President Donald Trump’s administration insists the economy is booming in his second term — even as Americans say their wallets are being bled dry. On Tuesday, MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace cracked that glossy White House narrative wide open, contrasting official cheerleading with blunt, everyday frustration from shoppers staring down soaring prices.

In Yonkers, New York, residents Lindsay Gottfried and Harryson Berrios didn’t mince words. Gottfried said “everything has gone up,” singling out milk as a constant roller coaster. Berrios said his family’s grocery bill has ballooned to nearly $1,000 a month, and he’s just trying to “recover from everything that goes on.” For both, inflation isn’t an abstract chart — it’s the checkout total.

Wallace then cut to NBC’s Kristen Welker pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about inflation on Meet the Press. Welker noted prices had climbed since Trump’s sweeping tariffs took effect. Bessent flatly denied it: “Inflation hasn’t gone up.”

That response set Wallace off.

“That sound bite is next to gaslighting in the dictionary right now,” she said, blasting the administration for insisting voters must be mistaken about their own budgets. “People who buy groceries, clothes, car seats, walkers — they know everything is more expensive.”

And the public seems to agree. A new Fox News poll shows Trump’s disapproval rating on the economy hitting 58 percent, his highest yet. Majorities reported rising costs for groceries, utilities, healthcare, and housing — the backbone of day-to-day survival.

Even as the White House insists its policies built a “strong economy,” shoppers across the country say the numbers on the screen at checkout tell a different story.