Wait, what? How did his approval rating shoot up to 34%? It was at 29% last time I checked... We need to get that percentage back down below 30!
I hope that when he dies, he will know he was unloved his whole life. Especially the last 10 of them.
I can guarantee you that he won't, because as a narcissist, his brain is utterly incapable of even forming such a thought.
The big question is how far will the non-senile members of his administration go to keep the midterms - and if the Democrats will actually impeach and remove if they do manage, in spite of themselves, to get the power to do so.
Bro they got a dead guy they’re pretending is alive, they’ll do anything.
Crazy that 34% still approve of him but I guess realistically it cant get that much lower considering 10% will always be contrarians and 20% is about amount of americans that actively want to destroy the American project. for context I'm not an american
Oh it finally moved from 40% to 35%? Amazing. Probably exclusively due to gas prices.
Only things that affect them personally. Not even their kids, as evidenced by their antivaxxer indulgence. Just them.
I'm guessing it's the cluster b folks
If you look back at Nixon's numbers, even as he resigned in total disgrace, it will tell you a lot. The teaching of that history might lead one to believe it would be at or near zero approval, but that's not the case.
I doubt that Americans are all that unique in this by the way. I bet every country has their base of anti-intellectuals who want to see others being hurt (esp. women, POC, gays) and to give the finger to people that know more than they do, have more education than they do, etc. - AKA, the group of people these dumbasses call "elites".
If you look back at Nixon’s numbers, even as he resigned in total disgrace, it will tell you a lot.
Everything Nixon did was weak sauce compared to Trump. I don't understand why Nixon was so vilified, his framework for healthcare was eventually adopted as Obamacare, he signed the SALT treaty with Russia, he opened up trade with China, he tailed off troops from Vietnam war supported by Kennedy and Johnson. He ended the draft (started by Johnson) , he started the EPA, he declared war on cancer, increased the NIH, increased CDC...no president increased this spending until Clinton.
Big fucking difference from Trump's accomplishments, which in his second term are still zero. Literally cannot list one positive action from Trump.
Rule proposal: no putting Trump's age near the front of the headline unless it's the headline for which we're all waiting.
I actually kind of like it. Nobody ever shut up about how old biden was even though his admin did all the work. Trump is a much worse -- sorry, I mean "hands on" leader, so his age is even more relevant. When he acts like the petulant baby he is journalists should absolutely remind everyone that he's a geriatric.
Could not agree more. I got so sick of the "biden so old" bullshit as if that was ever really a problem during his administration.
Then put it at the end, don't get my hopes up for just a moment only to crush them once again!
My god seeing that the us president is 80 makes me fucking sick. I hate it here.
That's the very least of my concerns. Dude could be 40 or 90 for all I care; the real problem is that he's an incompetent asshole with malignant narcissism, and always has been.
I'm sure there is a reason Bret Easton Ellis had his characters in American Psycho constantly referencing and idolizing Donvict.
He hadn't had a stroke so far, so the polls are still not bad enough.
Apart from that, how can a third of the country still not grasp what is happening?
That third of the country is what the Republicans rely on, they're their hardcore voting bloc. They will be for anything the Republicans do because "The Democrats are doing it but worse!" They believe that the reason Democrats don't get in trouble so often is they're better at hiding their horrendous acts instead of just not doing them. As well they're generational voters, have voted Republican since Lincoln and never will change.
A third of the country has been denied adequate education and services because the inequitable distribution of resources towards affluent urban versus poor rural areas.
Democrats have failed to significantly improve the material conditions in some of the poorest areas of the country, so a lot of rural voters feel betrayed and would rather go with the guy who is a outright greedy jerk, than the politician who talks out of the side of their mouth, while still obeying their corporate masters.
That's not entirely true though. Biden got through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that invested heavily in developing rural electric and internet. He also supported the USDA ReConnect Program, and several other initiatives. Many of these things that Democrats helped pushed through were celebrated as "wins" by Republican Representatives.
What were they expecting?
Edit". I will say that more investments should have been made in education, but I will always say that we don't invest enough in education.
Edit". I will say that more investments should have been made in education, but I will always say that we don't invest enough in education.
I can’t disagree with that.
And I also have to concede that a lot of rural voters have gotten entrenched into their ultra religious echo chambers, and anything that has to do with public education gets rejected as “woke agenda” to them. So they vote against their own interests.
The problem was created by lack of resources and now that the effects have firmly taken root, it’s hard to reverse course.
This is the real answer. Rural areas have been completely ignored other than subsidies for corporations and wealthy farmers. No funding for schools or hospitals or roads or infrastructure.
So they voted in a way that is counterproductive, that might make their lives worse. That seems silly until you remember their lives were already being made worse.
Apart from that, how can a third of the country still not grasp what is happening?
Denial and/or propaganda.
Due to the ongoing usa political powerbroker shenanigans, about 1/3 of the american population gave up on the american dream well before trump came on the scene. Once trump started spewing his sweet lies he had them hook, line and sinker. To reiterate, american greed and "business" caused all of this madness then trump came along and capitalized on it.
My grandma passed away when she was 82. She could still walk and made some sense sometimes. Usually she was in the present but you could easily catch her talking or interacting with things that had already happened. She was similarly but better at 80. Very grumpy like this guy. Get your popcorn ready, cuz the story is gonna get interesting for this guy.
My grandma was a real meanie until 80 when she got a small undetected stroke in her sleep and flipped her character to a loving old granny all of a sudden. So the popcorn could go to another direction too, which would be really something.
Like the InfoWars guy lol. It could happen!
I find it almost unbelievable that 30+% still support him !?
That’s bedrock cult. The Jesusiest lifetime my daddy was republicans.
Saying they disapprove will never happen. Privately, maybe on the john, say, they may momentarily think it before furtively begging Jebus for forgibness.
I came up with a 20-30% rule. Roughly each quarter of population is always divided into different political camps. It's not what I experimented and surveyed on but it's what I have always observed in terms of voting patterns since history, especially in Europe. The Nazis won only about a quarter of voting population but they had to form a coalition to form a government. Similarly, the various Spanish left wing parties also had to form a coalition with each other before the Spanish Civil War, until the losing right wingers staged a coup to take power sparking the civil war.
If we look at the voting pattern as well in the previous American presidential elections, only 60% of eligible voting population went to the polling booth. More than half of those who voted elected Trump while the other remaining elected Kamala. So, of those who voted, about 30-35% elected for either candidates. Those who did not vote comprise 40% and they did not do so for various reasons. It's safe to assume that of those 40%, half are either liberal/left or right/conservative who did not feel energised by either Kamala or Trump and would rather elect their own preferred candidate (Sanders, Jill Stein, Haley etc).
Those are just my guesstimate but it roughly correlates with voting patterns in various countries if ranked choice voting and proportional representation happens. Even though some countries with no ranked choise and proportional representation, about one quarter of people are of certain inclinations. So, it is unsurprising that 30% of Americans are fascists supporting Trump. Those adjacent or apologists of Trump may not be outright fascists, but are enablers or useful idiots.
And 30℅ were on the fence about putting an impeached rapist with a history of self enrichment and grifting into the highest office in the land. Apparently they were ok with it.
30% of the country are stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes where their main source of information is Fox News, talk radio, and online echo chambers full of people who do the same. Another 30% are also stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes but they’re not stuck in the same dis-information loop.
"Fuming" and "melts down". Yeah, I'm not reading that article..
thedailybeast - it's kinda in the name
Came here to say the same
I do like that they mention his advanced age in everything though
Every article be like “so and so is fuming! They had a melt down and slammed another person”.
In reality it be like, “I don’t like cauliflower.”
The exaggeration is getting out of control.
How can 1/3 of Americans think this child rapist is doing a good job?
He hates women, black people and minorities in general.
He's loud, crass, obnoxious.
He's tacky.
He's petty.
The US version of the return of the repressed
Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.
Propaganda works.
Still too high.
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