CNN anchor Jake Tapper dropped a pile of video receipts featuring President Donald Trump claiming prices are “way down” — then broke the bad news that repeating it doesn’t make it so.

On Friday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Tapper followed his supercut of Trump’s claims with a fact-check on grocery prices and a reminder of Trump’s repeated campaign promises to bring prices down:

TAPPER: Let’s turn now to a repeated claim from President Trump.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: As you know, groceries are down. It’s all down.

Our groceries are down.

Because our groceries are down.

Grocery prices are way down.

And prices are way down. Groceries are down. Everything is down.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

TAPPER: So frequently repeated. Those clips are just from the past two weeks alone.

But what are the facts? Newly released inflation data shows that grocery prices are actually up again last month and have been on the rise since President Trump took office in January. The average price of groceries rose 0.3 percent from August to September. On average, grocery prices are about 1.4 percent higher than in January when President Trump took office, and they’re 2.7 percent higher than they were at this point last year.

And we can break it down even further because every category of groceries has seen price increases over the last year, most shockingly coffee, which is up 18.9 percent, as well as beef and veal up 14.7 percent.

Now, economists say it’s normal for grocery prices to rise over time, but we need to point out that two of President Trump’s signature policies, his tariffs on imported goods, such as coffee, and his crackdown on illegal immigration, which impacts many workers, especially in the agricultural industry, are certainly contributing to the spike, according to economists.

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.

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