Trump -tariffs and shrinking GDP increase political shares

President Trump started 101 days ago after a campaign in which the voters bought his argument that he could skillfully manage the economy and that his political recipes could increase the growth and eliminate inflation.

The news on Wednesday that the nation's gross domestic product had joined together in the first three months of the year was a sharp political jerk and a flashing economic warning.

At the end of a quarter, in which the share prices decreased sharply, and the worst performance of Wall Street at the beginning of a new term of office by the President, since Gerald R. Ford tried to control the country of scandal and inflation 51 years ago. And it only added the widespread uncertainty among companies and consumers, which the rest of the year is all about, since Mr. Trump is pursuing a trade war that has already repulsed the chains of offers and increases prices and leads to a lack of components and products.

It is too early to predict where the American economy is on the way for the rest of the year, and Mr. Trump remains reserved that he will produce a flood of trade agreements that bring the production back to the USA and herald a new age of prosperity.

But the personalities of the first quarter focused on the political risks for him. For Mr. Trump, what is at stake is a question of fundamental competence on a topic that he has always defined himself.

If the report turns out to be an extended slowdown or recession, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The reviews of Mr. Biden's job permit have never recovered from this early debacle. Nothing that he later did – not the millions of jobs, not the great legislative victories, not the quick reaction to the invasion of Russia to Ukraine – could restore the meaning among the voters that he could be familiar with the fact that he did the job with the ability he assumed that he has brought.