Trump spent the week making a bold case about a booming U.S. economy with even better times ahead, as his economic policies kick in. The problem for Trump is that polls show a wide swath of Americans aren’t feeling that optimism yet — and in his initial attempts at addressing the cost of living, he called the affordability issue a Democratic “hoax.”
Hoping to tackle the messaging disconnect, the White House rolled out a $12 billion farmer aid package and sent Trump to Pennsylvania this week to make his case.
Trump has frequently shown himself a strong economic messenger — winning reelection in 2024 by lambasting Joe Biden’s economy. But one year into his presidency, Trump is struggling to convince Americans that the economic pain they see in their cost-of-living expenses isn’t real.
I’m pretty sure ‘his’ economic message is “I had a rich daddy, and have never had to worry about failure, and as such, I don’t really understand anything about finance, or the economy. I’m like a poker player that doesn’t actually know how to play, and never has to worry about money, so I just always go all in to bully the players with less money off the board. Then I claim to be the best poker player in the world even though I don’t know a straight from a flush, or three of a kind. Don’t worry though, even if it ruins everyone else in the country, I’ll still be fine because I’m just stealing your tax money while giving aide and comfort to our enemies.”
I think that pretty much sums up his position
“I don’t care about anyone else except myself, and I will continue to do anything I want if it makes me richer or makes people treat me like a king”.