The White House faces an uphill battle while Trump is ready to release the first State Of The Union of his second administration.
Since the 2024 election, there has been a tug-of-war between Trump and the American people.
The American people want Trump to focus on affordability and costs, while Donald Trump wants to talk about anything and everything. Trump continues to call affordability a hoax and claimed last week that he had defeated affordability.
The voting landscape, as rounded out by CNBC, shows a difficult political situation for Trump and the Republican Party:
In a CNN/SSRS poll released Monday, a whopping 57% of respondents said Trump most wanted to speak about the economy in his State of the Union. Immigration came in a distant second, with only 13% of respondents saying they would most want the president to speak on the matter.
According to RealClearPolitics polling averages, Democrats have built a 4.8 point lead in the overall vote in Congress ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Trump is 13 points underwater in that same average. Meanwhile, 57% of voters disapproved of his handling of the economy, according to a recent Washington Post/Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The Trump administration doesn’t want to address the real economy, so they’re pretending that Donald Trump wasn’t in power last year, so everything bad Trump has done to the economy is really Joe Biden’s fault.
You really have to see how Karoline Leavitt did this to believe it.
