Donald Trump poised in Trump Tower atrium in New York. Ted Thai/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock

It was some feat for Donald Trump, a billionaire with his own airliner who lived in an eponymous skyscraper in liberal New York and wintered in a Florida palace, to brand himself as the conservative champion of working Americans.

But his political alchemy on the economy is dissolving.

Trump’s presidency is taking a wobble as he flaunts his sun king’s life of luxury and obsesses over building, literally, his personal legacy with vanity projects like a White House ballroom over his campaign vow to make America affordable again.

Trump is coming across as increasingly oblivious to a wave of economic insecurity sweeping the nation, which is hitting many of the voters he won over in

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