President Donald Trump’s chief economist shamelessly spun inflation as a partisan problem in an interview with Fox Business on Tuesday.

The director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett, practically lied through his teeth when asked how bad the economy’s price creep problem was right now, telling host Larry Kudlow that rates were in “a deep, downward dive” that has “Wall Street buzzing.”

It didn’t seem to matter that just days ago, Trump’s own Commerce Department released data showing inflation had hit a three-year high of 3.8% in April, a 0.3% bump from March’s already unnerving numbers.

But Hassett wasn’t done twisting the truth, practically smirking as he claimed a recent memo from the president’s Council of Economic Advisers revealed rising prices were actually “really out of control in the blue states.”

“If you take out New York and California, then the story is radically different,” Trump’s top economist went on, telling Kudlow the “high-cost, high-regulatory states” were responsible for skewing statistics.

KUDLOW: How bad is the inflation right?HASSETT: Right now it's on a deep, downward dive. And the inflation is really out of control in the blue states. So if you take out New York and California, then the story is radically different. And so there's really good news even on… pic.twitter.com/cmXcLBW1WY

A regular on the TV news circuit and former veteran of the conservative think-tank sphere, Hassett has an almost impressive knack for gaslighting.

During an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, he celebrated increased consumer spending on gas, groceries, restaurants and more as “a sign” that “people are optimistic about the future” of the economy.

It barely took anything to debunk Hassett’s boast, which David L. Ortega, a food economist and professor at Michigan State University, told HuffPost was “very detached from reality.”

“When we’re talking about things like food, groceries and gas, these are necessities. People have to eat. They need gas to get to work and move around,” Ortega explained. “When we see more spending in those categories, it’s largely driven by higher prices ― not because people are optimistic about where we’re headed or where we currently are.”

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