“I would not want to be in the Oval Office right now.”
That came from one Donald Trump insider on Friday after the Supreme Court delivered what a former Trump official called a “stunning defeat” to the president’s ability to levy tariffs, just days before his State of the Union address which is already under a cloud.
According to a report from Politico’s Megan Messerly and Daniel Desrochers, the president has not only been unsuccessful in detaching his name from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, it has also grown with the arrest of ex-Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Add to that, there is the threat of a war with Iran, Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) actvists are unhappy with the White House, and the government is in a partial shutdown.
According to the report, “The president’s primetime address to Congress on Tuesday was supposed to set the stage for a tough but disciplined midterm campaign focused on the administration’s efforts to lower costs for everyday Americans and tout his first-year accomplishments. Instead, he heads to the Hill amid a torrent of negative news.”
With the adverse tariff ruling undercutting the president’s economic message, the president and his staff will now have to revamp his speech with one lobbyist admitting, it was his “signature economic policy, we’re four days away from the State of the Union, and he has just been rejected by the court in a pretty serious public way.”
“As Trump has traveled the country to celebrate his successes — and to convince voters that they should elect Republicans — he’s battling with an American populace that firmly believes the economy isn’t working in their favor,” the report notes while adding that his approval numbers are already at a record low.
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