Groceries are up. Umemployment is up. Rent is up.

They keep saying Donald Trump is “America First.”

And I want to know why. Because in this America, the one here on planet Earth, everything’s on fire except his damn ego.

Groceries are up 0.6 percent this month. Up 2.7 percent since last year. Meat, poultry, fish, and eggs are up 5.6 percent. Beef is up almost 14 percent and now at its highest price in American history.

Ground beef is $6.63 a pound, up 13 percent. Chicken is $2.08 a pound, up 4 percent. Fresh vegetables are up 3 percent. Even restaurants raised prices almost 4 percent. Families are swapping rib eyes for ramen, doing math in the checkout line, and hoping the bank account holds out longer than the groceries do. Inflation is up. GDP is down.

Unemployment is the highest it’s been in four years.

Small businesses are bleeding out.

Farmers are broke.

Infrastructure is frozen.

The government is literally shut down. But Trump’s 200-million-dollar ballroom at the White House is still getting built. Apparently “America First” means chandeliers before soldiers and gold toilets before groceries.

While you are deciding whether to buy chicken or gas, Mr. “America First” is out in the Middle East calling himself a “peacemaker.”

And he approved a 20-billion-dollar (and now another 20 billion) bailout for Argentina. Not for you. Not for the farmers he conned. For his hedge fund billionaire friends, they don’t lose money on bad bets.

He just said it out loud. “Well, bailing out Argentina doesn’t help our country very much.” Umm, you think? Then why the hell did he do it? Because it helps him. Because everything he does is for himself, not this country. He is using your money to make his donors richer while Americans are clipping coupons like it’s a second job. That’s not patriotism. That’s bullshit in a red hat.

Chicken is up. Bread is up. Gas, rent, insurance, all up. Your paycheck is flat. Your savings are gone. Your country is running on fumes. But sure, tell me again how this is “America First.” Because all I see is Donald Trump First.

Gold ceilings before school lunches. Foreign bailouts before family dinners. His name in gold before your grocery list in red. He doesn’t care about your bills, your job, or your kids. He cares about his brand, his bank account, and the next foreign check that clears.

He isn’t America First. He is Donald Trump First. Always has been. Always will be. And America? We are the ones footing the bill, so he can bail out billionaires and build a ballroom.