President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to deliver remarks on the US economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, December 9, 2025. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Donald Trump certainly made himself feel better. Whether he did the same for gloomy voters haunted by high prices is more doubtful.

Trump relished returning to a campaign-style event Tuesday night , working the crowd like a standup comic, trashing his script and emphasizing wild rhetoric with classic hand gestures, as if playing an imaginary accordion.

Vulnerable Republicans have pleaded with Trump to show he knows how tough it is to make rent, pay for groceries and afford health care. He paid lip service to their hopes in a swing district of northeast Pennsylvania, decla

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