WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, “love” it.
Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn’t dismiss the affordability issue as a “hoax” that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living.
Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, Trump praised the numbers.
Me? No.
I knew it was just an electoral strategy, and a good one. After four years of Biden/Harris ignoring the exploding cost of living, they’d have been stupid not to make affordability one of the centerpieces of their platform; Thing is, anyone who’s been alive for more than a couple of decades knows that both ruling parties couldn’t care less about affordability.