Economy
Trump at 34% and an 800-Point Dow Drop, Read in Japan as a Semiconductor Warning
A CNN poll put Trump's approval at 34%, with about half of Americans strongly disapproving, on the same day the Dow fell more than 800 points at one stage and the semiconductor index dropped sharply. Japanese threads treated the two as a single story, but the centre of gravity was not American politics — it was whether the semiconductor and AI trade had finally topped out. Opinion split on whether 34% was humiliatingly low or surprisingly durable.