WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, “love” it.

Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn’t dismiss the affordability issue as a “hoax” that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living.

Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, Trump praised the numbers.

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    5 days ago

    He’s also trying (and failing, hard) to pull a Netenyahoo: Start a forever war to justify staying in office forever.

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      There’s some truth to this.

      I’m strongly anti-war myself and remember vividly Fareed Zakaria, the supposed liberal, on CNN speaking of Donald in glowing terms after he decided to drop a MOAB on Afghanistan. I’m certain Donald remembers how well the liberals spoke of him when he decided to escalate their forever war too.

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        4 days ago

        Don’t leave out Clinton praising Trump’s Iran strikes. There never been a Democrat that wasn’t foaming at the mouth over war.