Poll: Americans are dissatisfied with Trump's handling of the economy

Americans elected Mr. Trump as president in the hope that he would fight inflation and boost the American economy, but on his 100th day in office they gave the president a poor review of both, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Only 37 percent of respondents in the six-day poll that ended on Monday approved of Mr. Trump's handling of the economy, down from 42 percent in the hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration. "You have a president who promised a golden age," said James Petokukis, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "But everything that should be up is down, and everything that should be down is up." Petokukis said that economic warning signs have put pressure on Trump to change his tariff policy, but even if Trump capitulates, the economy may not rebound quickly in the chaos.