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President Donald Trump will speak out about the U.S. economy in a bid to send a message of economic success to a country increasingly concerned about the cost of living.
The speech in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, came as data shows Americans are feeling squeezed by creeping increases in prices, even though President Trump claims he has largely defeated inflation.
The latest consumer confidence survey for November found that business confidence had fallen to its lowest level in seven months.
In addition, although the inflation rate has fallen from the high levels seen during the middle of the Biden administration, it is still on an upward trajectory. The most recent year-on-year change in the consumer price index in September was 3%, the same level as January.
Democrats, hoping to regain at least a one-house majority in the 2026 midterm elections, are keen to focus on their message of affordability while blaming President Trump’s tariffs and other economic policies for the high prices.
President Trump took offense to that message, claiming that affordability was a “Democrat quack” that was cleaning up his predecessor’s economic mess.
In an interview with Politico on Monday, President Trump said he would rate his country’s economy an “A plus plus plus plus plus.”
The domestic trips to key battleground states mark a return to the voter outreach that has defined Trump’s political career, but such moves have become increasingly rare in the 79-year-old’s first year back in the White House.
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