President Trump’s team tell CNN they’re in the early stages of planning a lengthy series of MAGA rallies to address the affordability crisis that has been steadily growing source of concern for White House officials. “You can’t convince people that their experience, what they’re feeling at home, isn’t reality,” one source said about the domestic itinerary being launched to try to convince people that high prices are what the president repeatedly called a “con job” by the Democrats.
“The president gets it. He knows this is an issue,” a senior White House official said the same week that Trump called polls with his economic approval rating in the low 30 percent range “fake” during an interview. “But he’s frustrated he’s not getting credit for what he’s doing,” the official continued, naming energy deregulations and the extension of his 2017 tax cuts as major accomplishments that voters just need to learn more about so they can feel better about the economy and job market.
Once they see him talking about how he brought $25 trillion in deals in just nine months they will know they made the right choice last year. Trump previewed this argument during a speech to wealthy investors at a conference held in an air conditioned auditorium, saying “I tell Republicans, you want to win elections, you got to talk about these facts,” on his record of economic accomplishments. “You know, it’s really easy to win elections when you talk about the facts.”