I have great news for Americans worried that inflation just jumped above 4%, the highest hike in three years. It turns out rising consumer prices are fantastic!

President Donald Trump, when asked on June 10 about the inflation surge, told reporters: “I love the inflation.”

Cool! Painfully high gas prices have, according to The Wall Street Journal, “erased more than a year of Americans’ wage gains,” and everything costs more, but our president and his fellow Republican leaders, who spent all of Joe Biden’s presidency saying inflation is bad, now seem to think it’s totally rad.

Next time you can’t pay your grocery bill, just tell the clerk to put it on the Republicans' tab. I’m sure they’ll have your back.

Republicans cared about inflation when Biden was president

When Biden – overseer of the inflation Republicans didn’t like – left office, the inflation rate was 2.9%. On June 10, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the annual inflation rate in May was 4.2%. One can argue that 4.2% is larger than 2.9%, but that would require the use of math, which is woke.

What’s more instructive is to recall the things Republicans said about inflation while Biden was president. (SPOILER ALERT: They did not “love the inflation.”)

At the 2024 Republican National Convention, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said with great compassion:........

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