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Trump Says America Is in ‘Golden Age,’ Straining to Address Affordability

Speaking at a gathering of McDonald’s franchise owners and operators, the president boasted that he had “normalized” inflation.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

In his remarks at the McDonald’s Impact Summit on Monday in Washington, President Trump made only fleeting reference to the issue of beef prices, after boasting about getting his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to eat a Big Mac.
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