White House weighs stepped up domestic travel and speeches to improve Trump's standing on the economy
Source: CNN Politics
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2025, 4:00 AM ET
President Donald Trump’s advisers have had conversations about him traveling the country to give economy-focused speeches as they privately weigh a number of strategies to improve his standing on the issue, administration officials told CNN.
Trump’s advisers acknowledge that they have an affordability problem that the president has bristled at in public: Americans’ outlook on the economy is dour, and the administration’s efforts to ease their financial anxieties aren’t resonating. “You can’t convince people that their experience, what they’re feeling at home, isn’t reality,” one of the officials said.
White House officials have advised the president not to brush away or outright dismiss that Americans are feeling squeezed by rising prices, they said. They have been actively putting “policy time” — as one of the officials characterized it — on Trump’s schedule with the goal of accelerating the administration’s efforts to tackle inflation.
While Trump has talked extensively about affordability in recent days, he has often downplayed the strain Americans are feeling, suggesting in a Fox News interview on Monday that polls capturing Americans’ economic anxiety are “fake.” One of the strategies being discussed in the West Wing is for Trump to turn much of his attention to his domestic agenda. That includes ramping up his domestic travel, the officials said, and pulling back on his international trips. As the holidays draw near, there’s also a push to coordinate new messaging on what the administration is doing to help lower costs.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/trump-economy-white-house-strategy
His "domestic agenda" is terrorizing cities with ICE and National Guard jack-booted thugs, purging every institution - whether government, media, big retail corporations, law firms, educational institutions, from pre-K through college, of anything to do with the diverse cultures that are part of the fabric of this country'; eliminating anything that would help to mitigate climate catastrophes (as well as terminating any assistance or hope for assistance, to those who ARE impacted by such catastrophes); ensuring that the health systems and practices that have been carefully put in place over many decades, are obliterated; weaponizing the top federal law enforcement entity to "take revenge" on investigators who were carrying out their lawful duties; and lining his, his family's, and his businesses' pockets, with as much money as he can extort, from both domestic, AND foreign sources.
The "domestic agenda" is essentially tearing apart the fabric, and tearing down the infrastructure of this country, both figuratively and literally, and infesting it with greedy oligarchs, and the bottom-feeding dregs of society, who will gladly assist in inflicting as much pain, both physical and psychological, on the world.
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I can see how the resonance is not there...
I guess mr popularity learned this from his handlers elsewhere.
I expect soon there will be an official news agency established. Maybe it'll even rhyme with TASS...something like CRASS. 
Oh wait. There is:
