{"id":45098,"date":"2026-05-01T22:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45098"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:35:57","slug":"who-are-you-gonna-believe-trump-or-your-lying-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45098","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You Gonna Believe, Trump or Your Lying Eyes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/who-are-you-gonna-believe-trump-or?publication_id=277517&amp;post_id=196090233&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=16ex0z\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https3A2F2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F924f15c4-0cf9-4745-bdff-4763ef7dcaa7_1466x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:221px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The emperor\u2019s new clothes, gas prices edition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/who-are-you-gonna-believe-trump-or\">Who Are You Gonna Believe, Trump or Your Lying Eyes?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>explains how the gop and tfg lie about inflation and gas prices; chooose a timeline correctly and it looks like tfg is going great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also, lies about the prices of gas, easily checked.  but again, that&#8217;s the power move of the grifter.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"953\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38-1024x953.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45101\" style=\"width:318px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38-1024x953.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38-768x715.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38-1226x1141.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38-675x628.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/trump-admin-lying-about-gas-prices-2026-05-01_21-55-38.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emperor\u2019s new clothes, gas prices edition Source: Who Are You Gonna&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[650,603,1102,57],"class_list":["post-45098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-inflation","tag-liars","tag-tfg","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45098\/revisions\/45102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}