Why are Americans abandoning Trump on the economy?
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Affordability is the word that Zohran Mamdani made the centre of his New York mayoral campaign after watching the Democrats lose so badly in 2024. But now it’s the Republicans and President Trump that have to convince voters the economy is going in the right direction. And 70 percent of them no longer trust Trump to get it right. What does this mean for the midterms?
Later, why the Supreme Court could be about to hand Trump the power he craves to fire whoever he fancies. We talk to Slate' s Mark Joseph Stern.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | But I do want to talk about the economy, sir, here at home. |
| 0:15.7 | And I wonder what grade you would give. |
| 0:18.3 | A plus. |
| 0:19.4 | A plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, plus. |
| 0:21.9 | That is Donald Trump telling Politico how well the economy is doing. He's very good at inventing |
| 0:29.9 | things that have very little relation to the truth. But the buzzword in America right now is |
| 0:35.7 | affordability. Does he get that? |
| 0:38.6 | But if you look at the polls, the American people are giving Donald Trump a D-minus, minus, minus-minus-minus for the state of the economy. |
| 0:47.1 | Only 31% approving of the way the US economy is being run by this administration. What does that mean for next |
| 0:56.5 | November's midterms? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and |
| 1:04.8 | John Sopal. It's John. It's Emily. And variously, Donald Trump has tried to describe this issue of affordability as a democratic |
| 1:14.3 | hoax that people are just falling for as if it's a sort of, I don't know, some conspiracy |
| 1:18.5 | theory got up and has no relationship to reality. |
| 1:22.8 | But if you're not feeling that you can afford things, there is all sorts of data which backs that up of people saying, |
| 1:29.6 | I haven't been able to afford to go and see a doctor because I can't afford the payment. I |
| 1:33.5 | haven't been able to afford to get a prescription because I haven't got enough money. I can't afford |
| 1:37.5 | to go on a holiday. I can't afford to do this. And so increasingly, Americans are talking about |
| 1:42.6 | an affordability crisis. Donald Trump is being told by |
| 1:47.3 | his AIDS, you have to acknowledge this. And Donald Trump is really struggling because he keeps |
| 1:54.0 | wanting to call it a hoax while being sent out by the White House on his affordability tour |
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