President Donald Trump softens his economic messaging as indicators weaken

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : " As Trump rolls out new tariffs and moves forward with shrinking the federal workforce, his economic messaging lately has focused on bracing Americans for a potential short-term hit with the promise of a long-term benefit.
54% : It won't be much," Trump said of his tariff plans during a March 4 address to Congress.
37% : While the markets roared when Trump was elected, those gains have since been wiped out and other economic data has started to signal a slowing of the economy.
36% : Trump last week, responding to back-to-back days of drops in the market, reframed his response to recessionary concerns.
35% : I think this country is going to boom," Trump said, when asked by an ABC News reporter if he believed the country was heading toward a recession.
24% : " A day after Trump declined to rule out a recession during a March 9 interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, the stock market experienced its sharpest decline of the year.
23% : "I hate to predict things like that," Trump said when asked about the prospect of a recession.

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