The potential future president had also told the crowd, “You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it’s a little bit true,” before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.

“Food has gone up at levels that nobody’s ever seen before,” he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. “We’ve never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent.”

The online response to Trump’s odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, “Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well.”

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    For me, the weirdest claim was at the RNC convention when they brought a bunch of grieving veterans families on stage and claimed the media was ignoring soldier’s deaths under Biden…

    As if Trump wasn’t directly responsible for an incredible spike in service member deaths, a clear reversal from the Obama Era annual declines. SOURCE

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      Don’t forget Trump thinks dead soldiers are losers and doesn’t understand why people volunteer for the military. He also gave Putin and his allies a list of spies that resulted in many of their exposures and deaths.

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      Isn’t this the party that purposefully left in place a very weird plan to exit Afghanistan, and then blamed that on Biden, too?