Tamara Keith

Trump has spent very little time during his second term traveling around the country to sell voters on his policies.

Now with his approval ratings at a low point and administration officials asking voters for patience, Trump heads to a resort in his swing district in Pennsylvania to talk about the economy.

He's called affordability a Democratic con job and a hoax, but yesterday at the White House dialed it back a little.

The most recent numbers show the inflation rate in September was the same as it was during former President Biden's last month in office.

Trump has spent very little time during his second term traveling around the country to sell voters on his policies.

Now with his approval ratings at a low point and administration officials asking voters for patience, Trump heads to a resort in his swing district in Pennsylvania to talk about the economy.

He's called affordability a Democratic con job and a hoax, but yesterday at the White House dialed it back a little.

The most recent numbers show the inflation rate in September was the same as it was during former President Biden's last month in office.

Tamara Keith, NPR News.

Yeah.

In his second term, President Trump has done very little domestic travel aimed at pitching his policies to the American people.

In fact, he's done way more travel to sporting events than going out in the country and making his case.

A senior White House official I spoke with who was not authorized to speak publicly readily acknowledged that this sort of messaging travel has been lacking.

and said the president would be ramping it up late this year and into next year, starting with today's trip to Pennsylvania, which is to a competitive congressional district.

Well, the senior White House official I spoke to said that the president will be balancing talking about what they see as real economic good news with an acknowledgment that there's more work to do.

And just ask President Biden about the perils of telling people that, well, actually, the economy is fine when their cost of living is way up.

Getting the tone right on the economy is something presidents have often struggled with.

Trump himself has been a bit off message.

Take this from a cabinet meeting last week.

And inflation did get alarmingly high under Biden, but then it slowed down.