The Daily Blast: Trump’s Rage Boils Over at Journos as Inflation Data Takes Brutal Turn

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🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Donald Trump just got hit by crushing new inflation data: Consumer prices rose at their fastest rate in several years. Importantly, Trump’s war with Iran is a big driver of it, and he can’t find a way out. Meanwhile, a new CNN poll shows his standing on the economy sliding to its lowest point in either term. No wonder Trump erupted angrily at a reporter who quizzed him over prices, deriding her as “stupid.” He also seethed at a journalist who asked about his ballroom, calling her “dumb.” Yet despite all this, there are signs that GOP hopes are rebounding due to gerrymandering and other factors. So we talked to Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, who’s been arguing that the economic fundamentals won’t change in time for the GOP. We discuss the mixed signals in the polling data, why Trump has long been so strong on the economy, why that’s finally changing, and what Democrats can do to overcome their lingering brand problems. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.2	Donald Trump just got hit by some really terrible inflation numbers, and boy, is he in a rage about it.
0:33.2	He erupted at a reporter for asking a reasonable question about prices, seethed at another
0:38.9	reporter over his ballroom, and made an admission about ordinary Americans' economic pain
0:44.8	that was incredibly self-damaging. Yet we're in a split-screen moment. Trump's inability
0:51.5	to resolve the Iran fiasco means his travails with inflation will likely keep getting
0:56.3	worse, but we're also seeing GOP chances in the midterms rebound significantly due to redistricting.
1:03.5	So we're working through all of this with Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, who's been
1:08.3	arguing for months that Trump's political problems on the economy
1:11.8	predate the Iran war and won't be fixed if the war ends. Simon, always good to have you on.
1:18.3	Greg, it's always great to be with you. So we just learned that consumer prices spiked big time
1:23.6	last month, much of it driven by energy prices rising due to Trump's war. The consumer price
1:29.4	index is up 3.8% in April relative to last year. That's up from 2.4% before the war. But even if you
1:38.8	take out volatile food and energy costs, prices still rose by the same amount. Simon, your quick reaction to all that
1:45.8	news? Yeah. I mean, look, the Trump's tariffs and his broader economic strategy had already
1:55.4	caused the economy to slow, job growth to slow, and inflation to reignite prior to the war. And the more data that
2:03.3	we've gotten, the more incredible, it's clear he took an extraordinary risk by engaging in this war,
2:10.2	given that things were already heading in the wrong direction in the economy, which we also saw in
2:13.9	this polling data. And now we've had a couple months of post-war data, and Trump's
2:20.7	polling numbers are collapsing even further. His economic ratings are going down. We have the lowest
2:25.7	consumer confidence recorded in 65 years, and the inflation numbers are ugly. And so it's pushing
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