President Donald Trump went on a provable "lying spree" that saw him spew outright falsehoods for a whole week, CNN reported.
The network's fact checker, Daniel Dale, pointed out multiple claims of impressive economic conditions — all of which he said were totally untrue.
"Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them," Dale wrote.
“'Every price is down,' he said Thursday. 'Everything is way down,' he said at another Thursday event. 'Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they’re down substantially,' he said Friday, adding, 'Everybody knows that it’s far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden. And the prices are way down.'
"None of that is true."
Dale wrote that Trump's most dramatic claims include:
- "Every price is down," he declared, despite evidence showing prices have actually increased by 1.7% since January.
- "Inflation is almost nonexistent," when in fact inflation has been steady at 3%.
- "Groceries are way down," when grocery prices have actually risen 1.4% between January and September.
- Claiming prescription drug prices have been cut by impossible percentages like "1,200%".
- Asserting gas prices have "plummeted to the lowest in two decades," when the national average remains around $3.08 per gallon.
Key quotes reveal the extent of Trump's misrepresentations, Dale said:
"We have almost no inflation. We're down now to 2%," Trump claimed, a statement contradicted by official economic data.
"Everybody knows that it's far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden. And the prices are way down."
"Over and over, Trump claimed overall prices have fallen since he returned to office in late January," Dale wrote.
