Trump 'increasingly frustrated' he’s not getting positive feedback on the economy

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 19, 2025. REUTERS Ken Cedeno.JPG

The economy is great, claims President Donald Trump. Americans just need to hear him say it.

That, according to CNN, is the plan White House officials are brewing as they prepare to bounce the president all over the nation to deliver focused speeches on the economy.

“White House officials have been privately discussing a number of different strategies to try to get at this issue. And one of those is having the president travel the country to give economy focused speeches to try to bring his messaging directly to the American people,” said CNN reporter Alayna Treene. “I’m also told that the president’s advisors have told him not to brush away these concerns or dismiss them outright. Instead try to recognize that this is what people are feeling.”

One advisor told Treene that he told the president that he “can’t convince people” that what they’re feeling at home “isn’t reality.”

Treene said advisors are “looking at messaging geared toward the holidays and trying to find ways to talk about lowering prices and the different policies that they have.”

But Trump’s advisors say the president is becoming “increasingly frustrated” since the elections last week, where Democrats walk away with major victories in a number of different states, and with the shutdown politics and the recognition that Republicans “are the ones who are largely being blamed” for the shutdown and the pain it caused.

“One thing, though, that the president kind of differs in some of his thinking, is that he sees this more as a perception issue,” Treene added. “One of the officials that I spoke with, a senior white house official essentially said that he's frustrated that he's not getting credit for what he is doing now.”

“What's been interesting is … a lot of times he actually looks like he's going down the road of his press predecessor, the former president Joe Biden, who was kind, criticized for downplaying the issue of inflation, trying to tell Americans that the economy is better than what they are feeling,” Treene said, adding that some of that is the fault of “messaging coming from the president's advisers who are essentially telling him ‘your policies are great, but they need time to sink in.’”

“You could’ve said that exact same reporting at the end of the Biden administration,” CNN anchor Kate Bolduan told Treene. “… Get him out there to talk about the economy (they told Biden)."

“It’s a cut and paste from 2023,” said anchor John Berman.

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