U.S. President Donald Trump is determined to blame Biden and Democrats for consumer prices that have risen during the year since he returned to the White House.

He summed it up succinctly: "They caused the high prices and we're bringing them down."

The president has consistently blamed Biden for inflation even as his own aggressive implementation of policies has pushed up prices that had been settling down after spiking in 2022 to a four-decade high. Inflation began to accelerate after Trump announced his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs in April.

Companies warned that the import taxes could be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices and reduced hiring, yet Trump continues to insist that inflation has faded.

Earlier, Trump said his White House chief of staff Susie Wiles told him he needs to start campaigning to help Republicans in the midterm elections.

"She said, "We have to start campaigning, sir.' I said, 'I won,'" Trump told the crowd at his rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.

But Trump said that Wiles said that the president was needed to help Republicans in next year's elections to decide control of the House and Senate.

Voters generally favor the party out of power in the White House during the midterm elections.