News Summary

• President Donald Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that coffee prices are high.
• Consumer Price Index figures for September show coffee was about 15% more expensive on average than it was in January.
• But Trump doesn’t usually acknowledge such truths.
• He has wrongly insisted for years that tariff costs are covered entirely by foreign countries, or split between foreign countries and US corporations, and do not raise the prices paid by American consumers.
• The US government’s tariffs on imported products are paid to the government by importers in the US, adding to the importers’ expenses.