Despite his bluster, Trump was sensing that his moment had passed. The Supreme Court struck down his tariffs. His raping of adolescent girls was going to come back to haunt him. Whatever he thought would be the results of his economic policies, the reality is that the people are worse off than they were before. And this includes those who believed he'd bring prices down soon after his inauguration. He doesn't know what to do about the Russia-Ukraine war because he's delusional and stupid. He genuinely believes the garbage about Russia's having suffered over a million dead from wasteful "human wave" assaults for which there is no photographic evidence. Therefore he thought that Putin was desperate for peace at any price. At the same time, Trump very much wanted to exploit and humiliate Ukraine. So he pursued a contradictory policy of insulting both parties in the war and has consequently achieved nothing. He has successfully created a racist gestapo in ICE (while the pathetic Democrats have done nothing to restrain them other than to request they wear body-cams to record their criminal behaviour) but he has been disappointed that the bulk of the US-American people don't share his racist glee at the abuse of brown people. In his ignorance and stupidity he didn't anticipate the cratering of support for him from Latinos as they all find themselves targets for racist abuse from ICE agents (some of whom are Latinos themselves, because racists are uniformly stupid people).
