{"id":44233,"date":"2026-04-01T22:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44233"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:39:31","slug":"44233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/01\/44233\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dots Make A Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep on gabbling there, Mr Trump on the stage, about <em>Trump&#8217;s War <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/01\/world\/live-news\/iran-war-us-trump-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t mention this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating on the economy has hit some horrendous\u2014and historic\u2014new lows.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on CNN\u2019s <i>The Odds<\/i> Wednesday, chief data analyst Harry Enten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/01\/politics\/video\/the-odds-trumps-approval-and-inflation-cnc-kalpar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> damning numbers for the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the economy. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; <\/em>considering the fact that the president has repeatedly claimed to have \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/21\/trump-inflation-defeated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defeated<\/a>\u201d inflation entirely. Meanwhile, the economy in Trump\u2019s first year back in office saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/economy-news\/soaring-gas-prices-to-push-us-inflation-to-nearly-4-in-coming-months-bofa-4593333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rising inflation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/207744\/donald-trump-gdp-growth-inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">very little GDP growth<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/206460\/donald-trump-job-growth-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">practically no job growth<\/a><em>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/208488\/donald-trump-support-economy-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The New Republic<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A dot <del>I<\/del> that should be connected is that the economy pancake is due to Trump&#8217;s War. It&#8217;s making the cost of transport skyrocket, and cheap transport is an important part of the world economy. The easily predictable cutting of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has caused that jump &amp; bumble of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>And the next dot? Why was <em>Trump&#8217;s War<\/em> initiated? Some of it was cheap glory; an erasure of President Obama&#8217;s arguably most important foreign relations accomplishment; but most importantly, it was, along with other nuttiness such as the planned Presidential Library, a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>A distraction from the <strong>Epstein Files.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an era of disrespect for truth and unprecedented literal power in the hands of the arrogant, the innocent are slaughtered, along with the guilty, in the frantic belief that those responsible are somehow entitled.<\/p>\n<p>Keep that in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep on gabbling there, Mr Trump on the stage, about Trump&#8217;s War ending soon. Don&#8217;t mention this: Donald Trump\u2019s approval rating on the economy has hit some horrendous\u2014and historic\u2014new lows. Speaking on CNN\u2019s The Odds Wednesday, chief data analyst Harry Enten reported damning numbers for the Trump administration\u2019s handling of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/01\/44233\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44343,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44233\/revisions\/44343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}