MaddowBlog-As inflation gets worse, Trump has nothing to offer but ignorance and incoherence [View all]

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The president boasted that he’s successfully lowered prices “incredibly.” That was nonsense, but it reflected the degree to which he’s hopelessly lost.

When Trump told Hannity that he’s successfully lowered consumer prices “incredibly,” he wasn’t just lying.

He was also making clear that he has nothing left to offer but ignorance and incoherence on the issue he was elected to address, but which he’s made vastly worse.
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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-05-15T13:12:10.541Z

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Then there’s the rhetorical angle, punctuated by a president who apparently no longer knows what to say about the problem he made worse.

A few weeks ago, for example, Trump misstated basic details about recent history on the inflation rate. That continued earlier this week, when the Republican insisted the inflation rate was 1.7% “just before the war,” which wasn’t even close to being true.

In Trump’s latest interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, which aired Thursday night, he kept this going, boasting that he has successfully lowered prices “incredibly.”

Trump: "When they talk about high prices, I inherited the high prices. I've gotten them down incredibly. In fact, if I did not make the little excursion to the country of Iran, I had to do it."

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-05-15T02:23:40.996Z

This comes a week after the president also bragged about a “very substantial” drop in gas prices that did not happen in reality.

What Trump continues to make clear is that he just doesn’t have anything coherent left in the tank. The president is peddling a combination of ignorance and self-defeating lies that the public recognizes as nonsense, not because of fact-checkers but because of their own life experiences.

This underscores the potency of Trump expressing public indifference to the economic effects of the unnecessary war he launched in the Middle East. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” he declared this week when asked about negotiations with Iran. “I don’t think about anybody.”