Donald Trump’s lack of national popularity has been a constant feature of his political career. Since the 1980s, Trump has built an entire brand based on the fallacy that he was good at business and savvy about economics.
By inserting this lie into American culture for decades and using his reality TV show, The Apprentice, as a megaphone for the message, Trump was able to make his transition into politics based on a myth.
During its first administration, Asset He rebranded Obama’s economic success as his own and rode the fumes of what was left of Obama’s economy, but tax cuts for the rich and Trump’s first trade war with China had pushed the United States into recession before COVID arrived.
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The pandemic gave Trump an excuse that covered up his collapse of the U.S. economy for the first time.
After voters elected Joe Biden and then got angry at Democrats for failing to make inflation go away, some of the electorate fell back on Trump’s big lie that he could reduce costs and inflation simply by winning the election.
Trump has not solved the cost and inflation problem. In fact, he made the situation worse, which is why voters turned against him.
NBC News reported that Trump’s approval rating hit an all-time low in its poll:
Overall, 37% of adults approve of Trump’s performance as president, while 63% disapprove — including 50% who say they strongly disapprove — placing his job rating at the lowest point of his second term in the NBC News Decision Desk poll. Two-thirds of respondents also disapprove of Trump’s handling of inflation and the Iranian conflict.
Trump’s economic numbers are a horror show, and we’ll see why they end his presidency in November.