Jay Weber Show transcript 6-3-25
President Trump’s ratings continue to slowly rise-and it’s causing CNN’s on-air people to have on-air meltdowns...
And it’s causing the east coast insiders to seek therapy.
But the one thing it’s not doing, apparently, is convincing them that their ‘take’ on life in America-and what the Trump term is offering us here-
In this era- sitting presidents don’t need even a 50 percent approval rating to win a second term. They really don’t.
Aside from George Bush right after 9-11- no recent president has had approval ratings that stayed ‘at or above’ the 50 percent level for any length of time.
And so-for Donald Trump to be hanging around 50 percent for five months-and during one of the most rocky and controversial stretches of his presidency- as he’s ushering in major changes that many Americans find ‘alarming or disruptive’-
That’s interesting, people.
It tells me two things, at least:
First- we, the people still have the genuinely dreadful four years of the Biden presidency fresh in our minds...and we voted for change...and ‘this is change.’
And second:the pro-America moves by Trump-that he’s announcing and explaining as he’s doing them- is causing many of us to give president trump the benefit of the doubt and far more leeway than we otherwise would- as he makes dramatic changes.
It also probably speaks to a third thing: we like most of the things he’s doing.
And this brings me to the ...apoplexy... The aneurysms...that were occurring on the CNN set yesterday...as they looked at a new batch of their own polling.
This is CNN’s own polling-that is showing the American people still trust Donald trump more on the economy...and still trust him more than democrats-on everything.
Their data guru Harry Enten nearly wet his pants- and clearly showed his liberal bias-as he explained the newest findings.
I like Harry Enten. Like his enthusiasm. I find him to be honest in his analysis. But he’s clearly an east coast swamp creature.... because we just heard him characterize the trump economy as basically terrible.
There’s been so much turmoil. So much roiling of the markets. No, there really isn’t. Biden’s economy sucked, too, and trump is trying to make it better....
Then he says, ‘you’d expect the democrats to have a massive lead on the economy’...
No, we wouldn’t.
Why?
Why does Harry Enten- or anyone in that east coast bubble- think that the American people should be trusting democrats more on the economy right now?
We just lived thru four years of the democrats totally screwing it up! So – we are supposed to forget 40 year high-runaway inflation that got as bad as 9 percent...and kept prices rising dramatically for nearly four full years....
We are supposed to forget who gave us seven percent mortgage rates and 9 percent interest rates on car loans.
We are supposed to forget which presidential regime caused us to eat up all our savings and rack up debt on credit cards...just to get by.
Are we supposed to forget all of that? - in less than six months? And because Donald Trump is upsetting some investors?
Come on.
The American people might not like what trump’s moves have done to their retirement accounts-but the overall ‘hit’ to them hasn’t been that bad. Meanwhile-prices have been coming down slightly including on gas-and Trump seems to have a pro-America strategy.
But-some market turmoil should have us pining for the days of Joe Biden, again? Or believing that the democrats could ‘do better’ with the economy?
They just spent four years proving they couldn’t.
Enten-totally betrays the fact that he’s existing in that east coast bubble- with his reaction, there.
He also went on to say- and it’s not just our poll! All sorts of new polls show Americans still backing trump! What is going on, here!?
What is going on here?
Ah...core inflation is at 2.1 percent. The unemployment rate is at a wonderfully low 4.2 percent. Hundreds of thousands of actual ‘good paying’ jobs are being created again- not only jobs in government or cleaning hotel rooms...
Actual prices on groceries and both durable and non-durable goods have fallen slightly. Gas that was 3-50 a gallon under Biden is staying ‘under’ three dollars a gallon under Trump.
Is this difficult to figure out?
If Jerome Powell wasn’t a hyper-partisan, he and the fed would at least be talking about a rate cut...
And all this positive economic news comes-before- republicans in congress pass a big bill that’s going to juice our economy even more by keeping our federal income taxes low giving a sizable new tax credit to seniors on social security. Eliminate taxes on tips for some workers. Provide new tax incentives for businesses of all sizes.... etc.
And oh yeah, secure the border more permanently and lower energy prices, which should act to lower the costs of nearly everything.
Harry Enten is genuinely flummoxed, here?
Then he hasn’t been paying attention.
These are all signs of a healthier economy, even if the ‘bubble dwellers don’t want to admit it.
I know that the so-called ‘experts’ are worried that trump’s tariffs are going to touch off inflation, again...but they haven’t so far...and he’s backing off on most threats. Investors seem to understand, now, how president trump is using those tariff threats, and why.
Everything’s looking up, folks. It really is us.
We’ve got prices finally falling a bit after four years if runaway Biden inflation.
The truth is: the economy is improving slightly-even before- republicans pass this big, hugely positive, reconciliation bill.
And as I said yesterday: sooner or later Jerome Powell is going to look like a hyper-partisan idiot if he doesn’t follow the ‘best practices’ of the fed- and start cutting interest rates, too!
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audio version of the segment here > Trump approval rating keeps inching up