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- Donald Trump and Elon Musk called out the pain caused by high levels of inflation in recent years.
- Trump bemoaned that people can't afford groceries and savers have been "decimated" by rising prices.
- Musk blamed inflation on government overspending and pushed for deregulation to bring down costs.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk lamented the brutal impact of rising prices in their X Spaces conversation on Monday.
"It's a disaster with inflation," the former US president said. "It doesn't matter what you make. The inflation has eaten you alive."