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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Donald Trump just got hit by some really terrible inflation numbers, and boy, is he in a rage about it.

He erupted at a reporter for asking a reasonable question about prices, seethed at another reporter over his ballroom, and made an admission about ordinary

Americans' economic pain that was incredibly self-damaging. Yet we're in a split-screen moment.

Trump's inability to resolve the Iran fiasco means his travails with inflation will likely keep getting

worse, but we're also seeing GOP chances in the midterms rebound significantly due to redistricting.

So we're working through all of this with Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg,

who's been arguing for months that Trump's political problems on the economy predate the Iran war

and won't be fixed if the war ends.

Simon, always good to have you on.

Greg, it's always great to be with you.

So we just learned that consumer prices spiked big time last month, much of it driven by

energy prices rising due to Trump's war. The consumer price index is up 3.8% in April relative to last year.

That's up from 2.4% before the war. But even if you take out volatile food and energy costs,

prices still rose by the same amount. Simon, your quick reaction to all that news?

Yeah. I mean, look, the Trump's tariffs

and his broader economic strategy had already caused the economy to slow, job growth to

slow, and inflation to reignite prior to the war. And the more data that we've gotten, the more incredible, it's clear

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