Trump in 'mess of his own making' by choosing 'gilded White House' over costs: ex-RNC spox

U.S. President Donald Trump attends a Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., October 31, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

President Donald Trump is only making his unpopularity problem "worse" by ignoring his 2024 campaign promises, according to a former Republican Party spokesperson.

During a Tuesday segment on MSNBC, Tim Miller — who was deputy communications director at the Republican National Committee (RNC) during former President Barack Obama's administration — told "Deadline: White House" host Nicolle Wallace that Trump wasn't doing himself any favors with the narrow majority of voters that elected him by almost completely ignoring their concerns about the high prices of basic needs like groceries and healthcare.

Miller observed that the current economy belonged entirely to the Trump administration, despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent argument that the Trump administration inherited an affordability crisis. Miller countered that the indifference of the administration toward working-class Americans was "more stark now than it's ever been in awhile."

"Obviously whoever's thepresident was going to own theeconomy at some level," Miller said. "Like, youcould imagine an alternate Trump universe where he justeven rhetorically focuses on working-class stuff, workingclass affect. And weall rolled our eyes at if yougo back to the campaign andhe's in the McDonald's [drive-thru]and he's a big boy in thetruck, right? Like you do that!"

"If he just did that kind ofstuff where he wastalking about the supposedforgotten man that he wassupposed to care about, and hedidn't do the tariffs that areunconstitutional and areactually hurting people," Miller continued. "And helistened to Steve Bannon anddid a tax hike — evena small one — on the wealthiestas part of the [Big Beautiful Bill], you couldimagine a totally differentpolitical situation."

According to Miller, Trump had "done all this to himself," claiming that the president "stopped caring about regular folks' concerns" and is instead inwardly focused on "his gilded White House and bombing boats in Venezuela and the trophies that he's getting in Korea." He added that Trump's lone domestic policy achievement was a bill that "cut taxes for the rich" and that his key policy of imposing tariffs on virtually every major trade partner "just raises costs on everybody."

"Thisis just a mess of hisown making," Miller said. "And frankly, I justthink it gets worse as you gointo next year because he'salready done the thingsthat he was said he was going to do to allegedly help the economy, and it's all backfiring."

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