President “Geriatric Joe” Biden Once Again Lying But This Time It’s About Inflation

Here was President “Geriatric Joe” Biden’s response to a question on inflation during his joint press conference on 10 April 2024 with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan:

 “But, look, we have dramatically reduced inflation from 9 percent down to close to 3 percent.  We’re in a situation where we’re better situated than we were when we took office where we — inflation was skyrocketing.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/04/10/remarks-by-president-biden-and-prime-minister-kishida-fumio-of-japan-in-joint-press-conference/ 

Either President “Geriatric” Joe Biden was having another one of his all too frequent “senior moments” or he was just outright lying. President Trump took office on 20 January 2017 when inflation was at 2.5% and over his 4 years in office annual inflation was 2017 2.1%; 2018 2.4%; 2019 1.8%; 2020 1.2%; and when he left office on 20 January 2021 he handed over to President Biden an inflation of 1.4% that month. So how did President Biden do? Here are his annual inflation numbers: 2021 4.7%; 2022 8.0%; 2023 4.1% and 1Q2024 3.3%. That is what Biden called: “better situated than we were when we took office where we — inflation was skyrocketing.” what a crock or as Biden would say: “a load of malarkey.” Progress in “Biden Speak” is after you have driven inflation up from 1.4% to 9.1% during your watch, any reduction is “progress.”

Trump never even had a single 3% or above month during his entire time in office and had months below 1% while except for his first two months while he was still benefiting from Trump’s economy, Biden never had a single month below 3% and 23 of his 39 months in office inflation was over 5%. He even had a month over 9% on Inflation.

I’m not surprised that this Biden gaffe was not mentioned in any of the Left-Leaning press including the Washington Post. There are “lies of omission” where a story is misleading because of what is left out and “lies of commission” where a story knowingly contains falsehoods Seems the WaPo is an expert in both types. Hence, their new tag line: Democracy Dies in Darkness and the WaPo is Turning Out the Lights.

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https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/#google_vignette