Inflation was measured at 3.8 percent in April, and keep in mind, this is the number that the Trump administration is willing to tell us is the number.
Taking Trump Math at face value, inflation is at its highest rate in more than three years.
Why you don’t necessarily just trust the Trump Math: the Labor Department is claiming that gas prices in April were up 28 percent over April 25; AAA, though, has the April 2025-to-April 2026 increase at 44 percent.
They lie.
Anyway.
Trump was asked about this as he was about to climb into another helicopter, because that’s all he seems to do these days – aside from falling asleep in Oval Office meetings being broadcast on live TV.
The phrasing of the question: “Inflation is now at its highest level in three years. Are your policies not working?”
Trump’s answer: “My policies are working incredibly. If you go back to just before the war, inflation was at 1.7 percent. Now, we had a choice. Let these lunatics have a nuclear weapon. If you want to do that, then you’re a stupid person, and you happen to be, I know you very well. Anybody that wants them to have a nuclear weapon is a stupid person.”
Odd, that Trump claimed last summer that his attacks on Iran back then had “totally obliterated” the nation’s nuclear infrastructure.
We’re to believe, then, that Iran went from having whatever it was doing with nuclear weapons development totally obliterated to, being on the verge of being able to bomb its many enemies back to the Stone Age, in, what, eight months.
If they’re that good, which, they’re not, but going with the argument from the senile old man in possession of the nuclear codes – how can we be assured that totally obliterating Iran again will work this time?
I don’t think we can.
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