CNN halted for breaking news in devastating blow for Donald Trump

CNN's usual programming was interrupted for breaking news as the news programme was on the ground in Tennessee talking to unimpressed Conservative voters. During the live report, the residents expressed their disappointment in President Donald Trump, as inflation has continued to climb as a result of his sweeping tariffs, which he once said would create jobs in the US and boost the American economy. During the CNN broadcast, one Morristown local, Linda Bradley, complained: "Sometimes things are four times what they were a year ago, it's awful."

A second was frustrated by the steep rises and remarked: "Everything just keeps going up." Another resident, Tony Mayes, told the reporter: "I used to spend $40 a week and now it's $140, I just don't think it's going to go down for a long time." Issuing a worrying verdict, he added: "They're not concerned with people like us." Linda added: "They said these tariffs that they've put on would bring prices down, they're not."

She continued: "It's going to charge more to make up for them having to pay to bring it in, and I'll just say everything is going downhill."

This is a major blow for Trump, who is just seven months into his second presidency and promised to use tariffs to achieve a wide range of goals during his election campaigns.

These goals included preventing war, reducing trade deficits, improving border security, as well as subsidising childcare.

However, according to USNews, approval of Trump's economic leadership hit 56% in early 2020 during his first term, but it has since dramatically dropped, as the figure was 38% in July of this year, two months after the leader announced the tariffs.

At his April tariffs announcement, Trump added, "Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."

However, since then, manufacturers have reportedly cut 42,000 jobs, and builders have downsized by 8,000.

Despite this, the President said: "Now our inflation is down to a perfect number, a beautiful number. Hardly any at all.

"Yet our country is taking in tens of billions, trillions of dollars actually in tariffs paid by other countries who frankly were taking advantage of us for many years," Trump added during a press conference last month.

He added: "We've ended [Joe] Biden's inflation nightmare and came in below expectations again this month, we set records, gasoline prices are down low and really dramatically and energy prices have been going down."