Donald Trump frequently promised during his campaign and early second term, is facing significant economic and political headwinds. While President Trump continues to insist that a Golden Age is “full steam ahead” and that prices are coming down, recent data and public sentiment suggest a different reality for many Americans.
The current status of this promised era is marked by several challenges:
- Economic Strain: Despite Trump’s claims at events like the November 2025 McDonald’s Impact Summit that inflation has been “defeated,” official data shows that inflation remains elevated (around 2.7–2.8% as of late 2025).
- Rising Unemployment: The unemployment rate hit a four-year high of 4.6% in November 2025. Manufacturing jobs, which Trump promised would see a resurgence, have instead declined, a trend critics attribute to his tariff policies.
- Declining Approval: Public opinion has soured, with Trump’s approval rating plunging to 38% in early January 2026. A majority of Americans (roughly 60%) now disapprove of his presidency as they struggle with high grocery and health insurance costs.
- Labor and Wage Issues: Critics point to a series of policy reversals, such as the March 2025 executive order scrapping minimum wage increases for federal contractors, as evidence that the “Golden Age” is failing American workers.
- Political Fractures: Tensions within the Republican Party are rising. High-profile figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have criticized Trump’s global power plays as a betrayal of “America First,” while many GOP lawmakers fear a “Democratic rout” in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
20 reasons to be totally disgusted
with Trump’s “Golden Age”
- Illegally creating tariffs, which increase inflation and affordability, but denies it’s a tax on the American people.
- Killing exports of Soybeans to China via tariffs on China, Going against American Cattle Farmers Soybean farmers through illegal tariffs
- Killing Medicaid & hurting poor people, while not extending ACA prices subsidies.
- Trying to kill Obama Care again and again while replacing it with nothing and advertising he has an answer, which is still unknown.
- Pushes and passes the Big Beautiful Bill that gives billionaires free money while raising the deceit 3 Trillion to 32 Trillion.
- Killing Roe Vs Wade and reducing women’s rights to determine their own healthcare rights and abortions.
- Appointed many unqualified idiots to cabinet positions, who kiss his ring on a daily basis.
- Tearing down the East Wing of Whitehouse while spending 400 million to build his private golden palace.
- Creating Liberation Day while sinking the stock market, sending inflation higher, losing jobs 7.8 million, sending food prices higher than inflation rate.
- Sending ICE into many American Cities over and over again when those Governors want ICE to leave.
- Shutting down the Government again for over 43 days with no regard to We The People.
- Acting as a King and Dictator in America while the Supreme Court does nothing to protect the rule of law
- Not paying Government employees during 43 days of shutdown while they show up and work.
- Saying he is a stable Genius, when he is a moron and con man who sleeps in meetings, but takes bribes from many sources.
- Pardoning Jan 6th insurrectionists on the first day in office n calling these criminals Patriots.
- Giving $30 billion to Argentina but 0 dollars for SNAP PROGRAM that support millions of under privileged children.
- Supporting DOGE ILLEGAL intrusion into Social Security and the IRS then firing 300,000 Federal employees.
- Driving the American economy to recession all the while denying the affordability problems is here in America
- Trump dishonors and Illegally puts his name on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts
- Invades a foreign county of Venezuela without the consent of Congress while calling it an incursion and insists, “ We will be running it”.
