Mesa, ariz. (Ap) – Enrique Lopez votes sporadically, but bought vows in Donald Trump’s vows for everyday workers and aid the Republican Flip Arizona last year. Then the building contractor observed how the billion -dollar president opened his second administration.
“So, the prosperous control the penniless, I think. They do what they want. They get away with it, ”said Lopez, after having seen Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, and other tech mogul, in particular Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Amazon, Jeff Bezos, at Trump’s inauguration in the interior clearing with confined sating in the interiors.
The 56-year-old Lopez, a resident of Apache Junction Phoenix-Exurb, said that he was also affected by the lack of focus of the president on housing costs or consumer interests: “I didn’t hear anything about helping people.”
Trump insists that his general agenda will aid the American and middle-class Americans- especially his executive orders, which should reduce the production of geese in the domestic energy and the costs of consumers. Days after his return to power, however, the reactions of some voters are emphasized how hard it could be for Trump to maintain his populist appeal together with his hugs and tariffs and other duties and other guidelines that criticized inflation as a candidate.
According to AP VoiceCast, voters, whose total income in the household was below $ 50,000 in 2023, were divided between Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, while Trump won more than half of the voters $ 100,000 or more. The average annual household income in the USA is around 81,000 US dollars. Trump supported more than half of the voters without a university degree in the 2024 elections, while a similar proportion of voters supported Harri’s university degree.
The Associated Press spoke with a dozen voters in Arizona about Trump’s inauguration and his first office. Some of the mid-range Trump voters say that a lot of what he did, his campaign-in particular, reflected in his immigration training and the targeting of LGBTQ-friendly guidelines.
“I am happy about it,” said Lorrinda Parker, a 65-year-old retired local government in Arizona, who said she distrust both enormous political parties economy and what she described as a “definitely dangerous” border between the USA-Mexico.
Nevertheless, Parker expressed concerns about the company Trump. The political class, she said, was a “small island world”, in which power brokers “do not pay attention to the people”.
As a presidential consultant, billionaires could make valuable contributions. But she compared the official trio with a “technocracy” and said that they represent “elitist thinking”, we know more because we are so astute and added her wish that Trump is “a close leash” on her.
The White House did not immediately answer a comment on Tuesday.
On the whole, US people think a bad thing when the President can advise billionaires according to an AP-NORC survey in January. About 6 out of 10 US -growing people say that this would be a “very” or “somewhat” bad thing, while only about 1 out of 10 calls it a very or somewhat good cause and about 3 to 10 are neutral.
The survey resulted in warning flags especially for Musk, which Trump authored as chairman of the Ministry of Department for government efficiency or Doge. According to the survey, about a third of the Americans have a favorable view of musk. This is uncomplicated from December. The support for the special commission he headed is similarly low: only about 3 out of 10 US -growing people who strongly agree to the creation of Doge by Trump. About 4 out of 10 disapproved, while the rest was neutral or didn’t know enough to say. (The survey was carried out before Vivek Ramaswamy announced that he would no longer be involved in the group.)
Democrats and work -friendly activists now refer to Trump’s hugs of billionaires in his inauguration, while looking for a message to gala the resistance to the president.
“You can put these gilded age analogies directly in the foreground,” said Maurice Mitchell, who heads the party of the progressive working families. “The picture tells the story better than a thousand breathless op-EDs. … as soon as he received the voices and won the election, he is naked and clear. “
Mitchell compared the scene with Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos with Trump, who has been working on the immediate prices of consumers and refused since the election day, to promise that his tariffs do not feed any inflation. At the weekend, the president confirmed that he would end income taxes for tips, an critical campaign promise that some Democrats accepted last year. Nevertheless, Trump is also determined to extend the tax cuts from 2017 to the companies and the richest US households, Mitchell noted.
“There can be no doubt that Trump 2.0 is a government of, for and with billionaires,” he said.
Mary Small, who heads the strategy and organizes the efforts for the progressive group indivisibly, suggested Musk to “as if he were calling the recordings”, even before the inauguration, by pressing the Republicans from House, a budget contract in December with the to raise President Joe Biden at the time. And she noticed that Trump has already appeared with Musk with Musk with Musk, with his support for H-1B-VISA for highly qualified immigrants.
“Muschus says the calm part loudly,” said Mitchell.
He added the voters and supporters of the working class who are frustrated, but cannot simply rely on Trumps or other mistries of other billionaires.
“In a way, Trumps and Magas Hybris are an advantage,” he said. “We still have to fill the other gaps and explain the positive direction we want to take the country.”
