What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Valmy]

You know how it is. Your daughter is about to leave for the airport in 30 minutes and you just want to show her your automatic pistol. Like you do.

In a statement issued by his solicitors, Kris Harrison said he "fully accepted" the consequences of his actions.

Yeah...the zero consequences must be pretty difficult to bear.

[Syt]

It just goes to show that the MAGAsphere is right. A young blonde white woman gets killed by an immigrant, and no protests, etc.

[mongers]

You know how it is. Your daughter is about to leave for the airport in 30 minutes and you just want to show her your automatic pistol. Like you do.

In a statement issued by his solicitors, Kris Harrison said he "fully accepted" the consequences of his actions.

Yeah...the zero consequences must be pretty difficult to bear.

 

I'm hoping the reporting I've read about the 'case'/murder/'tragic accident' is poor, because otherwise according to the police, he's going to get off scot-free?

[garbon]

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday.

The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it "reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership."

"Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people's lives," a spokesperson for the agency said. "That work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business Review, the World Poll, and our portfolio of U.S. and global research."

The Gallup Presidential Approval Rating has for decades been the among the top barometers cited by media outlets measuring public opinion of the president's performance.

President Trump has seen his rating by the agency slip in recent months, peaking at 47 percent last February and dipping to less than 37 percent in its last poll taken in December.

"This change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup's public work with its mission," a spokesperson for Gallup said. "We look forward to continuing to offer independent research that adheres to the highest standards of social science."

When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, "this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup's research goals and priorities."

Trump's Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s.

Former President Truman earned an average approval rating of 45 percent during his time in office from April 1945 to January 1953; former President Biden earned an average approval rating of 42 percent from January 2021 to January 2025.

Former President Kennedy experienced some of the highest average ratings Gallup has ever recorded, 71 percent from January 1961 to November 1963, and former President Eisenhower topped out at an average of 61 percent from January 1953 to January 1961.

Over the years, Gallup's polling business has grown to include surveys outside of partisan politics, asking about subjects such as employee workplace engagement, public views on the spread of AI and other global indicators of public trust and happiness with major institutions.

[Valmy]

When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, "this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup's research goals and priorities."

Whatever those might be.

[HVC]

It boggles my mind that he's still at 37

[Valmy]

It boggles my mind that he's still at 37

In MAGA world everything he does and says is gold and anything bad about him they hear they will not believe. Just the way it is.

[Jacob]

Another step in the Orbanist / Putinist playbook - limit and control information that could be used to question the leader's popularity.

[HVC]

It boggles my mind that he's still at 37

In MAGA world everything he does and says is gold and anything bad about him they hear they will not believe. Just the way it is.

I mean I have a low opinion of the electorate in general, but I naively thought the same block of voter who for years (even before Trumps election) were raving about pedophile rings would turn on the pedophile in chief, but I guess not.

[Solmyr]

It's only pedophile rings when the Democrats do it, otherwise it's cool guys having sex with women who are on the younger side.

[Valmy]

It boggles my mind that he's still at 37

In MAGA world everything he does and says is gold and anything bad about him they hear they will not believe. Just the way it is.

I mean I have a low opinion of the electorate in general, but I naively thought the same block of voter who for years (even before Trumps election) were raving about pedophile rings would turn on the pedophile in chief, but I guess not.

You would think Qanon would be doing a victory lap right now. Their conspiracy theory turned out to be kinda true. But nope.

Granted some will slowly peel away. His approval among Republicans has sunk to 82% in the last poll so it isn't like it is an entirely inpenetrable bubble.

[Valmy]

It's only pedophile rings when the Democrats do it, otherwise it's cool guys having sex with women who are on the younger side.

Sometimes I feel the urge to remind the Joe Rogans of the world, and the other Epstein apologists, that sex trafficking adults is also illegal.

[Valmy]

Another step in the Orbanist / Putinist playbook - limit and control information that could be used to question the leader's popularity.

That have a load of thought stopping cliches. Fake news and so forth. Right out of a cult.

And fuck we love cults in the US. We have tons and are constantly making more. I don't know what that says about the supposed land of liberty and rugged individualism.

[Tonitrus]

And there are also plenty on the right, especially the religious right who just look at the Don as their "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" guy/fixer.  So as long as he packs the Supreme Court and panders to them, they're ok with the hypocrisy. 

In the run up to the 2024 election, I saw plenty of anecdotal interviews in the nature of "yeah, he's gross, but he is pushing a conservative agenda, so I'll live with it".

[Valmy]

And there are also plenty on the right, especially the religious right who just look at the Don as their "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" guy/fixer.  So as long as he packs the Supreme Court and panders to them, they're ok with the hypocrisy.

In the run up to the 2024 election, I saw plenty of anecdotal interviews in the nature of "yeah, he's gross, but he is pushing a conservative agenda, so I'll live with it".

Yeah...only is he? I think I have said this before but there were loads of things I used to think I could depend on Conservatives to value. Federalism for example. But Trump is setting all of that on fire.

But I guess if your entire set of values is "fuck those guys" then Trump is indeed your president. Nobody does "fuck those guys" like he does.