Jonathan Kott, a former senior adviser to Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Chris Coons (D-DE), predicted that President Donald Trump's love of spectacle will come back to bite him when voters realize he's not making their lives better.
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Kott said that Trump was good at getting publicity for appearing to take bold actions, even if the substance of those actions was minimal.
"People believe he's doing something," he said. "The executive orders he's signing, 90 percent of them mean absolutely nothing. They don't do anything. but he's showing them that he's doing something."
However, he also predicted voters would quickly run out of patience with his empty stunts.
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"I think what's going to happen is when they start realizing their prices aren't going down, the government programs that a state like West Virginia relies on desperately are going away, you're going to see a turn from him and they're going to say, 'Wait, you promised us all of these things, and now we're just getting this,'" he said.
He added that this was particularly obvious when it comes to Trump's approach to his threatened tariffs where he made major pledges to slap massive taxes on imported goods before backing down with minimal concessions.
"They'll give him 6 to 8 months, but they'll turn quickly," he said of voters.
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