Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

Trump’s Spin on the Economy Won’t Work

November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

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President Donald Trump is taking a page from former President Joe Biden when it comes to the economy: trying to convince Americans that their lived experiences of higher prices aren’t real. It’s a head-in-the-sand strategy that doomed Biden and the Democratic Party in 2024.

It didn’t work for Biden, and it isn’t working for Trump.