CNN Fact-Checker Leisurely Tackles Trump’s Latest Lies: ‘Debunked By Math Itself’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Tuesday “delivered a bunch of falsehoods” about U.S. inflation, tariffs, shopper costs and the price of prescribed drugs throughout his speech on the Detroit Economic Club, says CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale — who naturally introduced some receipts.

“Inflation hasn’t ‘stopped,’” Dale wrote Tuesday on CNN. “Consumer Prices are up during this presidential term, not ‘down.’ Grocery prices are rising, not starting to fall ‘rapidly.’ US businesses and consumers, not China, pay US tariffs on Chinese imports.”

He continued, “It’s impossible to reduce prescription drug prices by ‘thousands’ 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.”

Trump spoke for greater than an hour on Tuesday and claimed as soon as once more with no foundation in actuality that the costs for shopper items have come “down” throughout his administration, that grocery prices are “rapidly” following swimsuit, and that “inflation is stopped” in its tracks.

Dale, who commonly fact-checks Trump for CNN, added, “He 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.”

Dale started by tackling Trump’s declare about inflation being “defeated,” citing a Consumer Price Index report revealed a number of hours earlier than his speech that confirmed common shopper costs have been 2.7% greater in December than they have been a 12 months in the past.

Trump claimed elsewhere in his speech that there’s “almost no inflation” in the meanwhile.

Dale famous that the Consumer Price Index report additionally confirmed grocery costs spiking from November to December on the quickest month-to-month charge (0.7%) in additional than three years, with costs 2.4% greater in December than throughout the identical month in 2024.

“Meanwhile, grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down,” Trump mentioned.

While the president additionally claimed general “prices are down” and mentioned Democrats “caused” the affordability situation, which he has ceaselessly dismissed resulting from considerations from his personal base, Dale famous common shopper costs have been 2.2% greater in December than in January 2024.

“They’re going to be coming down thousands of percents,” Trump mentioned about the price of prescribed drugs, claiming his administration is “standing up to special interests” by slashing prices for varied drugs “by 300, 400, 500 and even 600% and more.”

“These claims are debunked by math itself,” quipped Dale, who tackled this topic earlier than.

He defined that “if 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.”

Dale famous precisely Tuesday this, in fact, “is not happening.”

Trump additionally reiterated that the price of his steep worldwide tariffs on all U.S. imports is being footed by different nations, fairly than by American importers and customers, and added falsely that “China is one of our biggest taxpayers right now.”

As for the topics, Dale mentioned he “abandoned his teleprompter” when Trump claimed he “won” Michigan throughout the 2020 election, which former President Joe Biden did, and blamed his predecessor for “letting in 25 million people” as migrants throughout his time period.

Dale cited U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which tallied below 11 million “encounters.”

His full evaluation is out there on CNN.