The White House won’t even try to explain Trump’s fictional inflation numbers

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Published 15 Oct 2026, 21:04 BST1 min read

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The actual inflation numbers aren’t good for President Donald Trump and his party. So Trump has come up with something of a solution: just use fake inflation numbers.

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