The Daily Beast
US · 56 mins ago
Trump, 80, Self-Soothes With Bonkers Chart
Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters
Donald Trump tried to defend his poor handling of inflation in his second presidential term by sharing a misleading chart on Truth Social.
During a frantic social media posting spree on Sunday, the 80-year-old president shared a video comparing the rates of inflation in his second term with those recorded under predecessors Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and George H.W. Bush.
The evolving chart features cumulative CPI-U inflation between months 18…
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