declared<\/a>:<\/p>\n\u201cInflation is down to a perfect number, hardly any inflation at all \u2026 we\u2019ve ended Biden\u2019s inflation nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump desperately wants this to be true\u2014or at least wants you to believe it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n
Well, it isn\u2019t. Not even close.<\/p>\n
Ever since Trump announced his massive wave of tariffs in the spring, people have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. When would prices start to rise? When would consumers begin to feel the pain? At first, it seemed as if the tariffs wouldn\u2019t have the impact that so many business analysts and Democrats had warned about. Trump delayed some of the most onerous tariffs. He exempted certain products, such as automobile parts and smartphones. Some companies absorbed the additional costs.<\/p>\n
Those days are over. The other shoe has dropped. Prices are rising. The tariffs are jacking up bills and stretching family budgets. And there\u2019s no one to blame but Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is desperately trying to bend reality to his whim. He wants you to ignore your eyes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-70872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}