CNN’s regular programming was disrupted for breaking news as the network was on the ground in Tennessee speaking with disgruntled Conservative voters.
During the live broadcast, residents voiced their frustration with President Donald Trump, as inflation has continued to surge due to his extensive tariffs, which he previously claimed would generate employment in the US and strengthen the American economy.
During the CNN segment, one Morristown resident, Linda Bradley, lamented, “Sometimes things are four times what they were a year ago, it’s awful.”
A second individual was exasperated by the dramatic increases and observed, “Everything just keeps going up.”
Another local, Tony Mayes, informed the correspondent, “I used to spend $40 a week and now it’s $140, I just don’t think it’s going to go down for a long time.”
Delivering a troubling assessment, he added, “They’re not concerned with people like us.”
Linda added, “They said these tariffs that they’ve put on would bring prices down, they’re not.” She went on, “It’s going to charge more to make up for them having to pay to bring it in, and I’ll just say everything is going downhill.”
This represents a significant setback for Trump, who is merely 7 months into his second presidency and vowed to utilize tariffs to accomplish a broad spectrum of objectives during his campaign efforts.
These objectives encompassed preventing war, reducing trade deficits, improving border security, as well as subsidizing childcare.
However, as reported by USNews, Trump’s economic leadership approval rating peaked at 56% in early 2020 during his first term, but has since plummeted to 38% in July of this year, two months after the leader announced the tariffs.
During his April tariff announcement, Trump stated, “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already.”
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Yet, since that time, manufacturers have reportedly eliminated 42,000 jobs, and builders have reduced their workforce by 8,000.
Despite these figures, the President declared, “Now our inflation is down to a perfect number, a beautiful number. Hardly any at all.
“Yet our country is taking in tens of billions, trillions of dollars actually in tariffs paid by other countries who frankly were taking advantage of us for many years,” Trump added during a press briefing last month.
He further stated, “We’ve ended [Joe] Biden’s inflation nightmare and came in below expectations again this month, we set records, gasoline prices are down low and really dramatically and energy prices have been going down.”