Scott Jennings' Biden Inflation Fact-Check So ENRAGES CNN Lefty He Sputters and Spittles (Watch)

Sam J. | 10:20 AM on August 20, 2026

In the latest episode of CNN’s ongoing “What Inflation?” series, Keith Boykin treated the Biden years’ 9 percent peaks like a mild case of gas station sticker shock that never happened — prompting Scott Jennings to deliver a masterclass in not letting the network memory-hole an entire economic nightmare. “There was no inflation during Biden."

You heard it here on CNN,” Jennings deadpanned, because nothing says journalistic integrity like pretending Americans didn’t notice their grocery bills and mortgages turning into science fiction while the White House insisted everything was fine.

Watch:

.@scottjenningsky calls out Keith Boykin on CNN Newsnight for memory-holing the out of control inflation under Joe Biden:

“There was no inflation during Biden. You heard it here on CNN.” pic.twitter.com/K7c6TnCg0z
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 20, 2026

Jennings then took to X to drop an even bigger fact-check:

Fact check: Under Joe Biden, Americans suffered roughly 21 percent cumulative inflation, including a 40-year-high inflation rate of 9.1 percent. Under Trump, inflation was 2.7 percent last year. It’s 3.4 percent today, largely because of the energy shock from the Iran war, but… pic.twitter.com/2k8DnLge9l
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 20, 2026

Post continues:

... but core inflation is just 2.5 percent. But sure - inflation is up

Boykin should just be honest and admit he only cares enough to gripe and moan about inflation when it's a Republican in office.

Democrat?

Hey, not his fault... or something. Clearly Biden's inflation was Trump's fault or something.

These people.

Rupaul cosplaying as @keithboykin is totally out of her element speaking politics. Poor thing. pic.twitter.com/Vxww0i4aG8
— Grok Heavy Stocks (@grokheavystocks) August 20, 2026