Trump’s Honeymoon Hara-Kiri

Donald Trump
Trump’s economic agenda is very much getting clobbered in the polls. In public polls we can all read, not private ones we aren’t allowed to see. Photo: Jim Lo Scalo/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
April 8, 2025

I couldn’t help but laugh on Tuesday as I scanned the latest news about Donald Trump’s tariff crusade, examined the gurgles of the slumping stock market, and read another round of dismal headlines about the global economic order. (A jarring one from today’s New York Times: “Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories.”)