It Is False that Trump’s Current Management Has Had the Lowest Accumulated Inflation Since 1989, as the President of the United States Said.

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In an interview published on August 11, Donald Trump stated that his current term is the lowest inflation of the last 10 presidencies, including

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In a recent interview, President Donald Trump falsely claimed to be the “president with the lowest inflation of the last 10,” apparently based on a chart that Trump posted on social media that misleadingly compares price growth during the first 18 months of his second term with total inflation at the end of his predecessors’ full four-year mandates. For that comparison to be valid, of course, it must be assumed that inflation will be 0% over the…