Commentary: Trump peaked on Day 1

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : On inflation, which was the biggest economic liability of Joe Biden's presidency, Trump ranks third and is tied with his first-term performance at the same point in 2017.
59% : Two economic trends stand out as Donald Trump hits the symbolically potent 100-day mark of his second presidential term.
58% : Trump ranks fifth out of nine on manufacturing employment and seventh on income growth.
55% : Trump has raised the average tax on imported goods from 2.5% when he took office to about 27% now.
48% : On job creation, for instance, Trump ranks third among nine presidential terms going back to Bill Clinton's first term, which started in 1993.
36% : The "hard" data on actual economic outcomes shows Trump in the middle of the pack.
31% : Investors thought Trump might threaten aggressive tariffs, but ease up once markets registered disapproval.
29% : The problem for Trump is that those are lagged metrics telling where the economy has been, not where it's going.
22% : Trump himself may see it coming, but if he does, either he doesn't care or he thinks the pain of a trade-induced slowdown will somehow end up worth the trouble.

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