Poll: 53% Say Finances Worsened Under Trump
The Spin
Anti-Trump narrative
The economy is failing Americans under Trump, and the numbers back it up — 53% of registered voters say their finances have gotten worse since January 2025, including nearly a quarter of Republicans. Inflation sits at 3.4%, higher than when Biden left office, real wages are declining and consumer sentiment has cratered. Democrats now lead on jobs and the economy, the very issues that carried Trump to victory in 2024.
Pro-Trump narrative
Negative polls and hostile media coverage are deliberately burying the Trump administration's real record — 81 stock market highs in a year and a half, $19.2 trillion in investment, the highest employment numbers ever recorded and the lowest crime rate in history. The media fixates on cherry-picked charts while ignoring historic wins on drug prices, border security and military strength. Voters paying attention to actual results, not slanted coverage, see a very different picture.
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