{"id":577511,"date":"2026-04-11T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:29:14","slug":"cant-afford-food-that-wont-stop-this-trump-crony-from-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577511\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t afford food? That won\u2019t stop this Trump crony from smiling."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Economic Council Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/11\/10\/2353147\/-Inflation-is-way-down-Trump-team-lays-a-rotten-egg\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Hassett<\/a> dragged himself to Fox Business Friday to try to polish the turd that is last month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/4\/10\/2377234\/-Inflation-surges-as-Iran-war-spirals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dismal inflation report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hassett rambled, slicing off percentage points here and there to make the recent surge in inflation sound more palatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fine performance, if I may say,\u201d host Stuart Varney replied. \u201c3.3% inflation and you smiled all the way through, as you usually do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to tell if that was a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of last year, Hassett\u2019s job has been to smile and tell Americans, who are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/3\/17\/2373557\/-Trump-team-doesn-t-care-if-Iran-war-breaks-your-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">struggling with rising costs<\/a> on everything from health care to food and housing, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/4\/3\/2376192\/-Trump-official-tells-tall-tale-about-how-the-economy-is-great-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">everything is great<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s true\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2026\/4\/9\/2377120\/-Unless-you-re-a-billionaire-Trump-just-raised-your-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">if you\u2019re a billionaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett dragged himself to Fox Business Friday to try to polish the turd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-577511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577511","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=577511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}