Americans anxious about rising prices have been told by Donald Trump that they are “so damn lucky” he won the 2024 election.

The president used the annual McDonald’s Impact Summit to argue that his administration had tamed the “mess” he inherited from President Joe Biden, and that tariff-driven revenues and White House investment plans had pushed the country toward what he described as “normal inflation.”

“Nobody has done what we’ve done in terms of pricing,” Trump told McDonald’s franchise owners and execs during a rambling speech in Washington, D.C.

“Government jobs were going up. Real jobs were going down. So you would’ve had that catastrophe, and on top of it, instead of 20 trillion coming in, you would’ve had 10 trillion leaving our country.

“In other words, you would’ve had a ca

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