It’s been a couple of rough weeks for Donald Trump. Is even worse to come for the U.S. president?
CBC
This could have been a good week for Donald Trump, in which the U.S. president could have chalked up a political win over the Democrats with the end of the government shutdown.
But any gloating time was short-lived, overshadowed by the spectre of Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s past connection to the late convicted sex offender.
Instead, the White House was in damage control after Democrats released a series of emails related to the Epstein case, including one in which Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls.”
The latest revelation in the Epstein affair, which continues to dog Trump, marked perhaps the worst moment of what might be considered a couple of rough weeks for the president.
But it could get even worse next week, when the House votes on a bill to release the Epstein files — and public fissures between Trump and Republican lawmakers might start to emerge.
Epstein wasn't the only political bump Trump faced this week.
His proposal to provide 50-year-mortgages was widely panned. As well, an interview with Fox News angered many in his MAGA base.
Then, with consumer concerns about affordability mounting and his polling numbers suffering, Trump relented somewhat on his signature policy on Friday night by rolling back tariffs on some food imports.
It marked a significant reversal of a policy that Trump has insisted has had nothing to do with rising inflation.
But it also may have been prompted by the political reverberations from these past two weeks, which have not been kind to the president.
Trump's biggest political loss came Nov. 4, when Democrats scored major victories in a series of elections, including gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, and Democrat Zohran Mamdani taking the mayoral race in New York City.
“Tuesday night's resounding blue wave of Democratic victories across the country was partly a verdict on high prices and the cost of living during the first year of Trump's second term,” Axios observed on its website.
His political troubles continued the next day, as his tariff regime looked like it could be in jeopardy. Oral arguments made by the government that justified the president bypassing Congress to impose tariffs seemed to be greeted skeptically by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an opinion piece titled "Everything about Trump’s very bad week comes back to the same cause," Jared Bernstein, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said Trump had experienced what was arguably the worst week of his second term.
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