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mia

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Mon Mar 12, 2018, 06:45 AM Mar 2018

Trump wins the unpopularity contest.

Trump Says His Approval Rate Is Near 50 Percent. It Is Not.

On Sunday, President Trump made some ludicrous comments on Twitter. In other news, the sun rose in the east.

Ranking the president’s Sunday tweets in terms of importance, his claim that the New York Times was lying about his efforts to hire a new lawyer to defend against Robert Mueller’s special investigation — which the paper vigorously denied — took the cake.

But in terms of sheer absurdity, it was a toss-up between Trump’s claim that Republicans are 5-0 in congressional races since he became president (which conveniently ignores a certain Alabama Senate race and a California congressional seat) and his contention that the lying media is ignoring how popular he actually is....

The president has been deeply unpopular for a long time. But Trump lies so much to inflate his wealth, importance, and popularity that it’s sometimes hard to remember just how disliked he really is.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-says-his-approval-rate-is-near-50-it-is-not.html
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Trump wins the unpopularity contest. (Original Post) mia Mar 2018 OP
no respect for Trump Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #1
Not so hard to remember how hated he is... N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2018 #2
He's scum videohead5 Mar 2018 #3
It's Amazingly Scary xeodtech Mar 2018 #4
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