President Donald Trump’s protection of the economic system and assaults on opinion polls look like echoes of Joe Biden, NCS confirmed in side-by-side video clips.
NCS NewsEvening confirmed Trump’s latest economic spin was almost an identical to strains as soon as utilized by his predecessor and political nemesis.
“Tonight, when it comes to the economy, is Donald Trump taking messaging advice from Joe Biden?” host Abby Phillip requested, introducing a section that performed back-to-back clips of the 2 presidents insisting that Americans have been fallacious about how unhealthy issues have been.
The montage adopted Trump’s interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, through which he dismissed issues about inflation and voter nervousness. “It’s a con job by the Democrats,” Trump stated, when requested whether or not folks have been misperceiving how they felt concerning the economic system. “We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had.”
Donald Trump (left) greets Joe Biden at his 2025 inauguration. / Chip Somodevilla/Pool through Reuters
Ingraham pressed him, “You said Biden did that, too. He was saying things are great, and things weren’t great.”
Trump deflected, taking a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris—“Let’s say it’s synonymous. Biden and Kamala, you know, because you didn’t know who the hell was campaigning.”
Then got here the NCS split-screen. On one facet, Trump insisting polls have been “fake.” On the opposite, a May 2024 clip of Biden telling NCS’s Erin Burnett, “Look at the Michigan survey. Over 65 percent of the American people think they’re in good shape economically… The polling data has been wrong all along.”
Biden’s remark referred to University of Michigan shopper sentiment knowledge exhibiting Americans rated their very own funds larger than the nationwide economic system—an argument that didn’t cease his polling slide in opposition to Trump on the time.
Phillip famous the irony. “Trump is doing exactly the same thing that Biden did,” she stated. “And frankly, I actually don’t think we really know what the state of the economy is right now, in part because the government’s been shut down for over a month.
The segment compared the language of Trump and Biden. / NCS
“We don’t know what those numbers are going to say, but a lot of the signs are flashing red.”
NCS then minimize to the information: 59 % of Americans blame Trump for the present price of inflation, in accordance with the community’s newest ballot. Sixty-one % say his insurance policies are worsening financial circumstances—with a Fox News ballot in September exhibiting comparable outcomes.
Consumer sentiment, Phillip added, “is flirting with record lows right now,” echoing the temper from Biden’s personal financial struggles.