Right here’s a critical query: Who on God’s inexperienced earth made CNN consider it has the credibility to finger-wag at President Donald Trump over inflation after salivating over Bidenomics for 4 years?
CNN Government Editor David Goldman and Senior Reporter Matt Egan positioned themselves to lecture Trump over his latest 60 Minutes look on CBS the place he mentioned “Now we have no inflation” and “Our groceries are down,” which the community castigated as false.
In fact, any journalist who’s been following Trump round for any size of time is aware of he virtually at all times speaks in hyperbole virtually as a second language. Besides, the authors railed that “Trump is repeating a political mistake that haunted his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and contributed to the Democrats dropping the White Home: Trump seems to be denying the financial actuality that persons are experiencing of their on a regular basis lives.”
We needed to rub our eyes just a few occasions earlier than we realized Goldman and Egan truly wrote that with a straight face given CNN’s incessant love affair with former President Joe Biden’s economically illiterate spending agenda.
“Denying financial actuality?” Is that what Goldman was doing when he ran this silly headline simply earlier than the presidential election October 24, 2024: “America received the struggle on inflation. You continue to suppose the economic system stinks.” Goldman tried to reprimand these plebeians who have been nonetheless reeling from the catastrophe wrought on them by former President Joe Biden’s outrageous stimulus agenda: “Inflation has been tamed. Customers are spending like loopy. Firms have extra jobs out there than job seekers to fill them. What extra might you need, America?”
How about slightly humility in admitting that you just did the very factor you’re accusing Trump of doing now? How about that, you flaming hypocrite?
Then once more, this is identical “Government Editor” who bent logical reasoning right into a pretzel by claiming in April that Trump’s so-called “fiction” about tumbling egg costs was now “actuality.” Does that make sense to you? Don’t fear. It didn’t make sense to us both.
Oh, however this wasn’t a one-off for the Bidenomics-simping community. CNN printed an August 15, 2024, merchandise by Senior Author Allison Morrow headlined, “The struggle on inflation has been received. It’s OK if you happen to’re nonetheless offended.” At the moment, headline inflation sat at 2.9 % year-over-year, almost equivalent to the newest Client Worth index studying for September 2025 at 3.0 %.
For goodness’s sake! CNN was making an attempt to assert victory for Biden on inflation at the same time as early as December 2023, simply after America was nonetheless struggling the disastrous results of the 40-year excessive inflation spike it endured in 2022 that carried over nicely into 2023. Senior Financial system Author Alicia Wallace printed a narrative then headlined, “Inflation is almost again to regular. However excessive costs have modified People’ lives.” To be clear, close to “regular” for Wallace at the moment was when costs have been growing at a 3.1 % year-over-year price, 0.1 proportion factors greater than the three.0 % price that’s at the moment on the books for 2025.
See the issue but? So CNN could make silly claims about Bidenflation that any particular person with two eyes, just a few mind cells and a checking account might see was false. However now Trump executes his typical off-the-cuff exaggerated communication methods and now CNN desires to play fact gatekeeper? Somebody get us a bucket so we are able to throw up. STAT.
It’s price noting that Trump can completely take a victory lap on inflation on account of the truth that his economic system repeatedly stupified the doomers who prophesied financial chaos beneath his management at this level, together with Egan.
CNN has about as a lot legitimacy on the inflation concern as a chimpanzee working as a automobile mechanic.
