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.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    It’s weird how he can just throw shit around with “executive power” and congress and judges then need to prove this and that. I don’t know America’s organization/structure, but I’m pretty sure it should be the other way around, where president doesn’t have the ultimate power for obvious reasons (abuse as single person) and it has to go through congress first for approval where multiple people check shit up and then approve or deny it. I don’t know, it’s just bizarre watching the shitshow going on across the Atlantic…

    • orclev@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 days ago

      Essentially Congress got tired of having to do actual work because it was taking time away from them soliciting bribes from corporations, which is the profitable part of the job, so they abdicated most of their responsibilities to the president.

      Constitutionally the President doesn’t really get to do much except work out the administrative details of everything Congress has ordered him to do. Since Congress abandoned that responsibility the president has a lot more control.

      Trump still doesn’t actually have the authority to do most of what he’s doing, but he’s abusing emergency war time regulations as justification despite this not actually being an emergency or war time. Everybody is just too chicken shit to call him on his bullshit though because then they’d have to own up to all the times previous presidents over the last few decades abused the same loopholes.