{"id":6966,"date":"2026-02-10T21:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:59:01","slug":"us-president-talks-up-economy-amid-outrage-over-minnesota-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/10\/us-president-talks-up-economy-amid-outrage-over-minnesota-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"US president talks up economy amid outrage over Minnesota killings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump touted the strength of the U.S. economy at a rally in Iowa, calling his first year in office the \u201cgreatest\u201d start to a presidency and claiming booming markets, rising incomes and defeated inflation. Trump\u2019s speech came amid outrage over fatal shootings by U.S. agents in Minnesota, prompting him to pivot attention toward bread-and-butter issues. Despite his optimistic claims, polls show widespread public dissatisfaction with the economy. However, economists note that while GDP growth is strong at 4.3%, the benefits are increasingly skewed towards the wealthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 28, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2026\/1\/28\/trump-talks-up-strength-of-us-economy-in-advance-of-midterm-elections\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump touted the strength of the U.S. economy at a rally in Iowa, calling his first year in office the \u201cgreatest\u201d start to a presidency and claiming booming markets, rising incomes and defeated inflation. Trump\u2019s speech came amid outrage over fatal shootings by U.S. agents in Minnesota, prompting him to pivot attention toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}