WNU Editor: Steve Hilton makes a good case in the above video. But Trump's appeal to me is what he was doing to the economy before the pandemic .... Before The Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Income Growth Soared And Poverty Fell To The Lowest Rate Since 1959, and the fact that he is the first President since the 1970s who did not get the U.S. involved in a new war.