"Well, I'll tell you what. If I were his advisers, his political advisers, the people who actually go out and poll and do these things, I would be cringing watching this whole day unfold, because this was an exercise in denial. You know what his plus, plus, plus, plus, plus [is]? That's people looking at their bills. That's how they feel. You cannot jawbone people into feeling what their life experience is telling them isn't true."
"And you know, I was in the Obama white house during the Great Recession. We got there at the peak of it, and we thought we were making progress. And, you know, but every time you try to claim progress, you just people resented it because they were living the reality of the crisis. And they hadn't felt, they didn't feel as if we were coming out of it. And that's he is completely digging a hole."
President Donald Trump repeatedly rated the economy an "A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus," claiming he inherited a total mess and asserting that prices are coming down substantially. CNN aired clips showing a three-time Trump voter saying the president is not doing enough to bring down costs and showing Trump calling the idea of affordability a hoax. Political commentator David Axelrod called the president's messaging an exercise in denial and said the rhetoric clashes with voters' lived experiences of bills and prices. Axelrod warned that claiming progress when people feel hardship breeds resentment and that such messaging could hurt congressional Republicans in the midterms.
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