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In a Truth Social post on Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration is successfully addressing the affordability crisis, despite complaining last month that the term “affordability” had been invented by the media to smear him.

Trump’s post — which borrowed a headline from an article on a right-wing website, which he provided the link to — claimed that prices were improving for Americans on three key issues.

“Cheaper drugs, cheaper beef, cheaper gas. Trump lines up fall affordability before Labor Day,” the post from the president claims.

The words match exactly a headline from a website called Just the News, which is rated as “extreme right” by the media watchdog Media Bias/Fact Check. That site also rates Just the News as “mixed” in terms of providing factual evidence to its readers, “due to numerous failed fact checks and the promotion of conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda.”

The article in question purports that supposedly lower prices in the U.S. put Trump and Republicans “in a better position to motivate voters going into the midterm elections in November,” and that “Americans are enjoying lower prices to stay healthy, eat and travel.”

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Most Americans disagree.

According to an Economist/YouGov survey published earlier this week, nearly three in four Americans, 74 percent, rate the current state of the economy as only “fair” or “poor,” with just 23 percent calling the current economic situation “good” or “excellent.” Moreover, 57 percent describe the current........

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