Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has claimed that during a round of golf with Donald Trump, the president-elect told him that inflation wasn’t really the issue that got him elected.

“He told me, he said, ‘Listen, I know inflation is a big deal,’ but … the number one reason why he got elected, he said, was because of the immigration and the border issue,” DeSantis said on The Dana Show hosted by Dana Loesch.

Trump campaigned on bringing inflation down, and anger at the rise of inflation was a major reason why many Americans voted for the president-elect in the 2024 election, according to polling.

Several of Trump’s economic policies could possibly worsen inflation, experts have warned. A top concern is his promises and threats to impose broad tariffs on imports from other countries, with economists warning that those costs are likely to be paid by American consumers.