{"id":37465,"date":"2025-03-31T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/donald-trump-says-he-is-not-joking-over-possible-third-term-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:27:00","slug":"donald-trump-says-he-is-not-joking-over-possible-third-term-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/donald-trump-says-he-is-not-joking-over-possible-third-term-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says he is \u2018not joking\u2019 over possible third term \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President tells NBC \u2018there are methods\u2019 in securing a third term despite constitutional barriers<\/p>\n<p>Immigration remains a strength for Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.<\/p>\n<p> About half of US adults approve of <strong>Trump\u2019s approach to immigration<\/strong>, the survey shows, but <strong>only about 4 in 10 have a positive view of the way he\u2019s handling the economy and trade negotiations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trump\u2019s efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration. But it also suggests that the Republican president\u2019s threats to impose tariffs \u2014 which have been accompanied by tumbling consumer confidence and wild stock market swings \u2014 might be erasing his advantage on another issue that he made central to his winning 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n<p> The economy was a drag on then-President Joe Biden, who saw the share of Americans who approved of his handling of the economy fall to a low of roughly 3 in 10 in 2023. Trump drew considerable strength in November from voters who prioritized the economy, but just before he took office in January, an AP-NORC poll found that few Americans had high confidence that he\u2019d make progress on lowering prices in his first year.<\/p>\n<p> Views of Trump\u2019s job performance overall are more negative than positive, the survey found. <strong>About 4 in 10 US adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and more than half disapprove<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street is set to join the global sell-off when trading begins in around two hours.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hopes that this week\u2019s reciprocal tariffs would not be as harsh as feared were dashed over the weekend after US President Trump doubled down on his pursuit of using import levies to \u2018make America great again\u2019. With just a couple of days to go until the White House outlines the details of the reciprocal tariffs \u2013 the broadest set of restrictions yet to be unveiled by the Trump administration \u2013 there is a growing sense of panic in the markets about the scale and implications of the April 2 announcement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/31\/donald-trump-third-term-putin-russia-iran-tariffs-us-politics-live-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President tells NBC \u2018there are methods\u2019 in securing a third term despite constitutional barriers Immigration remains a strength for Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. 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