At less than three weeks into the second Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal somehow discerned on Friday that “The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring.”
The premise of the story by reporters Rachel Wolfe and Joe Pinsker was also highlighted in the subtitle, “Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump’s second term.” And as proof for this premise a grand total of one, count ’em, ONE Trump voter whose mood soured was presented. The broad sweeping generalities about the supposed quick mood change started right from the get-go in the story:
The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.
Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across the political spectrum to feel considerably more pessimistic about the economy than they did before President Trump took…
