After Democrats won big last Tuesday campaigning on the issue of the affordability crisis, Trump and his administration officials are trying to paint a positive but inaccurate picture of economic indicators.

“I will say this: If you look at affordability, which they campaigned on, they lied,” Trump said on Friday of the Democrats’ electoral wins. “Because they talked about, ‘Oh, prices are up.’ No, no. Prices are down under the Trump administration. And they’re down substantially.”

Meanwhile, Trump administration officials took to the Sunday news shows to spread the message of good economic cheer. But actual economic indicators, such as the 3 percent inflation the U.S. saw in September, point to rising prices, although it wasn’t as bad as the 3.1 percent economists had predicted. When

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