I note that Trump claimed a few days back that the US CPI inflation rate is 'very low' at 1.9%. He lied of course as he does about everything else - except for his love of Israel - because the true rate is circa 10% and has been at around that for many years which means the US economy has been in recession throughout that entire period as there's a direct correlation between that number and GDP.

As a candidate he correctly stated that official stats on GDP, inflation and unemployment were all fake as a result of book-cooking and that the stock market was a "big, fat ugly bubble". That bubble has become much bigger since he took office but he's proud of that and wants it to grow larger hence his eagerness for interest rates to be cut so that borrowers get cheaper debt at the expense of savers. Of course, instead of repeating the truth about real GDP and the unemployment rate he says he's overseeing "the greatest economy ever" rather than the largest pile of bullshit that's ever been heaped.

How do they falsify the data? Over there the two most important components of measuring inflation everywhere else in the world, which are changes in the prices of food and energy, are not part of the equation! Yes, so what everyone must consume is not part of the equation. Calculating true unemployment is another obvious con. There's 330 million US citizens of which 225 million are of working age, 95 million of whom don't work and 130 million who do yet their official unemployment rate is under 4%. I kid you not. GDP used to be calculated differently too up until the early 1980s when government spending and servicing their debt didn't count. For 30+ years then the bigger the deficit they ran and the more they ballooned their national debt, which is now above $22 trillion, the more advantageous it has been for the headline GDP figure.

Ordinary Yanks are becoming poorer at a rate of knots hence their monster homelessness/rough sleeping/drug addiction epidemic.