President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Kenny Holston\/The New York Times via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n
According to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> released Friday, 82% of Americans say inflation persists under President Donald Trump<\/strong> \u2014 including most Republicans \u2014 with one GOP-leaning voter adding, \u201cWe are struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n The poll, which surveyed 4,638 adults from Feb. 18-23, asked participants to reply yes or no to a range of statements. To \u201cthere is hardly any inflation in the U.S.,\u201d 82% of all adults responded no, along with 72% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats.<\/p>\n To \u201cthe U.S. economy is booming,\u201d 68% said no \u2014 43% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats agreed, voting in the negative.<\/p>\n \u201cThe economy is what he needs to be focused on,\u201d said 53-year-old Marcus Tripp<\/strong>, who leans Republican, of the president. Talking with Reuters after completing the poll, the Dickson, Tennessee resident added, \u201cEven as a two-income household, we are struggling\u2026 I am worried more about how much my rent and everything is going up than I am about whether the guy down the street has citizenship documents or not.\u201d<\/p>\n A Trump 2024 voter, Tiffany Ritchie<\/strong> of Corpus Christi, Texas, told Reuters, \u201cI\u2019m not impressed by what\u2019s going on domestically\u2026 We\u2019re not going to tariff our way out of this.\u201d<\/p>\n The poll offers a stark contrast to Trump\u2019s Tuesday State of the Union address, in which he touted<\/a>, \u201cThe [former President Joe<\/strong>] Biden<\/strong> administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country. But in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years. And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued<\/a>:<\/p>\n Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast, and the annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 just since I took office. One year. And low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem while, at the same time, protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives. We want to protect those values, we want keep those values up. We\u2019re going to do both. And we are going to keep it that way!<\/p>\n The stock market has set 53 all-time record highs since the election. Think of that, one year. Boosting pensions, 401Ks, and retirement accounts for the millions and millions of Americans. They\u2019re all gaining. Everybody is up, way up! In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States. And when I say less, substantially less. In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe. Think of it, much less than $1 trillion for four years versus much more than $18 trillion for one year. What a difference a president makes. A short time ago, we were a dead country! Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world! The hottest!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u2014 \u2014<\/p>\n The post \u2018We Are Struggling\u2019: 82% Say Inflation Persists Under Trump \u2014 Including Most Republicans<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":621158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,5005,5620,263445,110523,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-621157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-president-donald-trump","11":"tag-republicans","12":"tag-state-of-the-union-address","13":"tag-u-s-capitol","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116145626062799207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n