand­ing out $12 bil­lion in farm bailouts — the exact same play­book from 2018 that BKP says didn’t work then and won’t work now.
3. Trump Has Lost Touch with Fly­over Amer­i­ca
   BKP says Trump’s recent small-venue “afford­abil­i­ty tour” stop in the Poconos was tone-deaf: instead of lay­ing out a seri­ous 2026 plan, Trump ram­bled, bragged about end­ing “eight wars” that vot­ers don’t care about, and told peo­ple to just buy few­er school sup­plies. BKP believes Trump is cam­paign­ing like an arro­gant New York bil­lion­aire again instead of the 2016 can­di­date who under­stood mid­dle Amer­i­ca.
4. GOP Women Are in Open Revolt Against Mike John­son & Lead­er­ship
   Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene, Nan­cy Mace, Lau­ren Boe­bert, and oth­ers are pub­licly trash­ing Speak­er Mike John­son for sidelin­ing and mar­gin­al­iz­ing women in the par­ty. BKP argues women vot­ers care far more about gro­cery prices, school safe­ty, med­ical free­dom, and social-media dan­gers to their kids than for­eign wars — and the cur­rent GOP lead­er­ship is ignor­ing them at its per­il.
5. 2026 Midterms Look Dis­as­trous for Repub­li­cans
   BKP pre­dicts a blood­bath in 2026. Local and state Amer­i­ca-First politi­cians are ter­ri­fied some­one will ask them “Are you MAGA or with MTG?” in a pub­lic forum. He says many GOP incum­bents are pri­vate­ly hor­ri­fied at the thought of Trump com­ing to cam­paign for them because they’re afraid of what he’ll say on stage.
6. Deep State & Media Prepar­ing the Next Attack
   Despite the vic­to­ries in 2024, BKP sees “dark clouds” and warns the CIA, Deep State, and Mock­ing­bird media are gear­ing up for anoth­er assault, espe­cial­ly if eco­nom­ic pain con­tin­ues.
7. Upcom­ing Geor­gia Elec­tion Fraud Seg­ment
   BKP teas­es that David Cross will join lat­er to dis­cuss his pre­sen­ta­tion to the Geor­gia State Elec­tion Board (case SCB 2022-015), which has now been referred to the Attor­ney Gen­er­al — strong­ly imply­ing major 2020/2022 fraud devel­op­ments are still com­ing.

BKP repeat­ed­ly says “you’re going to hate me for telling the truth,” but insists some­one has to say out loud that the Trump admin­is­tra­tion is fum­bling the econ­o­my and alien­at­ing the very vot­ers who put him back in office. He still sup­ports Trump and Amer­i­ca First, but believes the cur­rent path leads to a 2026 dis­as­ter unless there is an imme­di­ate course cor­rec­tion.