AnotherReader, please take off your simplistic partisan blinkers and look at reality.  Are you REALLY trying to claim that the statistics on inflation, unemployment, etc. from the BLS over the past decade or two are honestly reflective of reality?  Really?

The massaging of economic data and statistics began, in a serious way, back in the 1990s, when the BLS started introducing such bull poop such as "hedonic adjustments" into the CPI, and started NOT counting those who fell off the official unemployment lists as actually unemployed.  The corruption of official economic data and statistics only snowballed from that point, the current or former occupants of the White House being utterly irrelevant to the situation.