On the eve of Thanksgiving, the start of the US holiday spending period, most Americans think Donald Trump is making a national affordability crisis worse.
About three-quarters of Americans view the economy as only fair or poor, according to Pew, and a majority say that the president’s policies have heightened the problem. Those who think the economy is poor cite rising prices as their top reason.
Speaking at Tuesday’s Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House, Trump, whose overall approval rating is just 41 per cent according to a Silver Bulletin polling average, said: “It’s a great time of the year, our country is doing really well economically, like we’ve never done before.”