President Donald Trump hasn't even been in office for two months, but some say that's been enough to send consumer sentiment sliding in the United States. The University of Michigan's monthly Surveys of Consumers found that consumer sentiment plunged by more than 10 percent in March from the previous month and that consumer expectations of future

U.S. consumer sentiment plunged to a nearly 2-1/2-year low in March and inflation expectations soared amid worries that President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, which have ignited a trade war, would boost prices and undercut the economy.