{"id":407084,"date":"2026-01-14T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:56:10","slug":"cnn-fact-checker-leisurely-tackles-trumps-latest-lies-debunked-by-math-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407084\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Fact-Checker Leisurely Tackles Trump\u2019s Latest Lies: \u2018Debunked By Math Itself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday \u201cdelivered a bunch of falsehoods\u201d about U.S. inflation, tariffs, consumer prices and the cost of prescription drugs during his speech at the Detroit Economic Club, says CNN<\/a> fact-checker Daniel Dale<\/a> \u2014 who naturally brought some receipts.<\/p>\n

\u201cInflation hasn\u2019t \u2018stopped,\u2019\u201d Dale wrote Tuesday on CNN<\/a>. \u201cConsumer Prices are up during this presidential term, not \u2018down.\u2019 Grocery prices are rising, not starting to fall \u2018rapidly.\u2019 US businesses and consumers, not China, pay US tariffs on Chinese imports.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to reduce prescription drug prices by \u2018thousands\u2019 of percentage points, since this would mean Americans would be getting paid to acquire their medicines. President Donald Trump made numerous false claims about inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump spoke for more than an hour on Tuesday and claimed once again with no basis in reality that the prices for consumer goods have come \u201cdown\u201d during his administration<\/a>, that grocery costs are \u201crapidly\u201d following suit, and that \u201cinflation is stopped\u201d in its tracks.<\/p>\n

Dale, who regularly<\/a> fact-checks Trump for CNN<\/a>, added, \u201cHe also delivered a bunch of falsehoods about broader economic subjects and about a variety of other issues he abandoned his teleprompter to discuss, including elections and immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale began by tackling Trump\u2019s claim about inflation being \u201cdefeated,\u201d citing a Consumer Price Index report<\/a> published several hours before his speech that showed average consumer prices were 2.7% higher in December than they were a year ago.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed elsewhere in his speech<\/a> that there is \u201calmost no inflation\u201d at the moment.<\/p>\n

Dale noted that the Consumer Price Index report also showed grocery prices<\/a> spiking from November to December at the fastest month-to-month rate (0.7%) in more than three years, with prices 2.4% higher in December than during the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down,\u201d Trump<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

While the president also claimed overall \u201cprices are down\u201d and said Democrats<\/a> \u201ccaused\u201d the affordability issue, which he has frequently dismissed<\/a> due to concerns from his own base<\/a>, Dale noted average consumer prices were 2.2% higher in December than in January 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to be coming down thousands of percents,\u201d Trump said about the cost of prescription drugs, claiming his administration is \u201cstanding up to special interests\u201d by slashing costs for various medications \u201cby 300, 400, 500 and even 600% and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TrumpTrump also falsely claimed Tuesday that he won the Michigan vote during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

Ryan Sun\/Associated Press<\/p>\n

\u201cThese claims are debunked by math itself,\u201d quipped Dale, who tackled this subject before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He explained that \u201cif the president magically got drug companies to reduce the prices of all their drugs to $0, that would be a 100% cut, while a decline of more than 100 percentage points would mean that Americans would get paid to acquire their medications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale noted accurately Tuesday this, of course<\/a>, \u201cis not happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also reiterated that the cost of his steep international tariffs on all U.S. imports is being footed by other countries, rather than by American importers and consumers<\/a>, and added falsely that \u201cChina is one of our biggest taxpayers right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the subjects, Dale said he \u201cabandoned his teleprompter\u201d when Trump claimed he \u201cwon\u201d Michigan during the 2020 election, which former President Joe Biden did<\/a>, and blamed his predecessor for \u201cletting in 25 million people\u201d as migrants during his term.<\/p>\n

Dale cited U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a>, which tallied under 11 million \u201cencounters.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

His full analysis is available on CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump on Tuesday \u201cdelivered a bunch of falsehoods\u201d about U.S. inflation, tariffs, consumer prices and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,150809,2120,12],"class_list":["post-407084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-daniel-dale","tag-detroit","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}