The White House argued that Donald Trump’s agenda would make inflation worse. The evidence to bolster the argument is overwhelming.
by Steve Benen
MSNBC
Exactly two years ago this week, as post-pandemic inflation emerged as a leading public concern, Donald Trump appeared on Fox News and was asked what he’d do to address inflation if he were in the White House. The Republican gave a long, meandering, and wildly dishonest answer, which didn’t even try to address the underlying question.
It was a two-minute exchange that made a simple truth unavoidable: The former president wants to complain about inflation, but he doesn’t have the foggiest idea how he’d go about making it better.
Trump does, however, have plenty of ideas about how to make inflation worse.