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Donald Trump is in deep do do according to three national surveys conducted this month. Polls for the Associated Press and NBC presented presidential performance ratings underwater more than 20 points. The 47th president just missed the terrible trifecta with a negative job rating of 19 percent in a survey for Quinnipiac University. It’s like he just played the slot machine in one of his old bankrupt casinos and came up all lemons.

His job rating is now as deep underwater as the Titanic is in the cold icy depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, ominous storm clouds hover over the beleaguered MAGA citadels in the White House and on Capitol Hill. The midterm election is a referendum on the incumbent chief executive. Unless there is a sharp increase in President Trump’s fortunes in the next eight months, his party will pay the price for his high crimes and misdemeanors in November.

The nature of public discontent is obvious in a recent national poll conducted by YouGov.com for The Economist. The biggest concern among adult Americans is inflation, with no other problem even close to it on the top 40 public opinion hit parade. The lame duck president’s score for fighting inflation was negative 28. You do the math.

That’s hardly a surprise since prices rose by 2.4 percent in the ninth month of his encore administration. This is the guy who promised repeatedly during his 2024 campaign that he would bring prices down on Day One of his second term. Americans are holding him accountable for his broken promise.

The two major initiatives of Trump term two have only served to intensify the economic carnage. His terrible tariffs have raised consumer prices. His big bad budget gave tax cuts to bankers and billionaires which accelerated the income growth for the wealthy at the expense of middle Americans.

While mothers and fathers struggle to feed their families at home, Trump has focused on fights abroad. The public wants cheaper butter but Trump’s priority is more guns. He has rattled a blunt saber against NATO allies Canada and Denmark, taken control of Venezuela and threatened Iran. But he has done little to improve the health, wealth and well-being of hardworking American families.

Trump’s callous indifference to the economic hardships faced by ordinary Americans is no skin off his back. But it is a serious concern for the congressional Republicans who have already begun a mass exodus which will accelerate after the midterms. But their dear leader doesn’t care about the dangers facing the party that sold its soul and brought him to power.

He can’t run for reelection for a third term, so he need not worry about public opinion. If he wants to stay in office, the only way he can continue his presidential run is to completely ignore public opinion and use ICE, his paramilitary personal police force to mount a bloody coup. Don’t put it past him.

If he is forced to leave the Oval Office against his will, before or after the end of his term, he is well set up for life.

He and his family have made millions of dollars during his presidency. The Supreme Court decision to grant absolute presidential immunity means he has no post presidential legal jeopardy hanging over his head. He also will have enough buildings and monuments with his name on them to satisfy his outsized ego. He has everything he needs except for that ever so elusive Nobel Peace Prize.

The only things left for him to enjoy on the sun kissed shore of Mar-a-Lago will be his ill-gotten gains, gold plated toilets and endless rounds of golf in the company of young females and fawning sycophants.

Brad Bannon is a national Democratic strategist and CEO of Bannon Communications. He writes weekly for The Hill and hosts the popular progressive podcast on power, politics and policy, Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon. 

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