{"id":2483954,"date":"2025-09-09T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-latest-economic-pitfalls-and-failed-messaging\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:41:17","slug":"donald-trumps-latest-economic-pitfalls-and-failed-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-latest-economic-pitfalls-and-failed-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s latest economic pitfalls and failed messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trumps-latest-economic-pitfalls-and-failed-messaging%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2483954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the Trump management&#8217;s current economic messaging and its potential risks, drawing parallels to similar strategies used by former President Joe Biden that failed to gain strong public support and led to notable Democratic losses in recent elections. President Trump has promised to reverse inflation and lower prices immediately upon taking office. Although some price declines from post-COVID highs have occurred, newly implemented tariffs may cause inflationary pressures later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims from Trump and his administration about boosting manufacturing and creating a blue-collar economic boom, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-donald-trumps-ai-push-hurting-the-labor-market\/\" title=\"Is Donald ......s AI push hurting the labor market?\">recent jobs reports<\/a> have been underwhelming, showing weak job growth and a decline in manufacturing employment. Economic officials attribute these disappointing figures partly to lingering effects from the previous administration and note that it takes time for policies like tax incentives and tariffs to impact the economy positively.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has expressed optimism about future job numbers improving within a year. However, his current economic approval ratings are considerably negative compared to earlier in his term. Experts say that presidents often struggle to control or predict the global economy&#8217;s course and that political support largely depends on how voters are expected to feel about policies in the future. Some analysts also highlight internal Republican political dynamics affecting support for Trump&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials counter criticisms by pointing to positive indicators such as rising industrial production and manufacturing orders, suggesting a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >potential economic upswing ahead<\/a>, especially in 2026. The administration emphasizes a new economic focus termed &#8220;parallel prosperity,&#8221; aiming to elevate working-class Americans alongside Wall Street&#8217;s gains, striving for broader economic benefits for Main Street. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump administration risks messaging pitfall on economy that hamstrung Biden<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2224655\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s latest economic overture to voters mirrors former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s messaging spin, which largely failed to resonate with the public and led to significant Democratic losses in the 2022 midterm and 2024 general election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign<\/a> trail, Trump vowed to reverse inflation and lower prices across the board immediately upon entering office. And while prices have started to recede from the post-COVID highs of the past four years, the president&rsquo;s tariffs, fully implemented as of last month, risk new inflationary spikes through the end of the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3795638\/trump-free-speech-clampdown-boomerang-maga\/\">How Trump&#8217;s free speech clampdown could boomerang on MAGA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3798125\/vance-photo-trump-birthday-letter-epstein-fake-scandal\/\">Vance dismisses photo of Trump birthday letter to Epstein as &#8216;another fake scandal&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3794906\/trump-donates-family-bible-touts-right-to-prayer-public-schools\/\">Trump donates family Bible and touts right to school prayer at White House religious event<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Furthermore, the president has received four consecutive negative jobs reports, despite claims from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-trump-campaign-attorney-says-pence-may-ask-state-lawmakers-to-decide-election\/\" title=\"2020 ... campaign attorney says Pence may ask state lawmakers to decide election\">top administration officials<\/a> that Trump&rsquo;s policies would revitalize American manufacturing and usher in a blue-collar boom.<\/p>\n<p>The August report, published Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claimed just over 20,000 jobs were added to the economy last month, roughly 50,000 below expectations. Furthermore, the administration revised down June&rsquo;s job report to the first negative monthly posting since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and found that, in total, the economy has shed roughly 42,000 manufacturing jobs since April.<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/e.infogram.com\/52203c93-9ae6-4fa2-8724-c334859bf846?src=embed\" title=\"manufacturing\" width=\"550\" height=\"676\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump and top economic aides have spun these middling-at-best jobs numbers as a remnant of the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a couple of months. And with the manufacturing sector,&rdquo; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday during an appearance on NBC&rsquo;s Meet the Press. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t snap our fingers and have factories built.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The &lsquo;One Big Beautiful Bill,&rsquo; which has full expensing for factories and equipment, was passed on July 4th,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Many companies were holding back then. So, we are going to see construction jobs. And we are going to see manufacturing jobs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump suggested Thursday, the night before BLS published the August report, that it will still take some time before BLS starts reporting &ldquo;real numbers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In a year from now, you&rsquo;ll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible,&rdquo; the president claimed.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, Trump&rsquo;s economic approval rating, as tracked by the Real Clear Politics aggregate, was more than 12 points in the red, compared to positive ratings as high as 62% in some polls when he re-entered office in January. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The director of George Washington University&rsquo;s School of Media and Public Affairs, Peter Log<\/span>e, told the&nbsp;Washington Examiner&nbsp;that Trump&rsquo;s slight shifts in economic messaging over those months illustrate &ldquo;what every president before him has learned the hard way, that the global economy is beyond their control.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Politicians try to guess what public opinion will be next year based on what they see today, something political scientists call latent opinion,&rdquo; he said in an interview. &ldquo;Elected officials will vote, in part, on how they think voters will feel in the future. Public opinion about the president&rsquo;s policies today matters&nbsp;for the newscycle and the handful of elections this year, but what really matters is what elected officials think the voters they need to get reelected&nbsp;will believe a year from now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Loge additionally claimed that &ldquo;as long as Republicans are more afraid to oppose Trump than they are to support him, they will continue to support his policies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If it is politically more dangerous to support the president than it is to vote against him, then elected officials will vote against him,&rdquo; he concluded. &ldquo;President Trump has to make sure his policies are popular enough that taking him on isn&rsquo;t worth getting shouted at and politically threatened.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, White House officials maintain that the recent spin isn&rsquo;t simply political and pointed the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> to several &ldquo;positive&rdquo; indicators that Trump&rsquo;s policies will drive a domestic manufacturing resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jobs are obviously a lagging indicator,&rdquo; one senior White House aide said of the August numbers, instead pointing to core capital good shipments and new manufacturing orders, both outpacing expectations in July, the most recent data available. Both metrics had steadily declined across Biden&rsquo;s final two years in office.<\/p>\n<p>That aide additionally pointed to &ldquo;total industrial production&rdquo; surging in June to its highest levels since 1919, when the government began tracking the metric. <\/p>\n<p>Bessent told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>in an interview last week that Trump&rsquo;s policies, specifically his tariffs and tax cuts, would drive &ldquo;a big economic pickup in 2026.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3796703\/white-house-peace-vigil-remains-after-trump-ordered-removal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP ORDERED WHITE HOUSE PEACE VIGIL TO COME DOWN. IT&rsquo;S STILL THERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As we&rsquo;ve seen for the past two decades, three decades, four decades, working Americans have gotten left behind, and now it&rsquo;s time for the blue-collar boom. I call it parallel prosperity. If you were to say what&rsquo;s the new economic paradigm, parallel prosperity,&rdquo; he claimed. &ldquo;Because for the past, since 1980, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-dem-adviser-says-trump-trade-war-worse-than-harris-price-gouging-ban-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Top Dem adviser says ... trade war worse than Harris price gouging ban - ...\">stock market&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s done great. The high-end Americans have done great. Working Americans have not, and the stock market can continue doing great. Wall Street can do great, but now it&rsquo;s Main Street&rsquo;s turn. So it&rsquo;s not either or, as many people say, it&rsquo;s Main Street and Wall Street, and now it&rsquo;s time for a Main Street catch-up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump risks economic messaging errors that hurt Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3421,"featured_media":2483955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25251606084077.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32133,32319,62902,62903,5894],"class_list":["post-2483954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-current-events","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-pitfalls","tag-failed-messaging","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25251606084077.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483962,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483954\/revisions\/2483962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}