President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy.

Much of the nation is worried about the direction of the economy, but Trump says the good times are here, insisting repeatedly that rising costs are no longer a problem.

“The roaring economy is roaring like never before,” he said. He cheered the lower cost of gasoline, mortgage rates, prescription drug prices and the rising stock market: “Millions and millions of Americans are all gaining.”

Such optimism, as so many Americans are feeling economic strains, risks painting Trump as out of touch. Just 39% of U.S. adults approved of Trump’s handling of the economy in February, according to AP-NORC polling.

Tributes to the Olympic hockey team and a World War II veteran didn’t unify the room for long.

The Republican president soon took aim at Democrats and blamed them for many of the nation’s ills.

Trump said rising health care premiums are “caused by you,” suggested Democrats “are not protecting” Social Security and blamed them for the nation’s affordability crunch. “You caused that problem. You caused that problem,” Trump said as he glared at the Democratic side of the room.

  • BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip
    60·
    2 days ago

    AP news doing its best to pretend it wasn’t a drugged out dictator rambling for two hours.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      I didn’t watch the SOTU but I see headlines like Pedonald claiming he is responsible for a “turnaround for the ages”.

      I’ll interpret that as true, but not the way I’m sure he intended. All economic indicators towards the end of Biden’s term were in a good place or heading in good directions. That’s what happens when you have adults running things vs petulant children chanting baby-words like “maga” and “maha” and repeating jingoistic phrases on cue.

      Since Pedonald has come in, he seems even more fixated on centering himself as well as enriching himself and doing absolutely unhinged things like fucking with tariffs.

      So yeah, it was a turnaround all right, but changing things from a good direction to an incredibly stupid and awful direction.

      And that’s just on economics.

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Was it just me or did it look like he was leaning on that podium really hard? He also sounded a bit slurry all of which support your observation.