Being rich has never done Donald Trump any harm with his base. If anything, it’s done the opposite. Trump doesn’t look elitist, snooty or out of touch to the Maga crowd. Instead, he’s aspirational: they see an entrepreneur who got rich as the result of his own business savvy – a living embodiment of the American dream.
That image relies, however, on Trump’s supporters believing that the President is also making it easier for them to get rich, too. Some might hope to become multimillionaires or billionaires in their own rights, but many more would settle for a few more dollars in their pocket at the end of the working week.
Poll after poll have shown that millions of people voted for Trump because they thought he would be better for the US economy, and that he would do more than Kamala Harris and the Democrats to tackle their cost of living.
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Thanks in part to somewhat rose-tinted recollections of Trump’s first term, they thought a billionaire president would be better for their own bottom line. So far, that’s spectacularly failed to materialise.
