John King: We‘re Only Four Months in, ‘It‘s Not Fair to Say Donald Trump Has Failed’

RUSH EXCERPT:
KING: “It depends who you‘re talking about, right? In the sense of Elon Musk, part of the Trump base, the hardcore Trump base. They love Elon Musk. They love Elon Musk because they love his money. He helped Donald Trump win, but they love him because he makes everybody in Washington mad except for Donald Trump. And that‘s what they like. They like kicking the establishment in the teeth. They like everybody being mad. Even Republican members of Congress. Trump voter, a hardcore Trump voter sees Republicans in Congress, Democrats in Congress, everybody complaining about Elon Musk. And they say, thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Elon Musk. My question is the people in that room, right, the slice of people who maybe 20 years ago were Democrats who vote for Trump, who are not hardcore Trump voters who don‘t care about sideshows, they care about the economy. They care about they voted. A lot of them voted for Trump, then voted for Biden, and then voted for Trump because of the cost of living. And they thought Trump at least pre Covid, the Trump economy was humming along. I was doing much better. Prices were lower. I want that back. They don‘t have it back today. We‘re only four months in. It‘s not fair to say Donald Trump has failed. We‘re only four months in. But he is being his own worst enemy, as you know better than I do with all this tariff on tariff tariffs and tariff off the uncertainty, the tumult in the economy has hurt him. Now he‘s about to embrace a deal he wants opposed, and we don‘t know anything about it. Right. If there‘s actual U.S. control in this company starts to thrive, then Donald Trump, more importantly for Republicans, Republicans on the ballot in 2026 will benefit from it. If we find out in six months, you know, nippon steel, if it wants to, can shut that factory down or shut that company down or cost American steel jobs, then it will become a liability. That is the mystery of Trump. He says a lot of things that don‘t turn out to be exactly true. He says some things that don‘t turn out to be at all true. So this is a that is much bigger than Elon Musk.”