Megan Messerly

This is not that, right?

This is a moment where the president wants to be taking a victory lap, and yet he's, you know, stuck in this quagmire that is Iran, one that he desperately wants to get out of.

Yeah, I mean, this has been one that has been, you know, near and dear to the president for months now.

His fight to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center and this, you know, planned massive renovation of the center, all put on hold by a federal court last week.

We saw the president take to True Social to express his sincere displeasure at that decision.

But just another loss in this sort of string of challenging circumstances for the White House right now.

So some White House allies I spoke to said, you know, this is the challenge is that it's not like they don't have any wins.

And the White House as well.

This was their pushback to me in the story was we do have things we're doing.

For instance, their efforts to reduce the cost of prescription drugs through Trump R.X.,

The coming launch of Trump accounts for millions of children.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, you know, was on the road last week in California and elsewhere touting these investment accounts, right, that are supposed to sort of build generational wealth for the next generation.

But that is all getting overshadowed right now by Iran.

And so the White House blames the media for not doing more to sort of highlight these things.

But ultimately, I think the challenge, and this is what I hear when I'm sort of talking to regular voters, is, okay, these Trump accounts are great, but like,

I'm being crunched right now by the cost of gas, by the cost of my groceries when I'm buying ground beef, and it's $9, $10 a pound.

So these wins are great, and it's not that the American people—polling is very high around both of these issues, drug prices and these Trump accounts.

But when the pressing concern is putting food on the table and making ends meet and paying the bills—

That has been sort of cold comfort and that sort of exposes some of the challenge of the White House's efforts to message here.

You know, the president is a longtime fan of the UFC, and we are certainly seeing him celebrate his 80th birthday, which is the day of the UFC fight.