A 72-year-old Arizona man who voted for President Donald Trump three times says the administration's economic policies have priced him out of one of his simple weekend pleasures.

Louis Oliverio lives in Bullhead City, a conservative retirement community in a county Trump won decisively in 2024. He told The Washington Post that his favorite Saturday activity — grilling steak — has become unaffordable. “It's been a while since I bought a fillet,” he said.

Oliverio said middle-class and lower-middle-class residents of his community want prices to come down While he believes the president has “taken on too much” on foreign policy, he still credits Trump with progress on curbing illegal border crossings.

“It's not about MAGA. It's about what's best for our country, our freedom, our Constitution, our First and Second Amendment,” he told the Post.

His assessment comes as Trump prepares to visit the city on Wednesday to hold a rally ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump carried Mohave County with more than 77 percent of the vote in 2024. Bullhead City's population skews older, with one in three residents aged 65, and, according to the report, many live on fixed incomes, leaving them exposed to rising energy and food costs. Unlike working households, retirees on fixed incomes cannot offset higher prices with bigger paychecks, so each increase lands squarely on budgets that have no room to stretch.

The pressures residents describe are reflected in federal data: Labor Department statistics show annual inflation reached 3.7 percent in September, continuing an upward trend and standing well above the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target.

Trump campaigned on bringing prices down and pledged no new wars. Per the report, he has responded to the issue first by denying the economic reports and then by shifting blame to his predecessor. Economists and Federal Reserve officials have flagged the administration's tariffs and the ongoing Iran war as the main factors pushing prices higher.

Bullhead City officials specifically cited tariffs on imported steel and aluminum as a driver of higher water infrastructure costs — metals that feed into pipes, treatment plants, and other utility construction — and residents saw water and sewer rate increases take effect in January.

At the Senior Enrichment Center, program manager Kim Cool told the Post that a meal that once cost $1 to provide has tripled in cost, while the number of people seeking meals has doubled in two years.

Another resident, 73-year-old Sue Berilla, told the Post she can no longer comfortably afford her favorite treat, a half-loaf of rye bread, which has more than doubled in price — from $2.49 two years ago to more than $5.

Oliverio gave no indication of how he will vote in the midterms. But his account, per the report, illustrates how the affordability problem is reaching even Trump's most loyal supporters — and, with the midterm elections approaching in November, whether those cost concerns register at the ballot box remains to be seen.