59% of Americans Disapprove of “Strong Economy” 

President Donald Trump says it’s his economy now.

In a recent interview with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas, the 47th president said the country is already experiencing the Trump economy, Jonathan Allen reported for NBC News.

“At what point are we in the Trump economy?” Llamas asked. “I’d say we’re there now,” Trump replied. “I’m very proud of it.”

His remarks come at a time when most Americans tell pollsters they are not satisfied with the state of the economy, and as Trump executes a barnstorming strategy to bring his economic message to political battlegrounds before the November midterms.

An NPR/Marist/PBS News survey released last week showed that 36% of adults approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 59% disapprove.

In off-year elections last November, Democrats in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York hammered away at “affordability” on their way to victory.

Trump said the economy is doing so well that Democrats are abandoning that message, and he also blamed his predecessor, President Joe Biden, for stubbornly high prices on some staples.

“In the last four days, it’s only four days, the Democrats have not uttered the word ‘affordability,’” he said. “They’re the ones that caused the problem. I took over a mess in every way.”

Using figures not backed up by the administration’s own data, Trump claimed that gross domestic product has grown by 5.6% on his watch.

The economy grew at an annualized rate of 4.4% in the third quarter of 2025. It has not grown at more than 5% in any quarter since 2021, when the U.S. was recovering from the COVID pandemic.

Economic output also contracted in the first quarter of 2025, in part because of anticipated trade and tariff policies that Trump later unveiled in April, affecting the global economy.