Six out of 10 Americans fault president for financial struggles and eight out of 10 worry about tariffs’ impact

Americans are struggling financially, grappling with debt and the rising cost of living, and are blaming the Trump administration and corporate interests for worsening economic outlooks for working families, according to a new poll.

Six out of 10 Americans place blame on the Trump administration for driving up their cost of living, according to a poll conducted by Morning Consult for the Century Foundation, which asked 2,007 Americans how they are managing the high cost of living in the US economy, who they think is to blame and what are the solutions.

Sixty three per cent said Trump had had a negative impact on grocery prices, and 61% said he had had a negative impact on the cost of living. Nearly half, 49%, said the Trump administration had had a negative impact on their finances. Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.

  • 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Anyone said “Maybe he ain’t the brightest” yet? Just asking for a friend. B/c they don’t want to get deported to a real crap hole. I’m curious about these new ICE recruits. I heard that if you waterboard them, they begin telling they mama’s life story.

  • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    17 hours ago

    Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.

    I fear how the the prices are going to go. It’s why I’ve been trying to garden this year and will continue next year to try to cut down on food costs. Also doing everything I can.

    But what I find hi-larious about the 70% of republicans is right now at my job I’m mostly surrounded by republicans and I’m doing way better than most of them. But part of that is I drive a shitbox car, eat cheap as possible, live in a house where my payments are cheap as fuck (that one I got lucky on timing on, but when asked if I’m going to move somewhere bigger I laugh my ass off.) I’ve lived within my means especially with it took me nearly 20 years to break $15 an hour, and that was a pandemic doing it, and when I broke out I’ve been working at keeping myself okay, not just going out and putting down money on a truck that payments cost more than my mortgage.

    There’s going to be a lot of people hurting on all sides, but I’ll at least help the people that tried to stop it. Those temporarily embarrassed millionaires that voted for this shit won’t get a handout from me for how much they whined about handouts.

  • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
    291·
    1 day ago

    Guess about 40% of the country is just completely off the rails hopelessly stupid from these polls.

    • smayonak@lemmy.world
      6·
      14 hours ago

      That percent gets their information from propaganda networks and those networks are subsidized by russia. Without that malignant influence they’d collapse very rapidly. Yet liberal democracies cant seem to find the political will to shut those networks down. It’s weird how US oligarchs and Russia oligarchs have a lot of overlapping goals. I still dont understand why they hate lgbtq+2sp

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 hours ago

        Hatred is a strong emotion, and it keeps the rabble fixated and obsessed on non issues with easy “wins.” It’s not really that they even care about queer people, it’s that they know stupid people enjoy having a group they have permission to abuse.

      • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        I don’t know why they hate anyone with a wallet, why discriminate, money is money, you’d think they’d be kind to people being so fortunate and having anything they want but that’s not the case, so the clearly have deep mental issues. Why does it seem like the richer people get the more and more they want? It’s a sickness, these people are sick in the head. I would go so far as to say they are barely human anymore. They should be exiled for the good of humanity.

    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
      9·
      23 hours ago

      Anytime there is a poll, results show about 25-35% are always either completely fucking brain dead or evil, depending on the poll.

    • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      It’s so baffling to see that number.

      You’d think it was majority percentage where I live.

      • Glytch@lemmy.world
        19·
        24 hours ago

        I wasn’t paying pointless tariffs under Biden, so my buying power is lower under Trump.

        Cost increases (like those caused by Trump’s trade war) hurt working class people like me more than rich people because it’s a larger portion of our income that we’re losing when there are no alternatives for necessary foreign products.

        I was financially better off under Biden and, if you’re American, you probably were too.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        18 hours ago

        The disparity in wealth wasn’t any better under Biden.

        It’s worse now. A part of that is due to natural developments (worsening job markets due to AI), but a large part is because trump fails to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, thus halting the circulation of money and stifling the economy.

        money is like blood in a human, it needs to flow in circles. it cannot only go from bottom to top. there needs to be redistribution from the top to the bottom for the blood to continue to flow. only then can the organism survive.

        • haloduder@thelemmy.club
          18·
          18 hours ago

          Really? Can you share sources of these projections?

          Edit: Downvotes, but no sources. Tribalism strikes again!

  • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    12·
    21 hours ago

    When he said “drain the swamp” he didn’t specify that to him, the swamp is the American people.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    961·
    1 day ago

    It’s funny, because while he has absolutely contributed to it since January and all throughout his first term, the systemic conditions that yielded our current state have been decades in the making. This is, per usual, the American populace coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.

    Note that this is absolutely not orangeboi apologia - I’m simply pointing out that this entire sequence got kicked into high gear by Reagan, and pretty much our entire political establishment did nothing to stop it and everything to accelerate it since that point.

    • crusa187@lemmy.ml
      49·
      1 day ago

      Reagan did such an incredible amount of damage, his presidency was definitely the catalyst for the modern era of suffering and techno feudalism. And with the abolition of the fairness doctrine, he paved the way for many Americans to be brainwashed into accelerating it.

      • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
        31·
        1 day ago

        What’s hilarious to me is how my dad and I used to talk about how reagan was a supervillain that kicked off all the shit we are dealing with today. This was maybe 10 years ago.

        Now he no longer speaks to me since I refuse to “take the red pill”.

        So, apparently enough propaganda works.

        • crusa187@lemmy.ml
          5·
          1 day ago

          Damn that is unfortunate, you say 10 years…so was it more of Trump propaganda and less of Fox News? Any idea what got him to believing Repugs were helping him in some way?

          • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
            11·
            1 day ago

            I honestly don’t know. This is a man who wrote in Ralph Nader for every presidential election of my life, until he voted for Obama. Ever since, he’s hard maga and all I get from him anymore is him calling me too woke, saying that I need to take the red pill, that this isn’t politics, it’s civil war. He’s gone completely and totally insane.

            Was always a shitty father anyway, not much lost.

    • Zephorah@discuss.online
      42·
      1 day ago

      Yes.

      The 1950s created the middle class and boomed with prosperity for working class because of government subsidies to the working class. Never before had this occurred in America. Always, prior, it was the industry/corporate class who were supported, and, drum roll, tariffs.

      Then, Reagan flipped the script in the 80s, saying greater efficiency in that prosperity could only happen if we subsidized the corporate/industry class again. And this trickle down economics was born. And never rolled back by DEMs.

      This legacy of corporate subsidy began to squeeze hard -2015, theb exponentially in 2020 and beyond.

      This was not felt much in the 90s. It’s important to realize the lack of immediacy to any of this on the timeline. Including the Trump fallout. He’ll likely be dead of his medical issues and old age before his damage really hits.

      To be fair, the Biden admin did start to roll back a bit of Reagan but 4yrs is never enough time.

      All the good with the FCC, for example, including making internet a necessary utility, like electricity, was wiped, with Trump. Consumer protections roll up, rolled back, with Trump. Attempts to undo trumps education secretary damage in the first term, fouled by Congress, and rolled back entirely by trump. Oh. And tariffs are back. So taxes on everyone at the grocery store and beyond. We can’t even get free shipping on cheap items any more, he removed that too.

      What’s great is full fruition of his damage will still move slowly such that it will only really be felt in full after 4-6yrs.

      The fact that billionaires even exist now shows how absolutely wrong Reagan was with trickle down.

      A middle class cannot exist organically in capitalism. Capitalism needs to be tempered by regulation and subsidies to working class or we end up here.

    • haloduder@thelemmy.club
      82·
      1 day ago

      Yes, Reagen is considerably more responsible for the current economic landscape than orange man. Consumer culture is an even bigger contributor to the disparity in wealth than any politician.

      But tribalism is strong on both sides, while both sides want to believe they’re above it.

      It really puts into perspective how ‘intelligent’ the average person is these days.

      • DancingBear@midwest.social
        61·
        1 day ago

        What it puts into perspective is how well the corporate media proganganda machine works… and it’s all of them… bbc npr, fox, cnn, msnbc…. All of them.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        We know that all the lead we imbibed before they removed it from most fuels didn’t help.

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      I mean with regards to this poll, yes and no. Look at the question framing. For some questions this is true but a lot don’t really leave space for that mistake:

      Did trump have a negative affect on grocery prices?

      Did trump have a negative affect on your finances prices?

      Will Trump’s tarrifs increase the price of every day goods?

      These don’t ask if Trump or his administration is responsible for high grocery prices or CoL or the financial climate, just if he has helped or worsened it. Other questions are pretty clear in their separation from this specific administration:

      Do you believe Corporations or billionaires have had an active role in making life more difficult for average people over the past 25 years?

      Do you believe congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats have made life more difficult?

      A lot of the other questions just have to do with how anxious people feel about finances or the concerns they have and doesn’t really ask about any politicians at all.

      Of course you are absolutely right that, in general, people have an astonishingly and consistently short memory resulting in attributing current problems to current politicians but I dunno if this poll is really indicative of that.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    3·
    17 hours ago

    There will be two years of hardship and the rest of the world will come up with a new trade infrastructure which will finally bring back some prosperity and Trump will say…“See? I told you I could do it.”.

  • Crambino@lemmy.org
    10·
    22 hours ago

    The best part is Trump has been manipulating the market since this tariff debacle started.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    264·
    1 day ago

    He got in to reduce grocery prices, and they are UP 2.7% from a year ago, when Biden was president. Good job, psychopath.

    All of this mess is on HitlerPig, I don’t want to hear anything about Biden, Obama, Hillary, etc.

  • Magister@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 day ago

    The most incredible is that there is still american people who, when they see the cost increase of something because of tariff, ask why the originated country like Canada/China/name it didn’t pay the tariff? And someone explain to them that tariff are paid by the final customer, not the manufacturer in the country of origin, and they answer something like “isn’t this illegal?”

    • KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
      9·
      1 day ago

      I just wonder what the tariff money will be used for. I’d expect it to the tax cuts for the ultra rich

        • KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
          3·
          1 day ago

          But I thought the rest of the world would pay it? Because, of course, we’ve been treating USA unfairly for so many decades now so it’s only fair we’d give more money to the biggest economy on the planet :(

          • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
            1·
            14 hours ago

            When I read that news I literally laughed.

            It makes an average of $5000/day while the deficit increases by $55000/second

      • Magister@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 day ago

        Yes I think this is the plan, didn’t trump gov said it already, that tariff are to finance tax cut? Tariffs basically collect billions of $ from millions of people to finance gov programs, this is a tax, and the 0.01% keep their billions $ for themselves.

        • Bwaz@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 day ago

          And it is a tax eventually on purchases. People need purchases, but the tariffs don’t bother those whose purchases cost a miniscule part of their income. It greatly bothers those for whom purchases cost a huge part of their income.

  • npdean@lemmy.today
    30·
    1 day ago

    The tariffs have not even shown their effects yet. Wait till next year and you will see people burning down the White House.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
    44·
    15 hours ago

    Welp, you lot either voted for it or didn’t bother to vote at all, so you’ll excuse me whilst I play the world’s tiniest violin.