“Fake Inflation”
Don't worry, those rises in prices are an illusion!
I had missed this bit of economic analysis by our president earlier this week:
“[W]e’re having some fake inflation because of the fuel, the energy prices.”
Perhaps that means that any additional payments can be made in imaginary dollars so as to alleviate the real pain of the fake inflation?
But, of course, if you are a narcissist who has more money than he could spend, what’s a few more bucks at the pump or at the grocery (what a word!) store?
Or, worse, at the corner store:
During a Thursday event intended to promote the Republican tax agenda, President Donald Trump seemed to veer off script, riffing about how he had never heard the term “corner store” and calling the inflation that resulted from the Iran war “fake.”
”What is a corner store?” the president said to the crowd gathered for his roundtable. “I’ve never heard that term. I know what a corner store is, but I’ve never heard it described [as] a ‘corner store.’ Who the hell wrote that?”
Thank goodness he is a very stable genius and that the White House is a well-oiled machine, else I might be worried that they don’t know what they are doing and that these “policy” moves will have long-term, global consequences!
“Riffing”? Has the press ever applied that word to any other politician doing what we’d otherwise simply call rambling? Why are they still treating Trump’s erratic behavior as some kind of improv act?
I’m old enough to remember when George Bush Elder hurt his campaign when he didn’t know the price of a gallon of milk. Ah, halcyon days those were…
There’s a specific type of ‘not knowing what you are doing’ operating here. It’s not like Trump thinks that there’s a misreporting of prices going on. That would require engagement with the real price behind the fake price. He’s more of a guy watching tv or being on social media and getting angry because people who are paid to get him angry are making him angry. By angry, I mean he’s not even sure if he’s angry any more. The only truth he understands is that everything inside him is a scam. It’s like someone pretending to think climate change is a scam and then lol’ing at those crazy scientists.
@Kylopod:
Because to admit their sanewashing of this simpleton makes them complicit for the country’s current dire straits would keep them up at night?