President Donald Trump’s recent commentary on the economy is drawing plenty of comparisons to then-President Joe Biden’s.
In his most dismissive remarks on the topic to date, Trump ratcheted up his downplaying of Americans’ affordability concerns in a Fox News interview on Monday. He even called them a “con job by Democrats” and said the “polls are fake.”
Four years ago, Biden and his administration made a series of wayward predictions and comments about just how significant a problem inflation would prove to be. And they wound up paying a significant political price for their economic Pollyanna act.
But the situations aren’t that analogous.
In fact, Trump has gone much further in his attempts to bury his head in the sand. And he seems to have a bigger problem politically speaking, for several reasons.
No, the economy isn’t necessarily worse under Trump than it was under Biden.
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