'This is inflation': Trump waves around tiny Tic Tac box to explain economy to supporters

During a rambling speech at a campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, Wednesday, Donald Trump, struck by a familiar impulse, searched his pockets for a prop to help demonstrate the concept of inflation to his supporters.

The Republican presidential nominee took to the stage in his usual fashion and delivered a lengthy and frequently ad-libbed address to the crowd. While discussing how grocery prices have gone up in recent years and a lack of “deals” for shoppers, Trump got an idea.

“They have less than half a deal. In fact, I have something here,” Trump said, searching his pockets. “I don’t know if you’ve seen it. I’ve used it once. I have it, I do have it.”

He pulled out a box of white Tic Tacs.

“So this is Tic Tacs, right?” Trump said, looking incredulously at the box.

”I don't know if I like the company – I‘ve never met, I have no idea, they are so lucky, look at all the televisions – This is the greatest commercial they ever had.”

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Trump then pulled out a second, miniature box of Tic Tacs.

“But this is what happened. This is inflation!” Trump said, waving the boxes. “This is Tic Tac. This is Tic Tac. This is inflation. This is what’s happened.”

Trump claimed someone had given him the tiny Tic Tacs box that day, “and I said, "I think I’ll put it up as an example of inflation.”

This isn’t the first time he’s used the breath mints as a prop during a rally. He made a similar comparison at a June event in Washington, D.C., and before that at a May rally in Minnesota, where he called them “Biden Tic Tacs.”

"Look at the size of that sucker,” Trump said at the time. “This is inflation."

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