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President Donald Trump has concocted a \u201cfantasy world\u201d where prices were low in the months before he began his Iran war, says CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale. Prices are up and Americans are \u201cunhappy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen he\u2019s been asked about the inflation or the unhappiness, Trump has repeatedly responded with lies \u2014 fictional stories about how low prices supposedly were before the war,\u201d Dale reports.<\/p>\n

He suggests that \u2014 unlike the president \u2014 consumers have a good memory of what prices were like in the days before the Iran war.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the president has concocted a fantasy \u2014 of sub-$2 gas, sub-2 percent inflation, and generally reduced prices \u2014 that bears little resemblance to the actual state of the country prior to the first strikes against Iran on February 28,\u201d Dale writes.<\/p>\n

For instance, on Tuesday at the White House congressional picnic, Trump told attendees that \u201cinflation was at 1.6 percent for the last three months just prior to the war.\u201d Last week, he had said it was 1.7 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither number is accurate,\u201d Dale notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe year-over-year increase in the Consumer Price Index was 2.7 percent in November 2025, 2.7 percent in December 2025 and 2.4 percent in January 2026,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe inflation rate was 2.4 percent again in February 2026, for which nearly all the data was collected before the war began on the last day of the month.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, it jumped to 3.3 percent and last month, 3.8 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe inherited high prices and we got the prices down, and we got them down to numbers that in some cases people have not seen before,\u201d Trump said at Tuesday\u2019s picnic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know, when they talk about high prices, I inherited the high prices,\u201d he told Fox News last week. \u201cI\u2019m getting them down; I\u2019ve got them down incredibly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale explains that while some prices may have gone down, \u201cthe president keeps talking as if overall <\/em>prices were down before the war \u2014 or even are down overall today \u2014 and that is clearly not true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump continued the fantasy with gas prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had numbers that nobody\u2019s seen in a long time. So you had $2 a gallon,\u201d he told reporters on May 7. \u201cWe were down \u2014 I think you were $1.85, $1.90 in Iowa, and a lot of other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale hit Trump with a fact-check: \u201cNope.\u201d<\/p>\n

The day before the Iran war began, the national average price of gas was $2.98 a gallon, according to AAA.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for Iowa? Its average price for regular gas on both February 27 and February 28 was $2.64 per gallon, according to AAA,\u201d Dale said.<\/p>\n

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Now?<\/p>\n

According to AAA, the national average price of gas for Wednesday is $4.56.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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