US President Donald Trump speaks during an event about weight-loss drugs in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 6, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

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 offic

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