Ah, old habits die hard. Politico apparently learned nothing after being exposed for being a government-funded lefty propaganda mill and is already trying to pin energy inflation on President Donald Trump.
“Electricity prices are spiking. That’s a problem for Trump,” read Politico E&E News’s February 26 agitprop disguised as a news item. “President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to cut energy costs in half is facing a daunting reality,” railed reporter Brian Dabbs. Dabbs wielded a new report by the anti-Trump American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to drum up newfound media fears that “Electricity prices are tracking toward heights unseen since the 1990s when factoring in inflation,” supposedly due to “skyrocketing demand” of AI data centers, a problem that was already identified under the Biden administration before Trump announced a
