Trump and His Stooges Are Destroying the Economy Right in Front of Us

The United States economy is slipping into a place that no politician wants to talk about. We have covered the Epstein files, the war powers games coming from Pete Hegseth, and the rising tensions with Venezuela, but every poll shows the same thing. The economy is the single biggest issue for voters. And the truth is that things feel worse because they are worse.

Donald Trump just announced a national tour for 2026 to convince Americans that the economy is thriving and that Republicans should be trusted again. That message does not match reality. Consumer sentiment is sinking. People feel like prices keep climbing while their wages stay flat. Inflation has become deeply embedded in the economy and Trump’s tariffs made it worse. Biden left office with inflation headed toward 2.9 percent. Trump slapped tariffs on everything. Now inflation is rising again.

For young people the picture is even darker. Youth unemployment is rising. Black unemployment is rising. Those are early signs of real weakness. And the most important truth is the one almost no Republican is willing to face. This is the best the economy has ever been only if you already had money going in. If you bought a house five years ago your home might have doubled. If you put money into the S and P in 2021 you might be up seventy or eighty percent. That takes no special genius. It only takes cash you already had.

Most people do not have that luxury. If you are living paycheck to paycheck you are not building wealth. If you are in your twenties you have not been in the workforce long enough to save much. You do not benefit from home equity if you do not own a home. The average age of a first time home buyer is now fifty nine. That number is a warning. This system works for people who already hold assets. It does not work for the people still trying to get there.

This is why so many young voters feel no loyalty to the current system. It is not because they want to burn everything down. It is because they are locked out. They carry student loans, medical debt, credit card debt, and rent that rises faster than their salaries. They are being told to work harder while the goal posts keep moving. They watch others make millions simply because those people already had millions. None of that inspires trust.

New numbers today confirmed what workers have been feeling all year. Job cuts have reached one point one seven million, the highest since 2020. White collar jobs in tech and AI heavy industries are being cut at an aggressive rate. Hiring is slowing. Payroll growth is weakening. And even Fox News had to admit it live on air. Announced job cuts are the highest since the last recession. Announced hirings are down. That combination is not sustainable.

While all of this is happening Trump is trying to tell the country that everything is fine. His supporters point to a four cent drop in egg prices as if groceries have become affordable. Everything else is up. Chicken, beef, bread, orange juice. Real wages are growing slower than they were under Biden. Inflation is rising. Purchasing power improved more under Biden’s final months than it has under Trump’s first year.

Bankruptcies are up. Household debt is at a record high. And the Republican decision to let the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire on December thirty first is about to push millions into deeper debt. People will lose coverage. Medical costs will rise. Families will take on more loans. That alone is a political time bomb. Republicans could have extended the subsidies fifteen different times. They voted against it fifteen times.

Trump will not mention any of this during his travel blitz. He will talk about crowd sizes. He will talk about tariffs that he still cannot explain. He will insist that things are getting better when the data and the lived reality say the opposite.

This is the real state of the economy. A system that rewards wealth and punishes the people who are still trying to build it. A system that feels more fragile every month. A system that Trump promised to fix on day one and failed to fix at all.

If anyone tells you this is the strongest economy in history, ask them if they bought their house in 2018, invested in the market in 2021, or already had ten million dollars in assets. If the answer is no, ask them if life feels affordable. Ask them if their paycheck covers the basics. Ask them if they think the next year will be easier than the last.

Most people already know the answer.

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