President Donald Trump is screaming behind his own eyes, and his misery over the state of his economy and voter dissatisfaction appears to be manifesting in the shrillness of his social media rants.
But one analyst with access to the numbers sees Trump’s torment and feels a sense of justice.
“There's really, like, no way out of this and it's his fault and it's totally fair,” said data analyst G. Elliot Morris on Wahajat Ali’s “Left Hook” podcast.
In fact, if there was ever a man who deserved to catch the full brunt of his terrible policies at the polls in November, it’s Trump, said Morris, considering the way in which Trump has hopeless painted himself into a corner with every move in Iran and ono economic policy since he reentered office more than a year ago.
President Biden, he said, caught much more abuse for much less, he added.
“When inflation came down from like 10 to 3 percent or maybe 9 to 3 percent, depending on what goods you’re looking at, Joe Biden didn’t get credit for that. And his party lost the 2024 election.
Meanwhile, Trump appears to have been expertly maneuvering U.S. voters into painful economic trouble on purpose — so expertly in fact, that there appears to be no way for him to recuperate.
“His approval rating does not recover as prices stop increasing as much, so even if things do get better on the gas price front … even if we do get a bunch of shipments of oil and gas out of the Strait of Hormuz if the war ended tomorrow and they just started shipping gas again — which, by the way, it's not clear they can do that because lots of those refineries are damaged or destroyed — it's still going to take nine weeks or so to ship that oil to America. It's going to take [additional] weeks to refine it, if it hasn't been refined already. And then, in theory, the Trump administration hopes voters will just give him credit for that.”
“But we know from political sciences, they won't,” Morris assured.
With all the terrible news pounding down on Trump’s head, Morris told Ali it’s a good thing Trump doesn’t claim to care.
“He said in his cabinet meeting yesterday, ‘I don't care about the midterms,’ verbatim,” said Morris. “… The natural conclusion is that he cares about himself, and the sooner Republicans wake up to the fact that he has held their party hostage for 10 years to pillage the government for his own personal good the better.”