President Donald Trump launched into an angry tirade after being confronted about cost-of-living pressures, calling affordability a Democratic “con job” and insisting prices are “way down.”

Days after Democrats won a clean sweep of elections, largely over concerns about the economy, the president was confronted about the issue during a meeting at the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The event began with the 79-year-old president looking and sounding relatively subdued, but the tempo immediately picked up when he was asked about the price of a Thanksgiving dinner from Walmart.

Trump had earlier insisted that Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal would be cheaper this year, which he pointed to as “irrefutable” evidence that Republicans are the party of “affordability.”

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