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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    He’s been “fuming”, “exploding”, “blasting”, and “slamming” for several years now. Fuck mainstream media

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    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

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      Oh it finally moved from 40% to 35%? Amazing. Probably exclusively due to gas prices.

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        Only things that affect them personally. Not even their kids, as evidenced by their antivaxxer indulgence. Just them.

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      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”.

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        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.

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      Yeah. Every other headline is about how Trump MELTED, or CRASHED OUT, or left SHITTING IN HIS DIAPERS.

      Wake me up when Trump is in jail or sleeping forever.

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      The one thing I like about the Daily Beast is that they always put his age in the title. I always read that as “here something else this old motherfucker did”

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    Rule proposal: no putting Trump’s age near the front of the headline unless it’s the headline for which we’re all waiting.

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      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.

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          The headlines we’re looking for are going to extrie-extrie news. TRUMP DEAD, US PRESIDENT DIES IN OFFICE, DING DONG DONALD IS GONE type shit.

          Also let’s be real memes are the real celebrity obituary of our time.

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            I could wake up in the middle of the desert with no electronics on me the day he dies and I’m sure I’d be able to hear the wind tell me “Trump is dead"It.'ll be that obvious.

            More likely, I’ll probably hear fireworks outside on a random day and be woken up by partying in the streets before checking my phone.

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        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.

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          Biden was too old, Trump was too old. The average age of the house was 65 at one point. The entire government is too fucking old to care about the future of the country.

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      I can guarantee you that he won’t, because as a narcissist, his brain is utterly incapable of even forming such a thought.

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      80+ million of them. It reminds me of the George Carlin quote: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

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      Many. I haven’t seen any signs of his support waning where I live. Same signs, flags, bumper stickers, etc. Even the Trump 2028 crap. And if you read the comments on my local newspaper’s website, you’ll hear plenty from them.

      His current obsession with the threat of “communism” really seems to be resonating with them.

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      That’s crazy talking! We have other solutions: banning polls, cheating polls, outright faking polls. There is no alternative here!

      Besides, at this stage, if he was to ask what he could do to make things right, he would get a range of answers from “resign” to “kill yourself in the most painful way you can”.

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      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.

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    Bullshit. He could care less. All it is is an indicator his misinformation etc is working just dandy.

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      Yeah, ‘tied with 2017’ and this is supposed to be news. The only news here is that 30% of the electorate remain idiots. I’m kind of dead curious to see what the world would have to look like for them to gain even the tiniest shred of awareness. Unfortunately, we might actually get the chance.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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!