It's not just one factor dragging Trump down, according to the polling guru, who says the president now has "profound problems" — even with his MAGA base.
The damage to Trump’s approval ratings traces to “about a week into the war when markets started to freak out over the likelihood of a prolonged disruption to oil shipments in the Persian Gulf,” wrote Silver, sharing a graph from GasBuddy data.
The gas prices are now well above any other point in Trump’s second term so far — or the last few months of the 2024 election cycle, which was heavily influenced by voters’ concerns about inflation and other economic issues:
Gas prices are likely to a sore point for a president who an election largely on inflation. In 2024, 40 percent of voters in the exit poll said that “high prices for gas, groceries and other goods” was the single most important factor deciding their vote, and they broke 2:1 for Trump. It would be hard to pick a more visible indicator of affordability.
Silver doesn’t discuss it, but normally, presidents also “prep” the public for a conflict — explain why it’s necessary and such, and Trump has broken from the norm on that.
He thought it would be as easy as Venezuela. They just pop up, kill the Ayatollah and replace it with another person (doesn’t matter it makes no sense)
In reality he installed Aya-TOLL-ah, lifted sanctions on Iran, turned US bases in Middle East from assets to liabilities and ensured that now Iran will definitively get nuclear weapons.
Silver doesn’t discuss it, but normally, presidents also “prep” the public for a conflict — explain why it’s necessary and such, and Trump has broken from the norm on that.
He doesn’t believe he has to explain himself to anyone, and besides is he actually capable? The man can’t stay on topic or keep from talking about himself to save his life. In his mind, he does anything he wants and the rest of us just deal with it.
Silver doesn’t discuss it, but normally, presidents also “prep” the public for a conflict — explain why it’s necessary and such, and Trump has broken from the norm on that.
He thought it would be as easy as Venezuela. They just pop up, kill the Ayatollah and replace it with another person (doesn’t matter it makes no sense)
In reality he installed Aya-TOLL-ah, lifted sanctions on Iran, turned US bases in Middle East from assets to liabilities and ensured that now Iran will definitively get nuclear weapons.
Also, Iran now earns about double on their sanction skirting oil exports, Trump is basically funding the Iran regime.
And, the strait of hormuz is so fortified that the US navy can’t move into it, since ships might get sunk.
Oh? I’m supposed to explain why I’m killing the puppy?
-Trump and the entire US government.
It’s not like he can say it’s to distract from the Epstein files and try to declare the midterm elections cancelled due to the war.
Yes I think the problem is identified right there.
Does Trump have a Boxing Helena fetish?
That picture is totally armless.
Maybe her arms are hands are ziptied behind her back.
He doesn’t believe he has to explain himself to anyone, and besides is he actually capable? The man can’t stay on topic or keep from talking about himself to save his life. In his mind, he does anything he wants and the rest of us just deal with it.
Have you seen these curtains? It’s Corinthian gold.