Biden spins: “Zero percent inflation last month,” you know

As Joe Biden himself would put it: Come on, man. That’s malarkey. Granted, if I ran the White House press shop and I didn’t care about math or intellectual honesty, I’d spin today’s CPI report exactly this way. Clearly, that’s the basis for White House claims, starting with Joe Biden himself, who claimed we saw ‘zero percent inflation’ last month:

Biden: “Today we received news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of June. Zero percent.”我只是照着读稿而已😂😂#Bidenflation pic.twitter.com/k0e0sQJQAd
— 合约狗🐕 (@HYG2220) June 10, 2023 Ahem.