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At a campaign rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, Trump threatened to cut off disaster aid to the western part of the state. The same night, Trump trashed the state's public safety record. He told the Gastonia crowd that North Carolina "was beautiful" but now is criminally dangerous and “one of the worst in the whole nation."

Polling shows widespread opposition to new data center construction across the United States. Trump has addressed the opposition directly on more than one occasion, saying that he only reason communities should not want data centers is if they want to end up "backwards and poor."

Donald Trump described the United States' ongoing military engagement with Iran as "small potatoes," pushing back on the suggestion that the deaths of 18 U.S. service members warranted a graver characterization of the conflict.

President Trump brushed aside mounting concerns about American sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, calling their nearly nine-month deployment to the Middle East "not nearly long enough" — even as a crisis was unfolding aboard the ship.

Across the country, American families are grappling with rising grocery bills, gas prices, and feeling the squeeze from every direction. A reporter asked Trump if he was concerned by the inflation numbers. He said "No, I love it."

Gas prices are up more than 30% since the start of the war in Iran. American families are feeling the sharp rise in prices hitting their everyday lives. Trump has dismissed concerns about Americans' finances saying "it's all right."

Donald Trump has had a pattern of contempt for those who serve, calling America's war dead "losers" and the Marines killed at Belleau Wood "suckers."

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation," Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn before boarding a flight to China for meetings with President Xi Jinping. "I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all."

More than a year and a half into his second term, President Donald Trump is struggling to win over the American public — a new war, rising prices at the pump, and growing unease among his own voters are making that task harder by the day.