{"id":436,"date":"2026-07-16T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:10:07","slug":"trumps-speech-tonight-wont-be-about-the-economy-or-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Speech Tonight Won\u2019t Be About the Economy or Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump will deliver a speech to the nation tonight, reportedly rehashing the Big Lie that he actually won the 2020 presidential election. Actually, the speech is only nominally directed to the nation. It\u2019s really directed only to the MAGA movement. The nation will not be tuning in, primarily because, by all available evidence, it\u2019s already tuned Trump out.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=434\">After Industry Request, OSHA Moves to Roll Back Ladder Safety Regulation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>More from Harold Meyerson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most recent example of this tuning out is the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\/Ipsos poll released earlier today. It shows the continued downward slide of Trump\u2019s approval rating, to an anemic 37 percent, while disapprovals clock in at 61 percent. Even more disquieting for the Donald, it shows his support among self-described independents down to 19 percent, while just 52 percent of those who describe themselves as \u201clean[ing] Republican\u201d say they approve of his presidency; 47 percent of these GOP leaners put themselves in the disapproval column. He\u2019s down within his primary racial base, whites, 54 percent of whom say they disapprove of his presidency. He\u2019s not doing so hot within his favored gender, either, as 59 percent of men disapprove of him as well. Among white men without college degrees\u2014his base of all bases\u2014his approval rating has dipped to 53 percent. And perhaps worst of all, only 15 percent of Americans \u201cstrongly approve\u201d of his presidency, down from 19 percent when the <em>Post<\/em> asked that question in February.<\/p>\n<p>No mystery attends the reasons why Trump\u2019s ratings are circling the drain. A robust 69 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of what the poll terms \u201cthe situation with Iran\u201d; 65 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy; and 59 percent disapprove of his handling of immigration\u2014a figure not likely to be diminished by his insistence that ICE keep shooting into cars that may or may not have possibly resistant undocumented immigrants inside them.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the shreds of information coming out of the White House, however, Trump\u2019s speech tonight is not expected to address changes in economic, immigration, or Iran-related policies. It\u2019s become plain for all to see that those are not Trump\u2019s primary concerns, even though they\u2019re clearly primary concerns for the American people. But this won\u2019t be a speech, just as this isn\u2019t a presidency, that\u2019s concerned with the American people. This will be a speech for those who Trump believes are the only real Americans, that 15 percent of the public who still strongly approve of his doings. Presumably, they share his obsession with his unrecognized, albeit entirely fictitious, victory in the 2020 presidential election, which he\u2019s supposed to take another run at tonight. His goal appears to be stirring up the MAGA base to the point that they will harass and assail Republican senators still unwilling to pass the SAVE America Act, which would give Trump the power to strike millions of Americans\u2014well, millions of Democrats, anyway\u2014from the voter rolls. Republican senators would have to scrap the 60-vote cloture hurdle in order to do that, and even then, it\u2019s not clear they could get to 51 yes votes. So far, that\u2019s a bridge that some Republican senators\u2014enough to keep that from happening\u2014won\u2019t cross. For his part, Trump has made clear that the SAVE America Act is really the only piece of legislation that matters to him, as a Democratic victory in the midterms would unleash investigations, at minimum, of his tsunami of misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=432\">How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The buzz around the speech says that Trump will unveil horror stories of foreign influencers, sneaky noncitizen voters, and vote tabulators besotted with the metric system, or something like it, who combined to tip the election to Joe Biden. He may allege that China was behind all this, though if you look at recent global polling, it\u2019s clear that majorities in many countries now view China as a more stable, or at least less capricious, hegemon than the United States under Trump\u2014something that was not the case during the Biden presidency.<\/p>\n<p>So if you opt to watch tonight\u2019s address, prepare yourself for Donald Trump\u2019s chamber of horrors, as lurid and ludicrous as those presented by Barnum and Ripley, but a great deal more dangerous. Keep in mind, this really won\u2019t be a speech for you or your fellow Americans, but rather only for the benighted elect that constitutes his shrinking base. That, in turn, mirrors his strategy for the midterms: It\u2019s not about backing policies that might enable him to win the election. It\u2019s about winnowing the electorate, as the only way he might survive.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierhousingreport.com\/?p=430\">Clayton\u2019s Trump Loyalty Becomes a Problem for Warrantless Spying<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><br \/>\n<!-- .entry-footer --><br \/>\n<!-- .author-bio --><br \/>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will deliver a speech to the nation tonight, reportedly rehashing the Big Lie that he actually won the 2020 presidential election. Actually, the speech is only nominally directed to the nation. It\u2019s really directed only to the MAGA movement. 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