(After getting elected on promises to lower prices on day one)

I'm not doubtful that happened, but could you provide a source?

I don't have a specific cite but I saw it in quotes from when he was announcing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

He said they could cause price increases and pain in the US but that they would cause more pain in Canada and Mexico.

Trump said it directly in a news conference. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china...

"We may have short-term, a little pain, and people understand that,"

The recording I saw was Trump saying we need to accept pain. He's asked frequently why his actions make very little sense and he typically responds incoherently.

Its in one of his screeds on Truth or Musk Social

Colbert has a good bit and quip about it

They seem to be joined at the hip now, what with Elon being granted carte blanche. If it helps, I prefer "fat man and little boy".

Poor ol' JD Vance is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb)

(The _third_ WW2-era bomb design, an impractically long plutonium gun-type. Much like Vance, it was rather pointless and impractical, and was never really heard from again.)