{"id":3880,"date":"2026-07-24T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T19:07:38","slug":"like-louis-xiv-vomited-on-everything-news-anchor-tears-apart-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"‘Like Louis XIV vomited on everything’: News anchor tears apart Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MS NOW anchor Katy Tur and panelists tried to puzzle through President Donald Trump\u2019s tone-deaf reaction to voters\u2019 economic suffering, but the conclusion they reached was that Trump doesn\u2019t care to please voters. Instead, he has other plans.<\/p>\n

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New Yorker writer Susan Glasser pointed out that Trump appears criminally unaware of polls and incapable of adjusting his behavior on expensive tariffs or the inflationary results of his Iran war to help either himself or his party in November.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 Trump’s policies are extremely unpopular,\u201d said Glasser on a Friday\u2019s \u201cMoment with Katy Tur,\u201d explaining that his historic lows are worse going into the midterm elections than in his first term. \u201cEven in Trump’s first term, he was personally polarizing and unpopular. But a lot of people had the view that this former businessman was somehow going to be good for the economy. And consistently people would say, \u2018well, maybe I don’t like him, or I’m not sure, but he’s been good for the economy,\u2019 and that helped to float him through \u2026 a politically problematic moment of his first presidency. This time, what you have is a situation where, again, he’s very unpopular. Over 60 percent of voters in many polls right now are saying they don’t approve of his job as president, but even more of them don’t approve of the job he’s doing on the economy.\u201d <\/p>\n

This includes more than Democrats and Republican leaning independents, Glasser added. Even Republicans are softening on the president on the crucial question of the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd trump is giving them almost nothing,\u201d Glasser said. \u201cNot only is he raising prices, in effect with his policies, he has taken to saying affordability is a made-up hoax. He says the Democrats invented this word and it’s not even true. It doesn’t mean anything. And, you know, it’s not a very good way to get the voters empathy if you’re saying basically \u2018stop whining.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI get you on that,\u201d said Tur. \u201cIt’s not just that \u2026 he doesn’t want to admit that affordability is a problem or is something that Americans have been concerned about for a long time. It’s the optics of what he’s focused on and what he’s doing physically in some spaces as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tur then played video of Trump\u2019s gilded Oval Office, taken by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s like Louis XIV vomited all over the Oval Office,\u201d said Tur. \u201cI mean, I honestly think \u2026 Louis the 14th would look at this and say, \u2018this is too much.\u2019 There is so much gold in this room that that I don’t know who he thinks he’s impressing by this because the American public, if they’re telling everybody that their top concern is affordability, if they’re being asked to pay more for Donald Trump’s war, they’re being asked to pay more for his \u2026 tariffs, etc. Everything is going up. And they look at the White House and this man is obsessed with pasting gold medallions to everything, optically I don’t understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do it,\u201d demanded Tur. \u201cIf you say he believes he just has this faith in tariffs, fine. But then why add to all of that by turning the Oval Office into a gilded mausoleum, and then also telling everybody that affordability is a hoax?<\/p>\n

To this, Glasser said Trump has no cause to win votes of popularity among American voters because he plans to snatch power through other means.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump has become very expert over his decade in power in the Republican Party, at repeating lies over and over again. And the fact that he’s ceding the ground now so far in advance of the election this fall and already saying \u2018it’s rigged\u2019 before anyone’s ever cast any vote, I think that’s what we need to pay attention to, frankly,\u201d said Glasser.<\/p>\n

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