Donald Trump proudly announces ‘I don’t want to bring housing prices down,’ so homebuyers can just get lost
MAGA, you just got played.
During a Cabinet meeting on Jan. 29, Donald Trump made his housing policy unmistakably clear. He does not want homes to become affordable. He wants to keep prices high and make the people already inside the market wealthy. And homebuyers? They can stop dreaming.
Trump’s words were blunt. “People that own their homes, we’re gonna keep them wealthy. We’re gonna keep those prices up,” he said. He even repeated it for emphasis, “I don’t want to drive housing prices down.” Basically, his response to the affordability crisis is increasing the prices even further. But he forgot to explain the part where this makes sense.
The median homebuyers age in the U.S. has gone up to 40 years as of Nov. 2025 (via NAR) Yet, the billionaire president casually framed not being able to buy a house as a personal failure. “If there’s somebody that didn’t work very hard, they cannot buy a home,” he said. Imagine bluntly claiming young people do not deserve to own homes and thinking it helps you? Only Delusional Don can pull something like that.
But, sadly, his MAGA base living in their parents’ basements would still probably vote for him. If not, he just secured his Boomer homeowners base to vote for him in midterms by promising them more wealth. Brilliant strategy, Don.
“We’re going to keep those prices up. We are not going to destroy the value of their homes. I wanna protect the people so that for the first time in their lives, they can feel good about themselves. They can feel like they’re wealthy people.”
But Trump’s message almost suggests that the real crisis is in the homeowners’ court, not buyers. He just shrugged off the housing crisis as non-existent. And even if it exists, he proudly announced he’s going to make it worse. To soften the blow, Trump dangled interest rates as a distraction:
“We are going to make it easier to buy, we are going to get interest rates down.”
At the same time, he insisted that prices must continue rising. But lower rates don’t help if the principal keeps ballooning. Cheaper financing means nothing when the asset itself is intentionally inflated. And he kept reiterating the reason:
I want them to understand that there’s so much talk about ‘oh we’re going to drive housing prices down.’ I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their homes. And they can be assured that’s what’s going to happen.
This wasn’t a slip, it was a declaration of policy priorities. Trump is choosing equity holders over first-time buyers, landlords over renters, and inherited wealth over entry-level opportunity. If you already own, congratulations, you’re protected. If you don’t, tough luck.
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