<p>I scream, you scream, we all scream — especially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> — at the rising cost of ice cream.</p>
<p>On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">released</a> a whopper of a Consumer Price Index report showing that year-over-year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation">inflation</a> rose 8.6% in May 2022 — breaking a 40-year record.</p>
<p>Most Americans will pay attention to the <a href="https://twitter.com/jackikotkiewicz/status/1535240341787496450?s=20&amp;t=2NzGo7wlBTuyhWO2nKwLCg">fact</a> that in the last year gas rose 48.7%, fuel and oil were up 106.7%, and meat, poultry, and fish rose 13.1%. Biden, however, may start to better understand Americans&#8217; economic woes when realizes that <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.htm">his prized ice cream has gone up 9.6%</a> in price year-over-year.</p>
<p>The report will undoubtedly cause more stress for the president as he struggles to stay afloat in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/poll">polls</a>, but also because the self-described &#8220;ice cream guy&#8221; will now have to pay more money for one of his favorite foods — like all Americans.</p>
<p>On June 2, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/politics/joe-biden-messaging-struggles/index.html">reported</a> that Biden was grappling with how to be a president because, unlike when he was second-in-command under President Barack Obama, he simply cannot discuss &#8220;serious&#8221; topics while purchasing frozen dairy treats.</p>
<p>CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/politics/joe-biden-messaging-struggles/index.html">opined</a>: &#8220;The country is pulling itself apart, pandemic infections keep coming, inflation keeps rising, a new crisis on top of new crisis arrives daily and Biden can&#8217;t see a way to address that while also being the looser, happier, more sympathetic, lovingly Onion-parody inspiring, aviator-wearing, vanilla chip cone-licking guy &#8212; an image that was the core of why he got elected in the first place.&#8221;</p>
<p>It seems that the state of the union has been a bit of a downer for the president who was looking to leisurely enjoy his late 70s.</p>
<p>&#8220;He has to speak to very serious things,&#8221; one White House staffer told CNN, &#8220;and you can&#8217;t do that getting ice cream.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet — strangely enough — if Biden had spent more time getting ice cream in a store, then he would likely see the cost of his cone increasing with each trip.</p>
<p>Maybe then he would begin to understand that rising costs are hurting the American people and forcing them to change their eating habits and other behaviors.</p>
<p>On Monday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-changing-the-way-they-buy-groceries-as-inflation-soars-study-finds">reported</a> that a recent BMO Real Financial Progress Index, a quarterly survey from BMO and Ipsos, revealed that 42% of surveyed adults &#8220;are changing how they shop for groceries,&#8221; including &#8220;opting for cheaper items, avoiding brand names and buying only the essentials.&#8221;</p>
<p>The president has maintained that economic anxiety is occurring because — as he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-jimmy-kimmel-live-blaming-republicans-praising-himself-and-rambling-incoherently">told</a> Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday — he has not been able to communicate all the wonderful policies that he has enacted for the American people.</p>
<p>It is unclear how Biden would like to be communicating, but it is reasonable to assume that he does not want to start calling small business managers smarta**es as he did in 2010.</p>
<p>As vice president, Biden visited Kopp&#8217;s Frozen Custard Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As the video below shows, he entered the store and yelled, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the ice cream?&#8221; After being reminded it was a frozen custard store, he said, &#8220;Oh, where&#8217;s the custard?&#8221; and began to help himself to the tasty product behind the counter.</p>
<p>Upon checkout, Biden asked, &#8220;How much do I owe you?&#8221; The store manager jokingly replied, &#8220;Lower our taxes, and we&#8217;ll call it even.&#8221; The vice president seemed rankled by the comment.</p>
<p>Biden walked away but moments later returned, and said: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you say something nice instead of being such a smarta** all the time?&#8221;</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Biden Calls Small Business Owner &quot;Smartass&quot; for Asking for Lower Taxes" width="500" height="375" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fzo1gCIty7A?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Biden also allegedly made a similar comment to White House reporters this past week. On Wednesday, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2022/06/08/biden-to-media-be-better-00038244">reported</a> that there &#8220;is growing frustration by the president and his family that he is not receiving the kind of generally more positive coverage they believe he deserves.&#8221; The outlet added that Biden took the time to blast reporters aboard Air Force One for not giving him more credit on his economic recovery efforts in an off-the-record meeting.</p>
<p>Some of that credit includes his ability to feel the American people&#8217;s pain, apparently. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/06/07/white_houses_jean-pierre_the_economy_is_in_a_better_place_than_it_has_been_historically.html">often repeats</a> that Biden &#8220;understands very personally&#8221; how rising prices can impact a family&#8217;s budget. The president himself has <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1509590256462532615?s=20&amp;t=2NzGo7wlBTuyhWO2nKwLCg">said</a> he &#8220;grew up in a family like many of you where the price of a gallon of gasoline went up, it was discussed at the kitchen table.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, gas prices were <a href="https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/02/22/president_biden_just_told_a_monster_whopper_that_both_sides_missed_817680.html">mostly flat during his childhood</a> and that time period in his life was more than 60 years ago.</p>
<p>If he is looking to connect with the American people in a better way about inflation, perhaps he should start paying more attention to rising ice cream prices.</p>
<p>Better yet, he can start enacting actual policies that shrink government spending and which will slow down inflation — including lowering taxes as requested by that Kopp&#8217;s Custard manager.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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