CNN host Jake Tapper hit President Donald Trump’s eyebrow-raising economy brag with a brutal reality check.

On Tuesday, Trump, 79, told Politico’s Dasha Burns that he would give himself a modest “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” in how he has dealt with the economy.

When pressed, he leaned on an old excuse. “I inherited a mess,” he said. “Prices were at an all-time high when I came in. Prices are coming down substantially,” he claimed, despite the facts showing a different picture.

Tapper seized on this during his CNN show, The Lead, on Tuesday evening. He invoked just a handful of a flurry of recent polls that suggest Americans aren’t buying Trump’s economic bluster.

“The reality, however, is that Americans continue to struggle with rising costs and are increasingly holding Trump respon

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