'I love the inflation': Trump's remark gets backlash amid rising costs
President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, "love" it. Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2 per cent over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn't dismiss the affordability issue as a "hoax" that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living. …

