Iran War, Tariffs Drive Inflation Up, Trump Still Blames Biden
President Donald Trump told an Arizona crowd Wednesday that President Joe Biden is to blame for inflation, hours after the government reported that consumer prices had climbed again -- with gas prices driving the increase.
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US inflation jumps to 3.7% as Iran war drives up prices ft.trib.al/XB0ybOW[image or embed] -- Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) 8:43 AM · Oct 14, 2026
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It's Biden's fault the orange diaper sniper bankrupted multiple casinos and is mentioned 38,000 times in the Trumpstein Files.
#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-10-15 12:53 AM | Reply
Producer prices see largest rise in four years
thehill.com
The necrotic------------------- is on another roll.
#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-10-15 11:24 AM | Reply
You ------- losers gave Obama credit for the economy in Trump's first term, then blamed the economy in Biden's term on Trump. Trump may be wrong on this but he's not doing anything the others haven't done.
#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 12:28 PM | Reply
" Trump may be wrong on this but he's not doing anything the others haven't done."
Not true.
Trump wanted a third stimulus 42% larger than Biden's.
Inflation would've been WORSE under Trump.
#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-15 12:33 PM | Reply
-Trump wanted
Almost nearly could've
OK raetard.
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 01:05 PM | Reply
"Almost nearly could've"
Wow
Now you've been reduced to fantasy. You have to pretend a newly re-elected Trump wouldn't have gotten his way.
You also have to pretend the inflation under Biden wouldn't have happened with a 42% larger stimulus.
That's MAJOR math moron territory!
Nice werk, Brownie!
#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-15 01:08 PM | Reply
-You have to pretend a newly re-elected Trump wouldn't have gotten his way.
And you're retarded, because Trump didn't get his way. Trump didn't serve as President from 2020-2024.
So, you're reduced to using a hypothetical to defend your opinion on the economy.
#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 01:13 PM | Reply
It was close enough for them 120 Iranian school girls.
Raetard.
#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-10-15 01:14 PM | Reply
"you're retarded, because Trump didn't get his way"
That's what happens when you lose a Presidential election.
"you're reduced to using a hypothetical to defend your opinion on the economy."
What a riot.
Never took statistics, did you? No idea what a Macro Dial is, right?
#9 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-15 01:18 PM | Reply
-Never took statistics, did you?
I know enough to know, I pointed out that you clowns blamed Trump for Biden's economy and your response was "bUh TrUmP wAs GuNnA wAnT mOrE bAiLoUt mOnEy!!!!!"
It doesn't matter, anyone who would've President in 2020 was sunk politically. As states begin to shut down, the clock started ticking. Anyone who had half a brain would've tried to keep the wheels on the bus.
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 01:33 PM | Reply
-It was close enough for them 120 Iranian school girls.
Then maybe stop putting military instillations right next to schools.
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 01:34 PM | Reply
You realize we do that all the time, in fact have schools ON military bases.
#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-15 01:35 PM | Reply
"blamed Trump for Biden's economy" ... "anyone who would've President in 2020 was sunk politically"
Hahaha!
So the blame for 2020 is because it was Biden's economy, but you're also saying Trump's 2020 economy... wouldn't have been any different. Hahahahaha!!!
#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 01:38 PM | Reply
"I know enough to know"
You just took the position a 42% higher stimulus wouldn't have resulted in higher inflation. That answer will get you flunked from an Econ 101 class.
But congrats...you're top of the class at Dunning-Kruger!
#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-15 01:40 PM | Reply
Then maybe stop putting military instillations right next to schools. #11 | Posted by lfthndthrds
You realize we do that all the time, in fact have schools ON military bases. #12 | Posted by truthhurts
ThAt'S dIfFeReNt!!!
#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 01:41 PM | Reply
"your response was "bUh TrUmP wAs GuNnA wAnT mOrE bAiLoUt mOnEy"
Yeah...getting MORE of something goosing inflation will only goose inflation more. Duh.
It's like you don't understand the basic concepts of greater than and lesser than.
#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-15 01:42 PM | Reply
"Half a brain." #10 | Posted by lfthndthrds
#17 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-15 02:05 PM | Reply
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds
Texas puts exploding chemical plants next to schools. Cause regulations against that would be communist.
#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-15 02:39 PM | Reply
ThAt'S dIfFeReNt!!! #15 | POSTED BY SNOOFY
Of course it is, the base came first.
#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-15 02:41 PM | Reply
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds
Actually most leaders who led their nation through early covid got re elected.
Trump was rejected because he ------ up so uniquely and badly.
#20 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-15 02:41 PM | Reply
I bet you the plants were there first.
#21 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-15 02:42 PM | Reply
Like Putin? Maduro? those leaders?
#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-10-15 02:42 PM | Reply
#19 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT
Duh? Most bases were located on cheap land and the cities grew up around them. That does not justify mass murder of civilians.
Large bases function like small cities. They attract tens of thousands of service members, their families, defense contractors, and civilian workers.
We know this.
As I understand it this particular military action was based on a faulty decision by AI based on out of date information.
#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-10-15 02:55 PM | Reply
#21 | Posted by oneironaut
Oh then texas puts schools next to exploding chemical plants. Much smarter.
#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-15 02:58 PM | Reply
"I bet you the plants were there first."
Speakstupid mispoke.
Either he meant Fertilizer plant or he meant California.
Here is a chemical plant in Orange County California that experienced a leak.....
en.wikipedia.org
At the time of the chemical leak, the facility employed at least 540 people, according to a 2024 news release, and an expansion for a new production line was scheduled to be completed in January 2027.[5] Garden Grove city officials issued a permit for a 34,000-square-foot (3,200 m2) expansion of the facility on May 19, 2026, days before the incident. On its website, GKN Aerospace cited increasing demand for the F-35 fighter jet as the reason for expansion.[6]
There are those ------ Texas regulations at work.......
#25 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 02:59 PM | Reply
#22 | Posted by oneironaut
Here you go stupid:
Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand) " Implemented an early "zero-COVID" elimination strategy; won a historic landslide re-election in October 2020. Justin Trudeau (Canada) " Oversaw early national border closures and major economic aid; won re-election in September 2021. Emmanuel Macron (France) " Implemented nationwide lockdowns and economic relief programs; won re-election in April 2022. Antnio Costa (Portugal) " Led early European containment efforts and vaccination rollouts; won an absolute majority re-election in January 2022. Mark Rutte (Netherlands) " Directed the Dutch "intelligent lockdown" policy; secured re-election in March 2021. Andrej Plenkovi (Croatia) " Managed early containment restrictions in spring 2020; won re-election in July 2020. Andrew Holness (Jamaica) " Executed early travel restrictions and curfews; won re-election in September 2020.
(Note: South Korea's Moon Jae-in could not run again due to term limits, but his ruling party won a massive parliamentary landslide in April 2020 based on their pandemic response.)
#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-15 03:00 PM | Reply
Is someone making the argument Hillary Clinton would have been re-elected if she won?
She would have been slaughtered, IMO.
but not because it was her fault....but because the American people would have blamed her no matter what good she did.
#27 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 03:03 PM | Reply
#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 01:41 PM | Reply | Flag
It's different indeed. Wonder if you know why/
#28 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 03:16 PM | Reply
-Actually most leaders who led their nation through early covid got re elected.
So did our leader, dingbat.
#29 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 03:18 PM | Reply
So did our (Dear) leader, dingbat.
#29 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
Had Donald not been president at the time, COVID would have killed him.
#30 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-15 03:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
So did our leader, dingbat
The moron who defunded the CDC so he could give himself a tax cut and spent several months calling Covid a democratic Hoax? Spreading lies and misinformation about the virus and allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to die?
That idiot lost in 2020.
It's insane you think of that treasonous Russian asset as a leader.
What a pathetic loser you are.
#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 03:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1
politicians have been pointing the finger on inflation forever.
Americans don't understand it and the people who do understand it use it to their advantage.
Which is why who blames who matters very little.
#32 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 03:38 PM | Reply
And what do you call it when a president places tariffs on all of our trade partners and starts an unnecessary war, choking the world's gas supply?
Biden's fault?
Probably Obama's fault.
Anyone but Trump!
"It's just politics!" -Normalizing Ebby
#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 03:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
-And what do you call it when a president places tariffs on all of our trade partners and starts an unnecessary war, choking the world's gas supply?
so, do you want my answer to that or would you rather just answer for me so you can declare some non-existent victory?
#34 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 03:46 PM | Reply
-So did our leader, dingbat
So what does all that garbage have to do with Trump's reelection?
#35 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 03:48 PM | Reply
#35 was for #31
#36 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-15 03:49 PM | Reply
So what does all that garbage have to do with Trump's reelection? #35 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS
Well, he lost in 2020.
So your #29 is incorrect.
Plus it's laughable you see Trump as a leader.
#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 03:57 PM | Reply
do you want my answer
I don't see there being any value to it.
You showed up to make excuses for Trump.
It's someone else's fault.
#38 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 03:58 PM | Reply
-I don't see there being any value to it.
okay then.
#39 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 03:59 PM | Reply
ThAt'S dIfFeReNt!!! #15 | Posted by snoofy
It's different indeed. Wonder if you know why/ #28 | Posted by lfthndthrds
WhY iS iT dIfFeReNt?!?!?
#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 04:04 PM | Reply
So what does all that garbage have to do with Trump's reelection? #35 | Posted by lfthndthrds
It has more to do with his failure to get re-elected.
#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 04:05 PM | Reply
Which is why who blames who matters very little. #32 | Posted by eberly
Republicans blaming immigrants and trans people for America's problems is why Trump is President. So, it actually matters quite a bit who blames who. But you already knew that.
#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 04:06 PM | Reply
-Had Donald not been president at the time, COVID would have killed him.
how so?
#43 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 04:07 PM | Reply
-politicians have been pointing the finger on inflation forever.
my point is that people don't understand economic indicators or measured factors such as inflation enough to believe in the blame game. The finger pointing.
politicians and pundits have historically pointed fingers forever regardless but it's white noise to most. People who gobble that up have already made up their minds politically which is why I say it matters very little.
And yes, what Trump has done with regards to tariffs and Iran has a direct and significant impact on inflation.
So if there is a time when you can truly place the blame of inflation on a sitting president........it's now.
Or rather.....it should be now.
#44 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 04:12 PM | Reply
Republicans blaming immigrants and trans people for America's problems is why Trump is President.
"Those Transgenders wanted to rape your daughters!"
-Same people as the ones who see nothing wrong with fraternity gang rapes.
-Same people as the ones who ignore women accusing Trump of raping them as children.
-Same people as the ones who see nothing wrong with a pregnant ten year old.
#45 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-15 04:16 PM | Reply
#25 | Posted by eberly
Are fertilizers not chemicals idiot? en.wikipedia.org
#46 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-15 04:18 PM | Reply
politicians have been pointing the finger on inflation forever. Americans don't understand it and the people who do understand it use it to their advantage. Which is why who blames who matters very little. #32 | Posted by eberly
It's not so much pointing their finger at inflation, but what they attribute inflation to.
Biden did a lot of attributing inflation to corporate greed, which turned out to be one of the major drivers of inflation. Trump did a lot of attributing inflation to Biden, which is far less true, and from the angle where it is true, it's equally true of Trump. So, those aren't really the same thing. One holds a lot more truth than the other.
Though I would argue you're right about something else. Most Americans don't really understand why the Fed is directed to maintain a low rate of inflation, and not, say, nearly zero inflation. The group who benefits the most economically from sustained low inflation is the very rich, more than any other economic bracket. Once you're liquid enough to make ends meet, storing wealth in debt is both tax-advantaged and mathematically advantaged, thanks to inflation. Most Americans don't understand that. Because people understand things that affect them personally, and for average Americans, their biggest purchase ever is their home, which is chump change.
#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-15 04:19 PM | Reply
#29 | Posted by lfthndthrds
Nope. He botched covid so badly that he LOST THE ELECTION. Your cult just isn't allowed to admit it.
#48 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-10-15 04:20 PM | Reply
fertilizers are called fertilizers rather than chemicals for a reason.
either way, you're a moron who probably lives not far from the CHEMICAL plant in Orange County that you didn't even know was there.
while crying about the lack of regulations in Texas.
Which is True....that FERTILIZER plant in West, TX (what I knew you were talking about) shouldn't be where it was.
Ammonium Nitrate is some very dangerous shit.
See OKC bombing
#49 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 04:23 PM | Reply
This is why I don't usually talk to speakstupid.
It's not fair.
I feel bad afterward.
#50 | Posted by eberly at 2026-10-15 04:24 PM | Reply
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