Inflation Crashes to 2.7%—Trump’s Playbook Schools the 'Experts'

• Inflation Drop

  • Inflation fell unexpectedly to 2.7%, which the author claims validates Trump’s economic strategy.

• Energy Policy Impact

  • Deregulation and expansion of domestic oil and gas production lowered energy costs, reducing transportation and manufacturing expenses across the economy.

• Tariffs and Trade

  • Contrary to predictions of price hikes and supply chain chaos, tariffs pressured foreign producers to absorb costs, stabilized markets, and boosted U.S. manufacturing.

• Deregulation

  • Cutting federal regulations reduced compliance costs and “hidden inflation,” enabling businesses to operate more efficiently and keep prices down.

• Market Confidence

  • Trump’s leadership restored confidence, reducing volatility and inflationary expectations.

• Fiscal Discipline

  • Signals of government spending restraint reassured markets and contributed to lower inflation expectations.

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Good Friday morning. It's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update. And this episode
is gonna deal with some great news for all of us.
It is a huge victory and an inflation crushed by
Donald Trump's policies delivering it two point seven percent. No

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the numbers after they were released. So how did Donald
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Story number one.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Could it be that the media and the Democrats got
it wrong yet again on the economy. The same people
that try to convince you that there was no such
thing as Biden inflation, and instead they want you to
believe that the economy was incredible shape when Joe Biden
was in office, Well, once Donald Trump got elected, they
want you to believe everything is terrible. Well guess what,

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now there's more data show they're just a bunch of liars,
And this time it was bigger than even conservatives could
have imagined. There was a sharp and honestly an unexpected tumble,
not a decline, but a tumble. Inflation to two point
seven percent is more than just positive data point. It's

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a clear rebuke of the economic pessimism pushed by critics
of President Donald Trump. It's also a powerful validation of
Trump policies that his administration has been advancing. Saying, trust me,
it's going to work. The White House was absolutely right.
For months, economists and political opponents of Donald Trump have

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warned that Trump's aggressive economic agenda, including the tariffs that
have brought in record dollars to the US, the energy expansion, deregulation,
and pressure on global trade partners, would fuel, as they
described it, inflation. Instead, the opposite has happened. Inflation not

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only did it not spike, it fell in a major way,
and it fell faster than anyone, including those at the
White House, were even willing to min much less claim
it was going to become a reality. Energy dominance is
doing exactly by the way, what Donald Trump said it
was going to do. One of the biggest drivers behind

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the falling inflation is energy prices, and this is where
Trump's policies are having an outsized impact. Under Trump, federal
barriers to domestic oil and gas production have been rolled back,
leasing and drilling approvals have accelerated. The administration signaled clearly
that America would return to energy independence, and even a

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bigger way than it did when he was in office
the first time. That confidence alone stabilized the markets, and
then when supply expectations rise, prices fall not just at
the pump but across the entire economy, which is exactly
what we are now witnessing having a huge impact on inflation.

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Lower energy costs, reduced transportation expenses, manufacturing input costs, and
grocery distribution prices. All of that good for the economy.
As President Trump said on the campaign trail, energy and
the price touches everything. Trump understood that from day one,

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and inflation numbers are now proving him to be exactly right.
We also know that the media and the Democrats lied
to you about the tariffs. They said over and over
and over again, the tariffs were going to cause massive inflation.
They said that shelves would be empty at places like Target, Walmart, Costco,

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and Sam's Club. That also never happened. One of the
loudest criticisms of President Trump's economic strategy was by the
left of the media, and they said the tariffs would
not only raise consumer prices, but there would be massive
supply chain issues. They then said that would make inflation
skyrocket even more. That argument has also now flat out

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cold colapsed. What actually happened is this, the tariffs pressured
foreign producers to actually absorb the costs that did not
get passed on to Americans the way that the left
tried to claim supply chains adjusted instead of breaking. Again,
no empty shelves and no backlogs of basic necessities that

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Americans need. That was also a lie. It also had
another huge impact. American manufacturing expanded rapidly, reducing the reliance
on volatile foreign inputs, something the President said was a
part of us having security and safety literally on a
national security forefront. Instead of inflation spiraling upwards, which the

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left in the media said was a guaranteed thing, prices
stabilized and markets recalibrated. Trump's tariffs weren't random, they were
targeted leverage, forcing fairness and restoring balance. Inflation falling to
two point seven percent shows that smart trade and enforcement

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doesn't punish the consumers, it actually protects them. And then
the issue of deregulation, that is something that had a
huge impact on the numbers we're witnessing right now. Deregulation
reduce hidden inflation, and Americans have never been able to
see the receipts before until Trump got into office, Inflation

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isn't just about sticker prices. It's also about compliance costs,
regulatory delays, and bureaucratic drag from a government that just
got way too big. Trump administration said, Hey, we're going
to cut thousands of pages of federal regulations. We're going
to reduce permitting delays. We're going to lower compliance costs

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for small and medium sized businesses with something else they
said was vitally important. And when businesses spend less money
navigating Washington, that's when you get at what we're witnessing
right now. Products that are fast to the market, they
end up hiring more people and they keep prices lower.
This invisible inflation, as the White House described it, rarely

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makes headlines, but removing it has a real, end measured effect.
The two point seven percent inflation figure reflects those savings
working their way through the economy, and then it comes
down to confidence has returned to the marketplace and the
markets have actually responded. Inflation is also psychological. When consumers

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and businesses believe prices will rise, they behave in ways
that make it happen well. Trump's leadership clearly restored economic confidence.
Businesses began investing again, consumers stopped panic buying, markets adjusted
expectations downwards. That confidence reduces volatility, and volatility is a

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major inflation. Washington elites expected chaos, the markets and the
people saw clarity and they understood the rules of the
game because of a president that was transparent, which brings
us to fiscal discipline, and that was reassuring itself to
the American people. A renewed emphasis on fiscal restraint of

(10:20):
our government DOGE was a large part of that. Again,
made people feel more confident in their government. Trump is
consistently pushed for cutting wasteful spending, targeted bloated bureaucracies, and
challenged runaway federal programs. Even the signal of restraint matters.
When investors and lenders believe government spending will be controlled,

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inflation expectations drop, which is exactly what we're seeing.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
All of this has turned into one thing. Now it's
showing in the real numbers. So what is the massive
takeaway from this? This is a gigantic win for every
American a specially lower and middle class American families. The
drop in inflation to two point seven percent didn't happen
by accident, and it didn't happen despite Donald Trump's policies.

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It happened because of Donald Trump's policies. Energy dominance, lowered costs,
economy wide tariffs, restored balance without triggering price spikes, deregulation,
reduced hidden inflation, confidence, return to the markets, fiscal discipline,
signal stability. The so called experts yet again predicted disaster.

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The data delivered a reality check to them. So this
inflation report isn't just good news. It's proof that Trump's
economic playbook works even under intense political and global pressure.
Thank goodness, we have a present that's willing to stay
the course and not chase an approval rating number. And

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now what we're witnessing is the real effects of what
Trump's economy is at the end the end of his
first year. And now you know what to expect moving
into twenty twenty six.

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