One Trump voter told NBC News that while she believes Trump “deep down” wants to boost the economy, “he is busy out of the country” and focused on “demolishing the White House.”
The shutdown is compounding problems that have intensified broader anxiety over an economy that in recent months has been marked by lingering high prices for many consumer goods, rough jobs numbers, mass layoffs at major companies — including Amazon and Target — and an uptick in inflation.
That stagnation has in recent months eroded the high approval marks Donald Trump once enjoyed on the economy.
The bleak picture has some Republicans sounding the alarm to the White House — even though delivering the news isn’t easy.
“No one wants to tell the president he’s losing on the economy,” said a Republican strategist who said they recently warned the White House about their concerns.
I think the article has it backwards: the foreign policy stuff and the White House remodel are just distractions for the benefit of the rest of us, because Trump has finally figured out that, “Who knew that the economy is so hard?”
We got the first inkling that he understands he messed up by his sudden abandoning of the China policy. He pretty much gave up on his own tariff war without anything to show for. I guess the Europeans are probably fuming now because they made unilateral concessions they didn’t need to make.