The host has a confusing on-air reaction to Trump’s bad polls:
News Business host Larry Kudlow seemed strangely confused Tuesday about public dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, citing a RealClearPolitics average of several polls showing that 61% of Americans disapprove of how the president is handling inflation.
The “Kudlow” host discussed the matter with Kellyanne Conway, a News contributor and former Trump White House adviser, praising the president’s foreign policy and crediting the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” for what he called “pretty remarkable” economic growth.
“But, but, but, but. Interestingly, and I want to know your opinion on this, according to the polls, the economy is doing very poorly,” Kudlow said. “Now, there may be reasons for this, but I’ll just say that RealClearPolitics’ averages on the economy, Mr. Trump are underwater.”
“And on inflation, again, the RealClearPolitics average, and there are a lot of good polls within that average, is below 25 points: 61% disapprove, 36% approve,” he added. “I’m not sure why that is, but those are not good numbers going into the midterm elections.”
Kudlow, a former economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and director of the National Economic Council during Trump’s first term, apologized last year after wrongly predicting an economic disaster under then-President Joe Biden.
He seemed perplexed Tuesday by polls showing growing discontent with Trump.
“Overall, they’re just not good numbers,” Kudlow told Conway. “Although, like I said, the economy is starting to grow and the inflation rate isn’t that bad. It’s 3%. It’s not getting worse. So what do you think of that?”
Conway, who helped elect Trump in 2016 as his campaign manager, defended the president. He argued that the public has an “automatically negative” reaction to the word “inflation” and that they hear the term more often than “Trump.”
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“And inflation is that thorny issue that has been so persistent since COVID,” Conway told Kudlow. “People don’t like what they pay for things. But I would remind everyone that a year ago tomorrow, Donald Trump won in part because he said, ‘They broke it; I’ll fix it.'”
She continued: “It takes a long time to fix something so broken.”
Biden took office in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the economy and killed about 400,000 Americans. He then signed the CHIPS and Science Act, approving $280 billion in funding to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
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Trump took office in January and has since launched mass deportations that often involve masked immigration agents snatching civilians off the streets. It also announced high international tariffs in April, sending global markets into turmoil.
However, Trump’s handling of the economy is not the only area of concern.
A recent Washington Post poll showed that 56% of American adults disapprove of his handling of immigration, suggesting that the cruel raids under his administration are not as popular as he believes, while 63% said the same about his handling of the federal government itself.