Sarah McCammon / Tamara Keith / Domenico Montanaro (primary hosts; multi-voice label primarily Sarah McCammon)

And that sort of sensitive messaging is just not the way President Trump normally talks.

And so the very same day that this White House official told me this, President Trump again started boasting about the economy.

That was actually him delivering the new message and immediately turned to say, costs are way down, everything's cheaper.

I don't know what people are talking about.

He calls it a hoax, the affordability hoax.

In fact, in a social media post today, he said...

Costs and inflation were far higher under sleepy Joe Biden's administration than they are now.

In fact, costs under the Trump administration are tumbling down, helped greatly by gasoline and energy.

Affordability is a lie when used by the Dems.

It is a complete con job.

Yeah, I mean, the president and his cabinet can say whatever they want about this.

But is there a tipping point here?

If Trump's base sees the cost of everything going up or so many things and he says it's not happening, is there a point where they start to lose faith?

Well, I mean, I don't know if it hurts him politically, quote unquote, with his base, but I think that people know what they pay at the grocery store.

And, you know, no matter what President Trump wants to say, quote, costs are way down.

You know, it's one thing to sort of message around, you know, some highfalutin idea that's really hard to prove when it comes to science and research.

And one study says something that another study might not.

And people don't have to dive into all of that research to try to understand that.

Look, people get to go to the grocery store.

They get to see what it is that they pay.