President Donald Trump on Tuesday bragged about how he’s improved the economy ... well, rather, what the economy could look like.The president, in remarks at the White House Congressional Picnic, rattled off a list of his perceived achievements before touching on the economic state of affairs.“We have an economy — people aren’t seeing it yet — when we inherited, when we started, we had the highest inflation in the history of our country,” he began, repeating a lie about inflation he has told time and again.“And we actually had just before the war, before the energy forced other things up, but — up or down. We had the best numbers.”He continued to falsely claim that the inflation rate was at “1.6%“ in the three months prior to his unpopular Iran war (it wasn’t) before adding that Americans were “going to see numbers like that again.”Trump’s “people aren’t seeing it yet” talk about the economy arrives as new CBS News/YouGov polling, taken in the wake of him shoving people’s financial situations to the side, shows a majority of Americans (57%) say he’s making them financially “worse off.” Prices at the pump have leaped, as have U.S. consumer prices, since the start of the war.Social media users on X used Trump’s asterisk for his economy against him, with one user writing “people aren’t seeing it yet because it doesn’t fucking exist” and another bluntly declaring that “it’s not going well.”The economy is good for the wealthy and insider traders…Felon 47 is trying to gaslight folks into a reality that doesn’t exist and people’s bank accounts and empty pantries don’t lie!! https://t.co/mG6xDPe1pe— Charli Huxley (@ImKnotTheOne) May 20, 2026MAGA unironically just living the quote…“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command” https://t.co/vxVak9ibKW— Kevin ⚔️ (@TheTree) May 20, 2026Is the good economy in the room with us right now?— Chris Robinson (@ChrisRobinsonNJ) May 19, 2026Meanwhile, everyone's struggling to afford gas and groceries. Fucking moron.— thirty313 (@thirty313) May 19, 2026Close