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Lets hope he is Humpty Dumpy.
Trump Got No Bump From Mueller. He Should Worry.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-01/mueller-cleared-trump-but-his-approval-ratings-haven-t-changed
Good news on the presidents biggest scandal hasnt improved his ratings.
By Jonathan Bernstein
April 1, 2019, 6:13 AM CDT
In terms of substance, the conclusion of special counsel Robert Muellers investigation was good news for Donald Trump. Not as good as Trump claimed. Not, perhaps, as good as Attorney General William Barr suggested in his summary of the case. Overall, though, the story of Muellers probe surely looks better for Trump now than it did 10 days ago.
But the politics? There the news is all bad for Trump. A week after Barrs summary and after some pretty successful spin from the Trump team that produced a lot of favorable coverage theres been no reaction at all from the electorate.
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Heres why thats bad news for Trump. His approval rating is the second-worst of any president on record after 801 days in office, which is where Trump was on Sunday. Only Ronald Reagan, at 41.1 percent, was worse. Trump is dead last in disapproval rating. No other president was over 50 percent. Hes also last in net approval (that is, approval minus disapproval) at -10.7.
Trumps numbers have been unusually steady. His poor rating, and his low ranking among the 13 presidents of the polling era, isnt a temporary fluke caused by recent bad news. Its just where he always is. Hes been net negative since the earliest days of his presidency, and his disapproval has been over 50 percent for two years now. In fact, hes been last in disapproval for all but about a month of his presidency.
Things could change, of course..............................
So theres plenty of time for Trump to recover. ....................................................
The truth is, we dont know why Trump is so unpopular, especially at a moment of relative peace and prosperity for the U.S. It could be the various scandals. It could be his refusal to behave like a normal president. It could be that his divisive campaign permanently alienated a lot of people. It could also be the specific unpopular public-policy positions he holds, whether its the tax law, health care, immigration, his border wall or some combination.
But whatever the reason, its hard to believe that a president could be reelected when more than half the country thinks hes doing a bad job. ........................................................
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)American people are pretty smart. They see whats happening. As for popularity , people dont like him.
JDC
(10,145 posts)Make an effort: Maybe all the lies, he and his family's obvious grift, the childish and/or buffoonish behavior, he's dumb, he's lazy as hell, the way he treats people, his obvious love for foreign strong men, his racism, his lack of giving no shits about anything but himself, the constant Fuck You attitide he and his admin have; Jesus H, ad infinitum.
Demovictory9
(32,493 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Trump's ratings were near disastrous during the 2016 election, yet, way too many people, more than we could collectively imagine, shucked off their disgust and voted for him.
It may be a reluctance to tell a pollster the truth, or inaccurate polling that does not properly reflect the margin of error, but no Trump bump is probably meaningless. Or, it may mean that our message of "Release the full report" has caused those who might give Trump a pass are waiting to see what the complete document says.
PSPS
(13,635 posts)jcgoldie
(11,657 posts)How dense do you have to be to not know why Trump is unpopular FFS?
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)gtar100
(4,192 posts)Inquiring minds would like to know.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)*Outside of the investigators themselves, obviously.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)No? Oh, then why'd you write an article when the first four words are utterly baseless? The world has zero substance, all we have is Barr's I-wrote-an-essay-about-my-desire-to-whitewash-the-Mueller-investigation-and-was-subsequently-hired-to-do-exactly-that-holy-fuck-are-any-of-you-"journalists"-paying-attention-don't-call-it-a-summary-even-though-I-literally-called-it-a-summary-in-my-letter-chastising-the-media-for-calling-it-a-summary summary.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Made up their minds as to what Trump did, regardless of what Mueller found. Dems know hes guilty and Mueller just couldnt prove it. Republicans know there was nothing to find in the first place. Is anyone really all that surprised we ended up where we are?