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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8924141" data-attributes="member: 683408">An opinion: &quot;Chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla&quot;Another &quot;opinion&quot;: “If you go back to just before the war, for the last three months, inflation was at 1.7%,” Trump <a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-before-marine-one-departure-may-12-2026/" target="_blank">said Tuesday</a>. Later in his comments to reporters, he said that “if you go from before, just before the war, we were, for the last three months, 1.7%, and now what you have is – as soon as this war is over, you’re going to see inflation go down to probably 1.5%.”In reality, the inflation rate was not 1.7% in any of the three months before the war.The <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCNS" target="_blank">year-over-year increase</a> in the Consumer Price Index <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/economy/us-cpi-consumer-price-index-november" target="_blank">was 2.7% in November 2025</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/economy/us-cpi-consumer-prices-inflation-december" target="_blank">2.7% in December 2025</a> and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/economy/us-inflation-cpi-consumer-prices-january" target="_blank">2.4% in January 2026</a>. The rate was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/economy/us-inflation-cpi-consumer-prices-february" target="_blank">2.4% again</a> in February 2026, for which nearly all the data was collected before the war that began on the last day of the month. It has not been as low as 1.7% since <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_03102021.pdf" target="_blank">early 2021</a>, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.Except the &quot;opinion&quot; is an outright lie, supported by NO facts of the economy, and contradicted by ALL facts of the economy.If your &quot;opinion&quot; is an outright lie to me, you shove your &quot;opinion&quot; right up your *ss.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8924141, member: 683408"] An opinion: "Chocolate ice cream is better than vanilla" Another "opinion": [I]“If you go back to just before the war, for the last three months, inflation was at 1.7%,”[/I] Trump [URL='https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-before-marine-one-departure-may-12-2026/']said Tuesday[/URL]. Later in his comments to reporters, he said that “[I]if you go from before, just before the war, we were, for the last three months, 1.7%, and now what you have is – as soon as this war is over, you’re going to see inflation go down to probably 1.5%.”[/I] In reality, the inflation rate was not 1.7% in any of the three months before the war. The [URL='https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCNS']year-over-year increase[/URL] in the Consumer Price Index [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/economy/us-cpi-consumer-price-index-november']was 2.7% in November 2025[/URL], [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/economy/us-cpi-consumer-prices-inflation-december']2.7% in December 2025[/URL] and [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/economy/us-inflation-cpi-consumer-prices-january']2.4% in January 2026[/URL]. The rate was [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/economy/us-inflation-cpi-consumer-prices-february']2.4% again[/URL] in February 2026, for which nearly all the data was collected before the war that began on the last day of the month. It has not been as low as 1.7% since [URL='https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_03102021.pdf']early 2021[/URL], amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Except the "opinion" is an outright lie, supported by NO facts of the economy, and contradicted by ALL facts of the economy. If your "opinion" is an outright lie to me, you shove your "opinion" right up your *ss. [/QUOTE]

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