So high inflation and higher unemployment is working but lowest unemployment ever, first time rise in real wage in almost a decade is not working?
Have you considered that you've been lied to by CNN? You say you went there 'to see what a shitshow the trump admin was' (to paraphrase), but it seems you just went searching for media that already fit your foregone conclusion.
Sure, I'm being lied to by everybody - literally all media is a lie to some degree. There is bias everywhere.
The system is working as designed. We are stuck in grid lock. Everything will resolve _somehow_ eventually... how it resolves doesn't matter to me honestly, I'm just a passenger on this ship.