🇺🇸 CNN’s Inflation Coverage: Trump vs Biden

What happens when the media reports on the exact same issue—inflation—under two different presidents? Our deep-dive analysis reveals CNN's stunning double standard, shifting from reporting economic pain under Biden to assigning political blame under Trump.

Time to expose the liberal lapdog media's playbook while covering the real executive actions on crime, space, and the economy that they'd rather ignore...

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Executive Orders

President Trump is directing federal agencies to fill the Strategic Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Reserve (SAPIR) to strengthen the American pharmaceutical supply chain.

Why this matters: the executive order aims to secure the domestic supply of critical medicines by stockpiling Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) to prevent shortages and reduce dependence on foreign manufacturers.

President Trump aims to strengthen the American space industry by directing federal agencies to streamline regulations for commercial launches, reentries, and spaceport development, with the goal of increasing American space competitiveness by 2030.

Why this matters: the executive order is intended to boost economic growth, enhance national security, and solidify American leadership in space exploration by making it easier for U.S. companies to operate and compete globally.

President Trump has revoked Executive Order 14036, which was titled "Promoting Competition in the American Economy."

DOJ Statement: “America First Antitrust focuses on empowering the American people in the free markets, not enabling regulators and bureaucrats to prescribe outcomes,” said Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. “We are unleashing the new American Golden Age through antitrust enforcement that removes barriers to innovation and opportunity and limits regulatory burdens on free competition.”

A press release from the White House highlights the success of President Trump's "Made in America" agenda by citing recent investment and job creation announcements from companies like Apple, Ford, and GE Appliances.

Why this matters: the administration claims that these new investments and jobs are a direct result of "pro-American policies" and are bringing prosperity back to the country.

Asserting that Washington, D.C., has one of the highest crime rates in the world due to corrupt city officials and a Democrat government that has stopped prosecuting most crime, a post by President Trump declares the city is now back under federal control, where the military and police will "liberate" it.

Claims that his meeting with Putin is being unfairly covered by the "Fake News" media, President Trump dismisses criticism from figures like John Bolton and claims that "we are winning on EVERYTHING" despite media corruption.

It’s been said that inflation is a kitchen-table issue. It affects everyone, regardless of politics. How the liberal lapdog media reports on this universal economic pain, however, appears to be anything but universal. An analysis of two CNN news videos—one during the Biden administration and one done yesterday for Trump’s current term—reveals a stark difference in tone and focus. This difference becomes profoundly more jarring when set against the backdrop of actual economic history.

The Biden era's coverage is sober, factual, and presented as an unfortunate but widespread economic event. Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans begins by “confirming what anybody who has bought anything already knows.”

The language is descriptive: prices are “going up,” the monthly increase is a “steep one-month move,” and the 5.4% year-over-year figure represents “really hot inflation numbers.” The focus is on what: groceries, gas, housing, and healthcare all cost more.

Noticeably absent from this report is any direct finger-pointing at Joe Biden. The report frames inflation as a phenomenon happening to Americans, an almost force-of-nature event that the public is enduring. The President’s name is not mentioned. The problem is the economy; the subject is the consumer.

Now, let’s pivot to yesterday’s coverage on President Trump. The segment, featuring data analyst Harry Enten, is a masterclass in shifting the narrative from economic reporting to a political word salad hit job.

The segment opens by immediately tying inflation to the president: "...prices did rise on a wide array of products, showing that President Trump's tariffs are being passed along to consumers." Before a single number is discussed, a cause—and a culprit—has been established.

What follows is not an economic analysis, but a political one, delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Enten declares the situation an “abject disaster for the president.”

The language is drenched in hyperbole: "My goodness gracious. Into the gutter. We go underwater. We go. He's 25 points underwater... That is where the Little Mermaid is."

Unlike the Biden-era report, which focused on the Consumer Price Index, this segment is obsessed with polling data. The core of the report isn’t about how much your bacon costs; it’s about Trump’s approval rating on the issue. Enten proclaims it a “complete and total disaster for the President of United States” and predicts doom for the entire Republican party in the 2026 midterms.

But CNN probably doesn’t want you to know that the July 2025 inflation report is considered significantly better than the July 2021 report for the following reasons..

The contrast couldn't be more clear. When the president is a Democrat, CNN reports on the pain of inflation. When the president is a Republican, CNN reports on the blame for inflation. The first approach informs the viewer about an economic reality; the second tells the viewer who to hold responsible and warns of dire political consequences for an entire party.

Is the goal to report the news, or to shape a narrative?

Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar commissioned the new USCG Earl Cunningham Fast Response Cutter in Kodiak, Alaska, to strengthen the U.S. presence in the Arctic, an effort supported by a $25 billion investment from President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill".

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Tennessee as part of her "Returning Education to the States Tour" to highlight the state's literacy initiatives and praise its "bold investments in early literacy."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relaunched its Guidance Portal, a website that provides centralized access to the agency's guidance documents related to environmental programs for the benefit of the public, especially small businesses and farmers.

The U.S. Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Education have released a report titled "America’s Talent Strategy: Equipping American Workers for the Golden Age," which presents a new blueprint for the federal government's approach to workforce development under the Trump Administration. The strategy is designed to prepare the workforce to power a "Golden Age" of economic growth and to position the U.S. as a dominant global economic leader.