President Donald Trump speaks at the American Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

President Donald Trump is nothing if not gifted at crafting politically advantageous alternate realities. Through repetition, force of will and shamelessness , he’s convinced tens of millions of Americans of a host of dubious or outright-false claims – most notably that the 2020 election he lost was somehow “stolen.”

But Trump’s latest effort to rewrite reality is brazen and puzzling even by his standards.

As inflation has proven stubborn, and even ticked up, and as energy and grocery prices have continued to rise, Trump has set about trying to convince people that this isn’t the case at all.

He’s argued that the rising costs people can see and feel are actuall

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