President Donald Trump is nothing if not gifted at crafting politically advantageous alternate realities. Through repetition, force of will and shamelessness, he’s convinced tens of millions of Americans of a host of dubious or outright-false claims – most notably that the 2020 election he lost was somehow “stolen.”
But Trump’s latest effort to rewrite reality is brazen and puzzling even by his standards.
As inflation has proven stubborn, and even ticked up, and as energy and grocery prices have continued to rise, Trump has set about trying to convince people that this isn’t the case at all.
“I will say this: If you look at affordability, which they campaigned on, they lied,” Trump told reporters on Friday, referring to Democrats’ success in Tuesday’s election.
“Because they talked about, ‘Oh, prices are up.’ No, no. Prices are down under the Trump administration. And they’re down substantially.”
He’s arguing that the rising costs people can see and feel are actually down.
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