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struggle4progress

(118,327 posts)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:36 PM Jan 2018

A bad role model

By Kenneth T. Walsh
Jan. 26, 2018, at 8:00 a.m.

... While 90 percent of voters say the president should be a good role model for kids, only 29 percent say he is while 67 percent say he is not.

Among those who say Trump is not a good role model are most Democrats, independents, men, women, the young and the old. The major exception: 72 percent of Republicans say Trump is a good role model ...

Sixty-three percent of Americans say Trump does not provide the nation with "moral leadership" and 33 percent say he does. But 80 percent of Republicans approve of his moral leadership ...

"Only 27 percent of American voters say they are proud to have Donald Trump as president, while 53 percent say they are embarrassed--a 2-1 negative" ...

https://www.usnews.com/news/ken-walshs-washington/articles/2018-01-26/poll-trump-a-bad-role-model

I think this dog will hunt

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A bad role model (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
Probably my most frequent comment about Trump Ohiogal Jan 2018 #1
I'm trying to think of any way in which he could be seen as a positive role model ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #2

ProudLib72

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2. I'm trying to think of any way in which he could be seen as a positive role model
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:53 PM
Jan 2018

Eat large quantities of unhealthy foods, don't exercise, screw everything that moves, bully everyone you meet, cheat at every opportunity, and lie about it all.

Only the severely deranged could find something good in all this mess.

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