U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address to the country Wednesday evening as polls suggest his popularity has slumped in recent weeks as persistent cost-of-living challenges turn some voters off his presidency.

Asked by reporters Wednesday what sort of message he will relay when he takes over the airwaves, Trump said he will tell Americans he “inherited a mess and we’ve done a great job and we continue to.”

Federal data shows inflation is stuck at about three per cent while health-care premiums have soared and are expected to go even higher, barring a congressional breakthrough on extending federal Obamacare subsidies.

Polls suggest about two-thirds of Americans surveyed disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy — an issue many voters cited when casting a ballot for him last fall. The latest unemployment data, released Tuesday, shows the economy added 64,000 jobs in November.

In fact, the U.S. economy shed more than 100,000 jobs in October, many of them in manufacturing.