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‘Defeated Biden inflation crisis’: CNN reports lowest inflation since March 2021 under Trump

February 14, 2026 | | Print Article

All signs pointed to another promise kept by President Donald Trump, as even a CNN report depicted how he “defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis.”

Try as they might — and have, repeatedly — the economic data generated by the president’s America First policies proved beyond the reach of corporate media’s typical spin. As such, while a CNN report marked the contrast in rates from the start of President Joe Biden’s administration to little more than a year after Trump’s return to the White House, there was no getting around the documented improvement.

Sharing a segment from CNN where senior reporter Matt Egan detailed the uptick int the consumer price index at 02.% over the last month and 2.4% over the last years, “beating expectations” as an eight-month low was achieved for annual inflation,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt commented, “President Trump defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis — just like he promised.”

The clip had originally been posted by the White House Rapid Response account and, while Egan had tried to temper the success by calling out, “It’s been a little bit bumpy, but it has improved,” he had turned to the truly devastating detail regarding Biden’s busted Build Back Better economy, “Core inflation came in at 2.5%. That’s notable because that’s the lowest annual inflation rate for core since March of 2021, before the inflation crisis.”

As a reminder, while reactions to tariffs were faulted for upticks during 2025, they did not compare to the spike under Biden, where a 40-year-high saw the then-commander-in-chief attempting to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for overseeing 9.1% inflation.

Measurable impacts in daily life were highlighted by White House policy communications director Jacki Kotkiewicz as she compared the decrease in prices on goods under Trump with the dramatic spike in prices experienced during the Biden administration.

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This included eggs down 34.2% compared to a 110.3% increase, fuel oil down 4.2% compared to an uptick of 52%, and baby formula down 1% compared to a 30.2% surge. Worth noting, the cost increase of baby formula was only part of the problem, as parents had struggled to even obtain the needed goods during shortages throughout 2022.

In addition to the changing prices, a Fox News report shared by Florida’s Voice News’ Eric Daugherty called out how “The Fake News and Experts got it wrong again,” as a decrease in real wages under Biden by 1.4% had nearly been completely course corrected by Trump, as his first year marked an increase in wages by 1.25%.

“HOLY CRAP! The rate of real wage growth has SURGED +189% under President Trump from Biden — this is a jaw-dropping victory,” he wrote as the report made the case for further rate cuts by the Federal Reserve when also factoring in the latest jobs report that saw 130,000 jobs added and unemployment falling to 4.3% with increased labor participation.

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