Greed, misgovernance pull Trump down in polls

President Donald Trump has shown the world a classic example of governing for the elite without caring for the ordinary US citizen.

The midterm polls in the US are essentially a referendum on the leadership of President Donald Trump and he, or rather his Republican Party, has miserably failed to retain the voters’ trust. What a difference a mere two years makes. Trump coasted to a victory based on his promises of ensuring better days ahead for the citizens of the US. Instead, he has shown the world a classic example of governing for the elite without caring for the ordinary US citizen. Indeed, he publicly shrugs off complaints of the steep rise in the cost of living of essentials by saying it is not a problem for him. Nor indeed for the other billionaires for whom and for whom only his policies are geared. Small wonder that he has seen his Republican Party become a minority in both the US House of Representatives as well as the US Senate. From now onwards then victorious Democrats are going to make life difficult for the incumbent President of the US. He as well as his family and friends have added substantially to their wealth. He has talked up the price of cryptocurrencies and stood by as his youngest son Barron, barely out of his teens, is now the youngest billionaire on the planet. Crypto has nothing to back it, it is essentially a Ponzi scheme where the price goes higher and higher because there are those willing to buy. Should the buying stop, the crypto bubble will burst and leave several US citizens devoid of their savings. Trump as President has become a salesman for crypto, regarding the garnering of wealth by any means as his objective during his term. In his closing “argument” to the US voter, President Trump spent 45 minutes not about their concerns but about the reflecting pool he had cut into the White House lawns. Voters were unimpressed, as results will prove.