President Donald Trump departs the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s recent commentary on the economy is drawing plenty of comparisons to then-President Joe Biden’s.

In his most dismissive remarks on the topic to date, Trump ratcheted up his downplaying of Americans’ affordability concerns in a Fox News interview on Monday. He even called them a “con job by Democrats” and said the “polls are fake.”

Four years ago, Biden and his administration made a series of wayward predictions and comments about just how significant a problem inflation would prove to be. And they wound up paying a significant political price for their economic Pollyanna act.

But the situations aren’t that analogous.

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