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Fuming Trump, 80, Melts Down Over Embarrassing Poll Numbers (www.thedailybeast.com)

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He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

He convinced the North Vietnamese to stay away from the Paris Peace Talks, so he could get elected (which LBJ called "treason"), then he allowed the war to go on for his entire term, so he could use it to get elected again - "Peace is at hand" and "Don't change horses mid-stream - as if the president who was waging war for political purposes was interested in pursuing peace.

It only ended because we lost the war, Saigon was overrun, and America had to run for it, our worst, most humiliating military loss in history. Nixon never really wanted Peace.

58,000 young American soldiers died, most of them under Nixon's watch, many of them drafted by the government out of their childhood bedrooms, to die in a tiny country halfway around the world, that posed no threat to America in any way, just so Nixon could get reelected. And do Watergate.

Any wonder why people wanted him gone?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 minutes ago

58,000 young American soldiers died, most of them under Nixon’s watch, many of them drafted by the government out of their childhood bedrooms

The Vietnam war was started by John F. Kennedy and escalated through a huge number of corrupt military contracts benefitting Johnson's cronies (search Brown and Root). The 58,000 who died were mostly drafted by Johnson, who initiated the draft. This was the Democrat's war. But Lyndon Johnson somehow gets written as the hero and Nixon the villain. It was a 20 year war, and Nixon was only president for 5 years and he had a lot of shit to clean up, mostly tied to MIC corruption in Vietnam which killed a lot of American kids. Nixon ended the draft, he ended the war, not sure where your history is coming from, but Lemmy Democrats can be as bad as MAGA.

In the big picture 1950-2026, Nixon was not as bad a President as people want to believe.

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