Loading ...- Inflation. He hasn’t started direct money printing yet. But he’s promising $600bn tariff distribution, $1,000 per child savings scheme, subsidies to soy farmers, $5,000 to households as a DOGE dividend, 50 yr mortgages and the tariffs themselves. Fail.
- Tariffs. Like a bull in a china shop. You don’t know what’s happening next. On, off, up, down, sideways; destabilising to trade, uncertainty and retributions. Fail.
- Health. Great stuff! Go Bobby, Go! Pass.
- Foreign policy. Tempted to make this an automatic fail as he shot his mouth off with unkeepable promises, but on the basis of he is doing less bad than his predecessor; neutral. (Must try harder).
- Homeland security. Pass.
- Climate and energy. Pass.
- Fiscal. No attempt to rein in spending, quite the opposite. Debt increasing, artificially trying to keep rates low because he can’t afford the interest bill. Fail.
- Markets. Pumping them like mad for the feel good factor; stocks, bonds, crypto, tokenisation etc. The bigger the pump, the bigger the fall. Fail.
- Mental stability. Look at his latest rant against air traffic controllers. He’s telling them to eff off because they can be replaced tomorrow with new staff on a best in the world new system that they haven’t ordered yet. He’s getting booed at the game. He isn’t used to things not happening as he wants, and this makes him dangerous – see also his tariff chaos. He isn’t good at thinking anything through. Fail.
- MAGA. Maybe internally it looks good, but from down here there’s a litany of broken promises and uncertainties. More like Make America Feel Great Again. We’ll see where it ends up. Neutral.
So in the poll, four (three passes and two neutrals).