Trump's tariff policies have guaranteed that prices for $3 Trillion in U.S. imports will rise by at least 10%. His energy policies have caused 6% price rises for electricity and gas.

His move against allies to grab Greenland is unpopular. Bombing Iran and abducting the President of Venezuela was not welcome.

Sending heavily armed Brownshirts into U.S. neighborhoods to apprehend or assassinate random people is likewise disliked.

Trump's approval rating is sinking.

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One would assume that Trump would notice the upcoming ballot disaster and change course. But instead of calming the waves he is pouring oil onto fire:

President Donald Trump and his top lieutenants are doubling down on their hardline immigration policies and rhetoric following the shooting of a US citizen by a federal officer in Minneapolis — even as the incident has revealed cracks in the president's coalition.

A phalanx of top Trump administration officials fanned out across Sunday morning news shows and social media to publicly defend the officer's actions and the administration's heavy-handed immigration enforcement tactics, all shifting blame to Democratic state and local officials.

Why is he insisting that his immigration police Brownshirts are in the right when everyone who sees the videos of their actions recognizes that their behavior is simply abhorrent?

His party is worried:

As midterms approach, GOP lawmakers, candidates, strategists and people close to the White House are warning that the administration's mass deportations policy — and the wall-to-wall coverage of enforcement operations, arrests of U.S. citizens and clashes between protesters and federal officials — could cost them their razor-thin House majority.
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A new POLITICO poll underscores those worries: Nearly half of all Americans — 49 percent — say Trump's mass deportation campaign is too aggressive, including 1 in 5 voters who backed the president in 2024. In a sign of growing discomfort among the president's base, more than 1 in 3 Trump voters say that while they support the goals of his mass deportation campaign, they disapprove of the way he is implementing it.