Poll: Trump's approval rating rebounds amid North Korea tensions
Source: MSN/The Hill
President Trump's approval rating has rebounded after a week of rising tensions with North Korea, according to a Rasmussen poll released Friday afternoon.
Trump's approval rating in the right-leaning poll now stands at 45 percent, a six-point jump from a 39 percent approval rating in the same poll last week. The new rating marks Trump's highest approval the poll has recorded since July 12.
Trump has spent the week escalating tensions with North Korea after the nation announced it was moving forward with developing plans to attack the island territory of Guam. On Friday morning, Trump tweeted that U.S. forces in the region were "locked and loaded."
"Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely," Trump wrote on Twitter Friday. "Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!"
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-trumps-approval-rating-rebounds-amid-north-korea-tensions/ar-AApTKuN?li=BBnb7Kz
Remember how Trump's poll numbers went up when he dropped that huge bomb in Afghanistan? His numbers would go through the roof if he started a nuclear war.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It's why it will always be just as futile to take a "we can do it BETTER" stance on any Rethug-initiated war, just as it was futile to do that on Iraq or on Reagan's Central America policies.
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)Dems will run on ending or avoiding war, not "doing war better."
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Trump has had "success" disregarding well-established norms, so why not a casual approach to the use of nuclear weapons? It just seems to cause his right wing zealots love him even more.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html
Donald Trump Trump reportedly asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC
10:06 AM ET Wed, 3 Aug 2016 | 01:20
Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.
"Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.
Scarborough made the Trump comments 52 seconds into an interview with former Director of Central Intelligence and ex-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden.
Scarborough then asked a hypothetical question to Hayden about how quickly nuclear weapons could be deployed if a president were to give approval.
Hugin
(33,207 posts)That's why he did it.
I do notice this is a Rassie Poll. I'll wait until whatever the Jaundiced Hippo was diverting us from to hit the wires before I get all colicky about it.
kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Slimy sociopath knows that war guarantees presidential popularity, or at least a rise in it.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)Only because sufficient 'Muricans are brain-dead enough to want to be saved from the scary world out there by the orange shitgibbon they think of as their all-knowing father.
Or something like that.
If America as a whole had any common sense, at this time--when he's clearly ginning up tensions to distract from Russiagate and his own incompetence, not because the U.S. faces any more legitimate threat than under President Obama--his ratings would be plummeting right now.
And one other thing: don't people see that as soon as the pukes get one of their stooges in the White House, the fear factor escalates and the war drums start? We've lived through enough puke admins to see the clear pattern by now...
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)We all knew Trump's saber rattling was for one purpose and one purpose only. He needed to get his moronic base "fired up" about something. It will always be his ace-in-the-hole, and should impeachment turn out to be an actual possibility, well...............
It's worked for every president who's ever used it, the "wag the dog" gambit. It will be short lived though, so either he's going to have to go "all in" with his plan to nuke North Korea, or he'll just forget the whole thing and move on to something else. That's always been his M.O. and I see no reason for changing up now.
We shall see.
global1
(25,272 posts)DEPLORABLE!!!!!!
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)J_William_Ryan
(1,757 posts)Trump will be tempted to do the same.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)Bengus81
(6,933 posts)He's desperate just like Bush and have NO problem throwing a War just for gain.
downeastdaniel
(497 posts)be over soon and tRUMP is just an ugly footnote that 22nd century historians ponder over...
truthisfreedom
(23,157 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)Now that his Nazi thugs have killed one and hospitalized twenty.