Granderson: Trump keeps talking about bacon prices, but that's not making the point he intends

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Two of the justices in favor were selected by Trump.
49% : On Feb. 7, 2020, after speaking with the president of China, Trump was interviewed by journalist Bob Woodward.
47% : Trump likes to complain about current-day America as if he's a fresh face with a new vision, but he does have a record we can refer to.
44% : As late as Aug. 31 that year, Trump was still telling the country: "It's going to go away."
37% : Republicans in the Senate wouldn't get on board to solve the problem facing consumers; they wanted to ensure that Trump could campaign by complaining about gas prices.
36% : In March 2020, Trump himself issued an executive order intended to prevent price gouging.
34% : It's quite telling that Trump felt misleading voters about the pandemic was a better campaign strategy than winning voters over by leading us through it.
32% : That September, while Trump was issuing "Citizenship Day" proclamations, the price of bacon reached a then-record $6.36, and surprisingly, he didn't fault the White House.
28% : In April 2020, House Democrats introduced the Price Gouging Prevention Act to try to stop corporate America from taking advantage of the pandemic to raise profits, but Trump was still telling the country "this is going to go away."
26% : He couldn't have chosen a worse example to make his case: The price of a BLT was destined to jump around now regardless of whether Trump or President Biden were in office.
24% : During her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Harris warned the nation that Trump is not a serious man but that reelecting him would have serious consequences.
17% : In trying to reach voters struggling to make ends meet, Trump has focused on the cost of bacon as the anecdote to use when attacking Biden's economic policies.

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