Here’s a serious question: Who on God’s green earth made CNN believe it has the credibility to finger-wag at President Donald Trump over inflation after salivating over Bidenomics for four years?
CNN Executive Editor David Goldman and Senior Reporter Matt Egan positioned themselves to lecture Trump over his recent 60 Minutes appearance on CBS where he said “We have no inflation” and “Our groceries are down,” which the network castigated as false.
Of course, any journalist who’s been following Trump around for any length of time knows he almost always speaks in hyperbole like a second language. But even so, the authors railed that “Trump is repeating a political mistake that haunted his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and contributed to the Democrats losing the White House: Trump appears to be denying the economic reality that people are experiencing in their everyday lives.”
We had to rub our eyes a few times before we realized Goldman and Egan actually wrote that with a straight face given CNN’s incessant love affair with former President Joe Biden’s economically illiterate spending agenda.
“Denying economic reality?” Is that what Goldman was doing when he ran this stupid headline just before the presidential election October 24, 2024: “America won the war on inflation. You still think the economy stinks.” Goldman tried to reprimand those plebeians who were still reeling from the disaster wrought on them by former President Joe Biden’s outrageous stimulus agenda: “Inflation has been tamed. Consumers are spending like crazy. Companies have more jobs available than job seekers to fill them. What more could you want, America?”
How about a little humility in admitting that you did the very thing you’re accusing Trump of doing now? How about that, you flaming hypocrite?
Then again, this is the same “Executive Editor” who bent logical reasoning into a pretzel by claiming in April that Trump’s so-called “fiction” about tumbling egg prices was now “reality.” Does that make sense to you? Don’t worry. It didn’t make sense to us either.
Oh, but this wasn’t a one-off for the Bidenomics-simping network. CNN published an August 15, 2024, item by Senior Writer Allison Morrow headlined, “The war on inflation has been won. It’s OK if you’re still angry.” At that time, headline inflation sat at 2.9 percent year-over-year, nearly identical to the latest Consumer Price index reading for September 2025 at 3.0 percent.
For goodness’s sake! CNN was trying to claim victory for Biden on inflation even as early as December 2023, just after America was still suffering the disastrous effects of the 40-year high inflation spike it endured in 2022 that carried over well into 2023. Senior Economy Writer Alicia Wallace published a story then headlined, “Inflation is nearly back to normal. But high prices have changed Americans’ lives.” To be clear, near “normal” for Wallace at that time was when prices were increasing at a 3.1 percent year-over-year rate, 0.1 percentage points higher than the 3.0 percent rate that’s currently on the books for 2025.
See the problem yet? So CNN can make stupid claims about Bidenflation that any person with two eyes, a few brain cells and a bank account could see was false. But now Trump executes his typical off-the-cuff exaggerated communication techniques and now CNN wants to play truth gatekeeper? Someone get us a bucket so we can throw up. STAT.
It’s worth noting that Trump can absolutely take a victory lap on inflation due to the fact that his economy repeatedly stupified the doomers who prophesied economic chaos under his leadership at this point, including Egan.
CNN has about as much legitimacy on the inflation issue as a chimpanzee working as a car mechanic.
