Trump blames 'bad public relations people' on not selling economic wins

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

01/20/26 4:29 PM ET


President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged his administration was having trouble selling his economic wins, at one point saying it could be the result of “bad public relations people.”

“The numbers that we inherited were way up, and now we brought them, almost all of them, way down, way down,” Trump told reporters from the White House briefing room where he made an appearance to mark exactly one year in office.

“I mean… maybe you have bad public relations people, but we’re not getting it across. We inherited high numbers, and we brought them way down,” he continued, appearing to lay the blame on his staff for not selling his agenda effectively to the public.

Trump has struggled with poll numbers when it comes to how Americans are feeling on the economy with stubborn inflation holding steady at 2.7.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5697568-trump-struggles-sell-economic-wins/

[underpants]

1. Leavitt was standing right there.

[Red Mountain]

15. He's going to dump her

she's pregnant. I'd be surprised if he DIDN'T have issues with that given his wife replacement/cheating pattern.

He won't want her around after she starts to show.

[NotHardly]

20. Check out Wall Street today...LOL

[niyad]

2. Dear Goddess, he actually said something truthful! The economy WAS

up, he brought it wayyyyy down.

[BaronChocula]

3. Numbers brought down by trump. I'll start

Manufacturing jobs
Imports from abroad
Taxes paid by the ultra-rich
The stock market (as of today)

[C_U_L8R]

4. The numbers. They aren't there.

But now we know how you went bankrupted so often. What a fuckwit.

[Blue Owl]

5. Always someone else's fault, isn't it Donny...

[rampartd]

6. who hired those public relations people?

"a poor workman blames his tools"

[Mister Ed]

26. Couldn't have been Trump. He says he hires "only the best people".

[Dave Bowman]

7. The best PR campaign in the world couldn't make him look less of an ass.

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. I am sorry, Dave...

But I'm afraid you are spot on with that one!

[Dave Bowman]

12. Lol! 👍

[Lovie777]

8. What economic wins?.............

Only the rich are winning with no such thing as trickle down.

[Marthe48]

9. There are no wins

pocketing breath-takingly large bribes and pocketing public money that isn't being scrutinized doesn't help anybody but that venal slob.

[GiqueCee]

10. WHAT economic wins???

This treasonous nutjob lives in a fantasy world. He's gutted the American economy! And as the rest of the world says "ENOUGH!" and packs it in by cutting economic ties with us, it'll be even worse. And all the pearl-clutchers on Capitol Hill are as useless as teats on a bull. But it's the Republicans especially who are going down on the express elevator to Hell, and the sooner the better.

[mdbl]

13. Seriously! The man's a moron. Even his father Satan is thinking of disowning hime.

[fujiyamasan]

14. Don't you know, he's such a modest guy

With a similarly honest and decent team that never toots their own horn ever. He also takes responsibility for his actions!

[kimbutgar]

16. I was watching the View and they preempted the show during Mondami's appearance for his remarks

I couldn’t even last a minute it was so insane and grandpa needs to go into a senior memory care home.

My older sister has Alzheimer’s and he sounded just like her with wild accusations and made up stuff !

[BGRD]

17. Tranlating Trumplish into English

When Trump uses the phrase "bad public relations people" he means his political commissars in the media like almost everyone on Fox News and Bari Weiss at CBS.

[Aussie105]

18. In their defense I'd say . . .

These 'bad public relations people' are using real world numbers, not Trump's confused, deranged and made-up numbers.

Trump is confused. More than usual.

He thinks reality should reflect what he says and thinks, not the other way around.

[Metro135]

19. Will someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Put this GODDAMN MANIAC into a straIt jacket already and cart him away? Jesus Christ!

Maybe how I feel today is because I ran out of my depression meds yesterday but PLEASE

END THIS NIGHTMARE!

[Polybius]

21. I remember all this talk about this very thing during the 2024 campaign

Many here said we should have been pushing the "economic wins" message more.

[ancianita]

22. There is absolutely no amount of good PR people who can pr this economy on the ground, which is the REAL economy.

Wall Street is the gambling tier of the REAL economy, and Wall St's flagging because its foundation is eroding.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Yeah, the GOP always suffers from poor messaging, never from the fact that their policies SUCK. nt

[llmart]

24. And from a narcissist...

nothing is ever their fault, even choosing the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

[Roy Rolling]

25. The Sales Force

Not the Army, Navy, or Air Force…the Sales Force.

The problem is the salespeople aren’t working hard enough.

[Irish_Dem]

27. PR people aren't magicians.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Because you can sell anything if you lie enough, right?

[Deminpenn]

29. This depite his cabinet secretaries and press office and media toadies

out there shilling and luing for him every day.