Local opinion: Trump delivers chaos as his popularity takes a dive

With his popularity plummeting, nothing is going well for Trump. His Pyrrhic victory over the American people has proved disastrous, delivering a dark, incoherent vision for the future. Trump, the architect of economic misery and voter discontent.

His economic policies, the health insurance fiasco, and his failure to lower the cost of living for ordinary Americans are painful failures. And those campaign promises, which he no longer remembers, turned out to be lies as he slithers away from his fast-talking campaign declarations.

Trump thinks truth is a luxury Americans don’t need as he propagandizes and preaches disinformation and lies that polarize the country. But Trump has run into the gravity of truth: People are utterly exhausted as he soils the dignity of the office.

Trump’s spitballing us. It's made even crueler by his self-evaluation of his apparent failure, giving himself an A+++++ review for the economic damage he's caused. He cannot accept that his ill-planned policies across the board are failing. Is there any truth left in the man? Hell, no.

The latest AP-NORC survey shows that only 31 percent of respondents approve of his handling of the economy, the lowest ever, as the “Ogre-in-Chief” drives our tumbling economy into the dark hole of Hades. In fact, Trump has a net negative approval rating, a record low across all pollsters. There will be a reckoning.

In December, US business growth slowed to its slowest pace in six months as prices jumped to a three-year high and inflation shot up to its highest since November 2022. We cannot excuse the inexcusable. Republican tariffs pushed prices higher. Watch the tariff tax go ballistic in the new year because sellers bought it down for the Christmas selling season and ate the tax. His tariffs have cost households an average of $1,200, according to Donald Trump. “Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living.” Really?

Is something deeply wrong with Trump? Has Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) taken over? Is the president a sociopath or a psychopath? He is obsessed with grievances, vindictive, and prone to posting threats on social media. He engages in erratic, spiteful, and impulsive tantrums, slurring words, and forgetting names.

Our president still has his toady Senators and congressmen. Juan Ciscomani defends his policies.

Preaching austerity, Trump is raking in billions from his crypto investments, bribes, and secret deals with individual corporations, the “Broligarchs” he’s shaking down. He is so easily swayed by money. There is the luxury jetliner from Qatar, Saudi billions for his family’s business investments, the gold Rolex clock from Switzerland, and that solid gold bar from Apple. There’s no separation between holding a government office and making money for the entire Trump family.

Donald J. Trump is the most dangerous man in the world today. He can take us to war without notice, and we should all be alarmed by his motives, mental and emotional stability. He holds the trigger to nuclear Armageddon without permission from a single soul, including Congress or the military.

Susie Wiles, his White House Chief of Staff, recently told the press that President Donald Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality,” and he believes “there’s nothing he can’t do.” Wow and yikes! But we have his Supreme Court affirming that claim. Think: an alcoholic’s personality on the trigger.

Six in ten Americans now think the country is on the wrong track as our narcissistic wag of a President faces the stark reality of his unhealthy life expectancy. He has nothing left to offer MAGA. He cannot deliver policy, unity, or stability. He delivers chaos.

He has lost control of his political message, the “Unaffordable” economy, the midterms, the tariff war, Putin’s war, and healthcare. Has the MAGA-Trump divorce begun after he kneecapped farmers, ranchers, and small business supporters? Republicans will soon pretend they never knew him, not wanting the Trump stink in 2028. Still, for Donny John-Boy, it’s always “Me First,” following his lifelong personal policy that too much is never enough.