Summary
A Fox News host, Jessica Tarlov, highlighted Trump’s declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance.
Trump is “underwater on everything” including economy, federal workforce management, Ukraine-Russia policy, and trade relations with Mexico and Canada.
The polling slide comes amid stock market tumbles, federal worker layoffs, and trade tensions.
Tarlov noted that Republican members of Congress are facing hostile town halls where constituents are challenging them on federal workforce cuts, including at the VA. Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”
I mean depends on how you look at it. In many ways, the world NEEDS to get off it’s dollar addiction. Having a hegemonic currency isn’t great for humanity as a whole. And Trump is doing the very best I’ve ever seen at helping the world cure itself of this problem. Not great for USA, but an important step for how geopolitics will work moving forward. Unless you meant doing everything wrong for Americans, then yes, Trump is awful.
I don’t know, I think what will just end up happening is china’s “dollar” taking its place instead
We’re just going to end up exchanging one superpower for another, it’s not going to fundamentally fix the problem. For that you’d need to do it more sensibly
It’s pretty destabilizing globally too. I don’t see the dollar addiction going anywhere; it’s just changing currencies.
We really don’t need China or Russia (or KSA or EU) calling the shots globally either.
There is a reason central banks are buying gold, and that it is making new all-time highs, and recently breached $3K/oz. They’re anticipating the demise of the dollar, and minimizing their exposure to the chaos from the U.S. and buying gold instead of U.S. bonds. Look for this trend to accelerate, especially once the U.S. reaches the point where it can’t sell enough bonds to finance it’s budget deficit, leading to a massive debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar. Gold is already on track to be up >50% this year (up 13.7% so far ytd), and the consistent rise in gold while stocks and other investments fare poorly will only fuel the stampede. I’m confident that gold will end 2025 over $4k/oz, and that 2026 will be even crazier.
Dammit, I should have never dropped out of my Applied Alchemy Program at the University of Phoenix.