The 79-year-old president took the stage brandishing a thick booklet titled “Accomplishments,” which he leafed through as he once again touted how the U.S. became “the hottest country in the world” thanks to his policies.

But Trump thinks his message on the supposed success of the economy isn’t getting across—and mused that his own team might be to blame.

“We’ve had the best stock market in history, the best 401Ks in history. And we inherited a mess. The numbers that we inherited were way up. And now we brought them, almost all of them, way down,” he insisted. “I mean, I’m not getting—maybe I have bad public relations people, but we’re not getting it across.”

The White House press team did not immediately return a request for comment.

...at the end of Trump’s first year back in office, a new Yahoo/YouGov poll finds that more Americans than ever think he’s been a “worse president than they expected” — and that he’s “changing America for the worse” as well.

The survey of 1,709 U.S. adults was conducted from Jan. 8 to 12, right after Trump toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, threatened to forcibly take Greenland from Denmark and mused about using the Insurrection Act against anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis — and right before he and his team celebrated “One Year of MAGA” with a series of posts on social media.

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But a growing number of Americans seem to disagree. For instance, 49% now say Trump is changing America for the worse — compared to just 34% who say he is changing America for the better. (Only 7% say he’s “not really changing anything.”)

Last March, Trump’s “for the worse” number was 6 percentage points lower (43%) and his “for the better” number was 6 points higher (40%). The gap between the two numbers was 3 points; now it’s 15.

Why? Because among independents, there has been a significant shift away from Trump.

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The cost of living remains the biggest drag on Trump’s presidency. A full 70% of Americans now say he has “not focused on it enough”; less than a quarter say he’s focused on it “the right amount” (21%) or “too much (2%).

In contrast, most Americans (52%) say Trump has focused too much on “arresting and deporting immigrants.”

As Trump’s poll numbers have declined, he has increasingly blamed his predecessor, President Joe Biden. Yet just 22% of Americans agree that Biden is “most responsible” for “the current state of the country.” A majority (53%) say Trump is most responsible. The rest (25%) say “both equally.”

Trump went on to brag that his tariffs had been successful and were on track to drastically slash the trade deficit, despite widespread concerns that they’re pushing up prices for consumers. And he claimed without evidence that federal employees fired under his administration were now finding better jobs in the private sector.

“They started off hating me when we fired them, and now they love me,” he said, asserting that some workers had now double or triple their federal salary.

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President Donald Trump just delivered an extended tirade on the use of green energy, specifically windmills, suggesting it has led to Europe’s downfall.

“Here in Europe, we’ve seen the fate that the radical left tried to impose on America,” he said, describing windmills “all over the place” that are “destroying the land.”