Trump in crisis: chaos, insults, bad surveys

2019-08-29T09:31:20.990Z

Chaos, insults, lousy polls: US President Donald Trump ensures with his cocky policy for uncertainty among the voters. His re-election seems less and less likely.

Among the myths that Donald Trump likes to spread is one of his own invincibility. "That's how it is: I win!", He just explained again.

That does not just sound like a hollow phrase, like this time of day. For rarely before in this crises-dominated term Trump stood there as bad as now. His whole presidency seems to collapse.

In the trade dispute with China, he is on the verge of tweeting the world economy - and with it the US economy - into a downward spiral by himself. US companies are unsettled, the punitive tariffs burden important supply chains and profit margins are falling. Beijing, meanwhile, is far from making a deal with Trump on its terms.

Even many Midwestern farmers who have long been faithful to Trump are outraged. They are barely able to sell soy beans to China, and other competitors like Brazil are taking over the market. Maybe forever.

In surveys are in direct comparison meanwhile several presidential candidates of the Democrats from Joe Biden to Pete Buttigieg clearly in front of him. Even the otherwise so loyal "Wall Street Journal" of his friend Rupert Murdoch distances himself from Trump: The President behaves in the dispute with China like an "elephant in the china shop," judged the sheet horrified by Trump's announcement last week, new punitive tariffs to impose.

Above all this hovers the potential danger of new, unpleasant revelations: Perhaps the US Congress could soon receive from Deutsche Bank by lawsuit important financial documents of the businessman Trump, including his previously secret tax returns.

Zoff with the house transmitter - Pöbeleien against Puerto Rico

And what is the president doing? Instead of reputable rule, he beats wildly around himself. He quarrels with journalists over the question of whether bed bugs exist in his luxury hotel "National Doral", in which he wants to hold the next G7 summit. He calls his favorite station "Fox News" unreliable, because apparently some editors are doubting whether they should still rely on him. And after he has insulted the residents of the city of Baltimore, he now berates the US territory Puerto Rico. The island is one of the "most corrupt places in the world," he tweeted.

Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. Their political system is broken and their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt. Congress approved Billions of Dollars last time, more than anyplace else has ever gotten, and it's been to Crooked Pols. No good! ....

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2019

So inevitably the question arises: was that it? Can Trump still win the election in the coming year?

The answer is simple. It is no. If Trump goes on like that, he'll almost certainly be voted out.

According to polls, Trump and Republicans are now clearly weaning in key states such as Wisconsin and Michigan. In the nationwide surveys, Trump hardly gets beyond 40 percent approval.

At the same time, it shows that the population cares more and more about the economic future. An alarm signal for every president hoping for his re-election.

Surveys are unlikely to please the president

For the first time since Trump's election in 2016, a majority of respondents say in a recent poll that they believe the economic outlook is likely to worsen. According to Quinnipiac University, 37 percent of Americans think so. Only 31 percent say the situation is improving. Barely a year ago, more than 70 percent of Americans believed that the economy was developing positively.