Anthony Zurcher

From blackness, we're going to move back to redness, I think, aren't we?

Yeah, well, I mean, certainly the liberals among the United States population were shocked and appalled by what was going on at the White House.

The crass commercialism, they would say, the monster energy drink promotions and the cryptocurrency ads and the sports betting ads plastered all over this event on the grounds of the South Lawn of the White House.

It's unlike certainly anything that we've seen any president tried to do in the past.

Although I will say that UFC fans, some of the ones I know, were asking me if I had any inside track on tickets and if they could get and see it.

They were definitely excited by the prospect of this kind of high profile event here in Washington, D.C.

But as everything now in American politics, very divided on partisan lines.

And there are people who love it and love Donald Trump.

And there are people who hate it and hate Donald Trump.

Well, if you listen to the polls and the surveys that have been taken recently, they don't think it's worth it.

And they say pretty resoundingly that they think that the costs that they are bearing for this war were not worth what they've accomplished so far.

And it's going to be up to Trump and the Republicans to make the case after the fact now.

And you saw J.D.

Vance, the vice president, go on a round of TV interviews just recently trying to say that

The pain was worth the outcome.

But if you look at it, 60 upwards of 60 some odd percent of Americans do not approve of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy and affordability.

That is his lowest point of either of his two presidential terms.

A majority majority.

of the american public feels like the economy is getting worse not better and and these these were the big issues of the 2024 presidential election and they're going to be the big issues of the upcoming congressional midterm elections in november and if donald trump isn't able to turn this around and if the economy gets better if gas prices go down that might help but if he isn't able to turn it around in any kind of a substantive way then he's going to still find himself in a political jam when americans head to the polls in november

Pleased, relieved, I think, even more so.