‘Just Not True!’ CNN’s Daniel Dale Torpedoes Trump’s Claim That Grocery Prices Are Down

CNN’s Daniel Dale torpedoed President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that grocery prices and inflation are down on Friday, emphasizing that the president’s assertions are “just not true!”

“The fact is that these claims are just not true,” Dale told CNN’s Omar Jimenez. “We know that because of the new Consumer Price Index report released this morning, which shows that from August to September, grocery prices increased again by 0.3%. That followed a 0.6% increase from July to August, which was the biggest jump in three years.”

Dale went on to cite conversations with food economists: “It very much appears that two of this president’s signature policies, specifically a crackdown on undocumented immigrants who make up a large percentage of the farm workforce and significant tariffs on imported goods, have at least contributed to the increases that Americans are seeing in the grocery aisle.”

Importantly, he noted that “it’s not just grocery inflation on which the president is making these kinds of false claims,” but about overall inflation as well.

“Inflation very much continues to exist,” clarified Dale. “Overall, consumer prices rose 0.3% from August to September. They’re up about 2.4% since President Trump returned to office in January… This rate of inflation this past September was the highest since May 2024.”

“It’s certainly true that this is lower inflation than we had during the [Joe] Biden-era peak — over 9% in 2022. But it’s also not true that grocery prices are down. It’s also not true that inflation has been vanquished,” Dale concluded.

Watch the clip above via CNN.