Trump pushes affordability message at Pennsylvania rally amid mounting economic gloom: Live

President Donald Trump said “America is winning again” in a speech about the economy in Pennsylvania Tuesday night.

“After just 10 months in office, I’m pleased to report that America is winning again. Pennsylvania is prospering again, and I will not rest until this Commonwealth is wealthier and stronger than ever before,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump has begun his remarks at a rally on the economy in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.

Trump started his speech about an hour later than expected on Tuesday night.

The Associated Press reported that the president left Washington, D.C., late after attending a Christmas party at Vice President JD Vance’s residence.

Trump’s supporters began chanting, “USA,” as he started his remarks.

Katie Miller, a conservative podcaster, former DOGE member and the wife of senior Trump administration official Stephen Miller, is reportedly facing pushback from the Arlington Police Department after calling authorities because she felt threatened by local protesters.

In September, Miller, 34, reportedly called police after a group of protesters wrote messages in chalk outside of the couple’s home voicing opposition to her husband – the White House deputy chief of staff for policy who is largely credited with being the architect of Trump’s highly controversial immigration policies.

One of the chalk messages read, “Stephen Miller is destroying democracy.” Another said, “DEI enriches all.”

On Fox News, Miller described them as “terroristic threats” and “doxxing.”

But law enforcement appears to have a different opinion, according to a police report obtained by Zeteo, claiming “The messages were non-threatening and alluded to political issues such as immigration, transgender rights, DEI, and white supremacy.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright addressed the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally on affordability in Pennsylvania ahead of the president’s appearance.

The Cabinet members blamed former President Joe Biden for policies they said negatively impacted the economy before Trump took office for the second time.

“President Trump has put a decisive end to the three Is — I would add a fourth one, insanity, under Joe Biden,” Bessent said. The other three Is are immigration, interest rates and inflation.

President Donald Trump has landed in Pennsylvania for a rally where he is expected to tout his economic agenda.

President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday evening that he likes “the concept” of a bill by two Republican senators to lower healthcare costs.

Senators Mike Crapo of Idaho and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana are pushing for healthcare legislation that sends money directly to patients rather than insurance companies. The healthcare plan will lower insurance premiums, the senators promised, and is an alternative to an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats are pushing.

“I like the concept. I don’t want to give the insurance companies any money; they’ve been ripping off the public for years. Obamacare is a scam to make the insurance companies rich,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump has attacked Representative Jasmine Crockett’s intelligence when asked about her Senate bid in Texas.

“She’s a low IQ person,” Trump told reporters Tuesday evening. “I can’t imagine she wins. Maybe she’ll get the Democrat nomination, but I think it’s a gift to Republicans. She’s a terrible representative.”

Read more about Crockett jumping into the Senate race from John Bowden:

Prices are high, Americans are feeling the pain around the kitchen table and in their empty pockets — and President Donald Trump is hitting the road to convince skeptical voters that the U.S. economy is “A+++++”, as he told Politico.

If this all sounds familiar, well, that’s because it is nearly the same game plan, executed to extreme imperfection, by the man Trump now constantly reviles as “maybe the worst ever” at his job, Joe Biden, in the year leading up to his abrupt withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race. (And then again, by former Vice President Kamala Harris as she took the baton and mounted what would become a losing campaign for the presidency.)

President Donald Trump is set to speak in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in about an hour.

There, he’s expected to deliver a speech on the economy. Follow along for live coverage from The Independent.