BTRTN: Trump at 100 Days - An Epic Case of Buyer's Remorse
At Trump's 100 Days, Born To Run The Numbers asks one question: are voters are buying it or not? Most definitely not.
https://borntorunthenumbers.com/2025/04/30/btrtn-trump-at-100-days-an-epic-case-of-buyers-remorse/
Excerpts: "Birthright citizenship. January 6 pardons. DOGE. USAID. The Gulf of America. Canada Mexico tariffs on. Then off. The Riveria of the Mideast. Eric Adams. Measles. Ukraine and the press conference. Greenland. Panama Canal. Columbia University. DEI. Department of Education. SignalGate. Deportations. Abrego Garcia. Due Process. Constitutional Crisis. Harvard. Mega-tariffs. Stock market crash. Soaring bond yields. Tariff exceptions. Stocks rebound. China tariffs. Medicaid cuts. CECOT. Jerome Powell. SignalGate Redux. Pentagon Chaos. Putin bombs Kyiv....
"The question we have focused on is this: are the American people buying it? The 100-day verdict seems clear. While Trump retains widespread support in the GOP, his overall support has slipped dramatically. If the election were held today, Trump would almost certainly lose, with Americans now exhibiting a clear case of buyer’s remorse...
"Every other president (since Truman, when these measures were developed) has been more popular than Trump after 100 days. It takes no particular genius to explain Trump’s low and declining approval rating: it’s a function primarily of his management of the economy (stupid), his supposed strong suit... His ratings on both the economy and inflation are in the low 40% range, and declining; in his first term, both were consistently above 50%. Trump clearly “owns” the economy despite his occasional attempts to slough off the tariff-driven bad news on Biden. A recent NY Times/Siena poll dug deeper into economy concerns and found that 50% of voters believed that Trump had made the economy worse, while only 21% thought he had made it better.
"What next? One might be tempted to say “who knows?” But there are four titanic struggles that are in process and must be resolved soon.The most important, in our view, is the threat to due process that Trump is undertaking with his various deportation efforts. At stake, of course, is that if Trump ultimately defies SCOTUS, we are left without the rule of law in our land."