The Pressure on Trump Is Building Fast!
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Why are Trump's approval ratings collapsing and what does 31% mean for November?
Trump's approval rating just hit 31%, lowest of either term. Thomas Massey crossed Trump, lost his seat. The DOJ just created a $1.7 billion fund with your tax dollars and almost no oversight on who gets it. And Congressman Dan Goldman is here. Let's talk about it.
Well, I just wanted to bring up in terms of just sort of the sticker shock of gas. Us personally, we've got three kids. We've got a minivan, and I have a little Toyota sedan. We have been for a few weeks now transferring all the car seats over from the minivan to the little Toyota hybrid, shoving three kids in the back seat. My wife's been driving that around, and I've been metroing everywhere. So a little bit of demand destruction for you there. We're doing everything we can not to put gas in the minivan right now.
So you get it. People are starting to feel it. And look, I'm not, as I was writing, you know, we have a new newsletter, Andrew, and it's called the Lucky Lemon 7, out every morning at 7 a.m. And I talked about this trip, and I talked about the folks who I'd seen this weekend. I didn't even mention in that the tolls, the price of the tolls, and the little things, the cost of food in restaurants, restaurant bills are higher. And when they go to the grocery store, they're like, oh my gosh,
How are rising gas, grocery and toll prices shaping voter anger toward Trump?
This is nuts. And so my question is, what is going on? When is a dam ever going to break? When you look at the public, at least 7 in 10 Americans now said that they're angry at Donald Trump's approach to the economy. And the poll numbers are really dire. Does that change anything moving into November? Or is November too far away and you don't have a crystal ball and we don't know?
Well, we've always seen this from Donald Trump is he has a tendency to sort of like sleepwalk on some of these metrics until they really hit a crisis point. We saw this, for instance, last year right around Liberation Day. If you remember when he first put on those tariffs almost, I guess, a year and a month ago now. in April of 2025 when he put on those remarkably large tariffs that were really economy strangling in their first iteration. And we saw, you know, an enormous amount of pain in the stock market, an enormous amount of just sort of anxiety all around. And Trump just kind of stuck with it, stuck with it, stuck with it until the bond market turned upside down. And that was kind of the thing that finally got him to pull the plug, pull the ripcord, change a bunch of tariffs.
And I think we could easily see the same sort of thing happen now, where Trump is still in sort of this sleepwalking mode. You know, his comments last week that you mentioned before that he doesn't think about America's financial situation. And the reason he's saying these sorts of things is to try to sort of put a tough face on things as far as his posturing toward Iran is concerned. He doesn't want Iran to think that he is softening. But at the same time, it is such a remarkably sort of dangerous thing to say when it comes to the positioning here at home. And it really does betray that he still somehow does not have the warning light blaring in his head that people are really, really on their last nerve with him about some of this stuff.
And the other thing, I mean, he also has this strange brainwave, and we've seen this a number of times in Truth Social. I mean, it's strange because the president is considered a populist. He's considered to really have sort of his finger on sort of like the beating heart of where the people are. But also when it comes to economic stuff, he has always had this strange split screen where unlike most politicians, even many politicians who are very pro-business and actually will kind of vote in line with business interests rather than sort of like mass popular interests, they will still sort of talk a good game about populism here and there. But the president does the opposite. We've had this strange split screen all along where, yes, he will sort of say that he sort of feels people's pain about gas prices, but he just as frequently will sort of talk cheerfully about how good it is for America's oil producers that prices are so high, that all of these people, all these countries all around the world are sending their tankers to the U.S.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why are Trump's approval ratings collapsing and what does 31% mean for November?
0:00–1:15
2
How are rising gas, grocery and toll prices shaping voter anger toward Trump?
1:15–7:38
3
When might Trump pivot on economic policy and why has he 'sleepwalked' before?
7:38–25:25
4
What is the $1.7–1.8 billion DOJ/IRS fund and who could receive its payouts?
25:25–29:28
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