{"id":35659,"date":"2026-08-10T02:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=35659"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:54:45","slug":"trump-shares-wildly-deceptive-chart-making-his-inflation-numbers-seem-dramatically-better-than-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=35659","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shares Wildly Deceptive Chart Making His Inflation Numbers Seem Dramatically Better Than They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5745720\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5745720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5745720\" src=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26154769821602-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"trump\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5745720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo Credit: Alex Brandon\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> shared a chart on Sunday which made inflation during his second term look great in comparison to other modern presidents \u2014 but it wasn&#8217;t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.<\/p>\n<p>The president shared <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117067399388398239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video<\/a> on Truth Social showing inflation at 4.71% at Month 18 during his second term; the video stacked that figure from &#8220;Trump II&#8221; up against terms from other presidents like <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>, <strong>George W. Bush<\/strong>, and <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>, and showed Trump II sliding down the ranks to the bottom of the inflation list as the clip hit Month 48.<\/p>\n<p>But the clip \u2014 complete with dramatic music in the background \u2014 was misleading, because it assumes inflation will stay the same from Month 18 to Month 48 during Trump&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the presidents compared after 1.5 years, based on the clip Trump posted:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5749626\" src=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TrumpInflation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"1164\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump shared the video shortly after his daughter-in-law and Fox News host <strong>Lara Trump<\/strong> posted it on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow. Great chart,&#8221; Lara Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This chart compares cumulative inflation across the last 10 presidential terms, with every presidency starting from the same baseline,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>She then said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>*Trump II is only through Month 18 because, inconveniently, we have not yet developed time travel.<\/p>\n<p>This is cumulative CPI-U inflation, not the annual inflation rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can watch the clip via her Instagram below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 2px)\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Db03DB9NPWp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<div style=\"display: flex;flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: 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24px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 224px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 144px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center;white-space: nowrap\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Db03DB9NPWp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Lara Trump (@laraleatrump)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president shared both the video and Lara Trump&#8217;s caption on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s post comes a day after CNN data guru <strong>Harry Enten<\/strong> said the economy is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/woof-cnn-data-guru-breaks-down-trumps-top-5-biggest-drops-in-polling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> top issue the president has lost support on<\/a>, with his net favorability plummeting 42 points from +9% in his first term to -33% currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/cnn-anchor-breaks-new-inflation-jump-much-much-higher-than-when-trump-took-office\/\">it\u2019s inflation<\/a>,\u201d Enten said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"qualified qualified-4\">He said inflation wasn\u2019t even polled as an issue at this point in Trump\u2019s first term, but he now has a -50% approval rating in CNN\u2019s latest poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went back through the history books\u2026 no president before President Trump had a negative 50 point or worse net approval\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-straight-up-says-i-love-the-inflation-when-pressed-on-latest-numbers\/\">rating on inflation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump-shares-wildly-deceptive-chart-making-his-inflation-numbers-seem-dramatically-better-than-they-are\/\">Trump Shares Wildly Deceptive Chart Making His Inflation Numbers Seem Dramatically Better Than They Are<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo Credit: Alex Brandon\/AP Photo) President Donald Trump shared a chart on Sunday which made inflation during his 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