Trump Got No Bump From Mueller. He Should Worry.

[riversedge]

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 president’s biggest scandal hasn’t improved his ratings.
By Jonathan Bernstein


April 1, 2019, 6:13 AM CDT


In terms of substance, the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 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 Mueller’s 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 Barr’s summary – and after some pretty successful spin from the Trump team that produced a lot of favorable coverage – there’s been no reaction at all from the electorate.
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Here’s why that’s 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. He’s also last in net approval (that is, approval minus disapproval) at -10.7.

Trump’s numbers have been unusually steady. His poor rating, and his low ranking among the 13 presidents of the polling era, isn’t a temporary fluke caused by recent bad news. It’s just where he always is. He’s been net negative since the earliest days of his presidency, and his disapproval has been over 50 percent for two years now. In fact, he’s been last in disapproval for all but about a month of his presidency.


Things could change, of course..............................

So there’s plenty of time for Trump to recover. ....................................................



The truth is, we don’t 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 it’s the tax law, health care, immigration, his border wall or some combination.

But whatever the reason, it’s hard to believe that a president could be reelected when more than half the country thinks he’s doing a bad job. ........................................................

[notdarkyet]

1. Why is trump unpopular?because he is mean and nasty, belittles and call people names

American people are pretty smart. They see whats happening. As for popularity , people don’t like him.

[JDC]

2. "The truth is, we don't know why Trump is so unpopular"

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]

10. cuz he is an a-hole

[customerserviceguy]

3. It really doesn't matter what his approval rate is any time before Election Day

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]

4. LOL. "we don't know why Trump is so unpopular" says Jonathan Bernstein, "jenius"

[jcgoldie]

8. No kidding that line stood out to me as well

How dense do you have to be to not know why Trump is unpopular FFS?

[uponit7771]

5. Hmmmm, meaning if the Mueller report is bad it should be a decline.

[gtar100]

6. What conclusion of Mueller's did this author read?

Inquiring minds would like to know.

[DRoseDARs]

9. Shit smears on his toilet paper. No one has read the report* that Barr isn't plotting coverup with.

*Outside of the investigators themselves, obviously.

[DRoseDARs]

7. "In terms of substance..." Imma stop you there, John. You've read the unredacted report, I take it?

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]

11. It sounds like most people paying attention to this already

Made up their minds as to what Trump did, regardless of what Mueller found. Dems “know” he’s guilty and Mueller just couldn’t 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?

[triron]

12. You mean "from Barr" NOT Mueller!