Trump Uses Deceptive Chart in False Inflation Boast
Critics said the chart compared 18 months of Trump’s term with full presidential terms and ignored how inflation kept rising later.
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Trump Uses Deceptive Chart in False Inflation Boast
In a recent interview, President Donald Trump falsely claimed to be the “lowest of the last 10 presidents on inflation,” seemingly based on a chart Trump posted to social media that misleadingly compares price growth over the first 18 months of his second term with total inflation at the end of his predecessors’ full four-year terms. For that comparison to hold, of course, you have to assume inflation will be 0% for the next two and a half year…
Why is Trump's inflation chart misleading?
President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social comparing his inflation record to past presidents. The video showed a chart placing “Trump II” at the top of the list, with lower inflation than the terms of Joe Biden, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. According to Mediaite, the chart measured cumulative inflation at Month 18 of each presidency. For Trump’s second term, that number was 4.71%. But the video also showed the ranking at Month 48…
Trump Shares Wildly Deceptive Chart Making His Inflation Numbers Seem Dramatically Better Than They Are
(Photo Credit: Alex Brandon/AP Photo) President Donald Trump shared a chart on Sunday which made inflation during his second term look great in comparison to other modern presidents — but it wasn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. The president shared a video on Truth Social showing inflation at 4.71% at Month 18 during his second term; the video stacked that figure from “Trump II” up against terms from other presidents like Joe Biden, Ge…
Inflation in the US just as expected – for the eighth time in a row. Are the data "too perfect" – so not kosher? And Trump obviously lives in a virtual reality, as his current tweet to the street of Hormus shows: one controls the street of Hormus and will keep it. Unfortunately, this is so [...] The post inflation too perfect to be true? And Trump's virtual reality! Market whispers appeared first on financial marketwelt.de.
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