Trump scores poorly on economy and immigration as some fear he is ‘exceeding powers’ and focussed on wrong issues

Trump scores poorly on economy and immigration as some fear he is ‘exceeding powers’ and focussed on wrong issues

Americans, including some Republicans, are losing faith in Donald Trump across a range of key issues, according to polling released this week. One survey found a majority describing the president’s second stint in the White House so far as “scary”.

Along with poor ratings on the economy and Trump’s immigration policy, a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe Trump has focussed on the right priorities as president.

That poll comes as Trump’s popularity is historically low for a leader this early in a term. More than half of voters disapprove of Trump’s performance as president, and majorities oppose his tariff policies and slashing of the federal workforce.

  • cogman@lemmy.world
    17·
    22 hours ago

    I really wish people would stop idolizing business leaders as ideal government leaders.

    The principles that make a good business are fundamentally different and often in conflict with good government leadership.

    A business would say “oh that rural farming community? let’s ignore them. They’ll never make up more than a tiny fraction of our profits”.

    A good government, on the other hand says “oh that rural farming community is the breadbasket for the population. Let’s keep them happy so the people in the cities can continue to eat cheap produce”.

    And this doesn’t even touch the corruption aspect. A business leader won’t likely have the morals to properly regulate their own business.

    • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      19 hours ago

      Businesses are run by dictators called CEOs. Why anyone would think a person who has spent their entire career operating as a dictator should lead the entire country is beyond me.

      • cogman@lemmy.world
        4·
        19 hours ago

        Often, some of the dumbest people in the company. Unless the CEO literally founded the company, chances are really high that they are a know nothing nepotism hire. Their only skill was being born to a rich and well connected family.

        • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Even if they founded it, financial success and being disconnected from the day-to-day work eventually make even the most competent one-time founder delusional and incompetent.

          The complexity of how things work calcifies at the time they stopped being hands-on, so they often think everything should be much easier than it is, because they simply don’t understand how the company works anymore. International regulation, enterprise contractual requirements, evolution of new standards, etc.

          And whatever empathy they might have had before is eradicated by their financial success, which literally affects how their brain works and makes them less empathetic to people less successful than them.

          I’ve worked with both types. They both become the same over time: convergent evolution.