President Trump is as popular as he's ever been right now

[William769]

(CNN)Here's an indisputable fact: President Donald Trump is as popular today as he has been since his first day in office.

In a new Gallup poll, 49% approve of the job Trump is doing as president while 45% disapprove, matching the highest his approval rating has ever been in Gallup surveys. A Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed Trump at 46% approval, again the best he has done in that poll in more than three years.

What accounts for Trump's rise? Simple: His response to the coronavirus crisis.

In the Gallup poll, 60% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing in handling the crisis while 38% disapprove of how he has done. Six in 10 independents approve of how Trump has done on the coronavirus as do more than 1 in 4 (27%) of Democrats. In the Monmouth poll, 50% say Trump has done a good job with coronavirus while 45% said he has done a bad job.

The heightened approval for how Trump has managed this crisis -- particularly among independents and even Democrats -- is what is pushing up his overall approval numbers, which have been largely stagnant for years.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/donald-trump-gallup-approval-polling/index.html

WTF? How can this be? His response has been terrible! He waited to long to act! He fucks it up every day and is still lying to us every day! Jesus Christ, he wants to open the economy back up in a couple of weeks! I just don't get it.

[Moostache]

1. Stop the ride...I need to throw up (n/t)

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Perspective

Silverspoon George was at 90% after 9/11. He managed that situation dreadfully and started a war with the wrong country. He was an incompetent buffoon with 90% approval.
Less than 50% in a crisis that pulls people into the same lane, is actually terrible.

[nevergiveup]

3. Americans almost always

rally behind a president during a national crisis. This is no exception but I will bet the ranch he will not even approach W's approval ratings after 9/11.

[msongs]

4. constantly being on TV makes it look like he is doing something - its marketing himself, what he

does best

[Sugar Smack]

5. It's a lie; part of the MAGA "disinformation campaign".

I'm TREMENDOUSLY skeptical.

[ck4829]

6. It's not that unbelievable, at least IMHO... there's talk of a stimulus going around

Say those words... "cash" or "stimulus", you instantly, but temporarily, have the ears of moderates, centrists, and the politically uninitiated.

Give it a few weeks and watch what happens when people don't get money.

[William769]

8. And people are attending massive funerals.

[LAS14]

7. Perspective - 49% for a president "at war" is abysmal.

" In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, for example, President George W. Bush's approval rating soared into the high 80s and low 90s." From the OP article.

[William769]

9. Bush was also reelected.

That's what's scaring the hell out of me.

[walkingman]

14. Exactly - I think this 2T$ just handed Trump re-election. He is using the COVID news conferences

as a campaign rally. I think we just handed Trump the keys to the kingdom. I hope I'm wrong but I think the GOP has won unless the House does some real soul searching.

[William769]

15. I'm having the same feeling

But I also have to have hope. It's all I have left.

[Turin_C3PO]

20. I think his approval

will go back down over the next few months. 49% isn’t that great anyway. If we can get him under 45% on Election Day, I don’t see how he wins. Biden will have a very broad and deep coalition going into November that will result, hopefully, in Trump’s utter defeat. At least that’s what I’m hoping will happen because the alternative is unthinkable.

[appalachiablue]

21. One-term presidents are rare; Hoover, Taft & Carter in 20th cent.

But it can and will happen again.

[William769]

22. FDR?

[appalachiablue]

23. Taft! is what I meant, oops

[William769]

24. No problem.

[appalachiablue]

25. Uber blunder, esp. here & cuz I admire him so much! Hope

things are OK in Fla., I have relatives in Brevard and Clay Cos. and long associations w the Sunshine State.

(My family is full of Williams, and Guillermos).

[William769]

27. I'm in Lee County though my heart is in Appalachia

I have been in self isolation since March 14th with the exception of voting on March 17th.

I have everything delivered to me. My only joy right now is walking my pet in the back yard.

Stay safe my friend.

[appalachiablue]

30. The SW is a pretty area; stay well & glad you have your pooch!

[MotorCityBeard]

29. Bush 1 was a one term president, also

n/t

[appalachiablue]

31. Yes indeed, I'm rushing around and didn't list all.

[Zambero]

32. And Gerald Ford was a .65 termer

[StevieM]

35. Also George HW Bush. And kind of Gerald Ford. (eom)

[COLGATE4]

10. It's simple. You can't fix stupid. nt

[GoCubsGo]

11. This, too, shall pass.

The shit hasn't hit the fan yet, unfortunately.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Cool your jets, OK? It's NOT what it seems.

ONE Gallup poll don't mean shit in the big picture. And it's questionable at best.

His approval numbers are not really going up. He's been polling below 50% for the longest time, and there's no real evidence that the numbers beyond his base have risen. Or ever will rise.

Real polling, IMO, won’t be seen for weeks. And believe me, when it happens, it ain’t gonna be pretty for him.

Making people bankrupt and helping cause the death of their loved ones ain't gonna play well even in the red states.

And there's every reason to believe that when COVID-19 peaks in the red states, like Florida and Arizona, they'll fare even worse because their state governments didn't do enough to prepare their populations.

Just my 2 cents.




#newrostrong

[William769]

16. Thank you for that shot of realism.

I happen to be in Florida. Our Governor is parroting Trump.

[pat_k]

13. "...still lying to us every day!" -- and the people are buying.

Tragically, even if DT admin's tremendous failures kill a supporter's nearest and dearest, they will not blame him.

They'll believe his admin did a great job. They'll believe that more of their relatives would be dead, but for the tremendous, stupendous, trump and the magic of "quick action" to ban travel from China to protect us from the Chinese virus. Of course, the ban was was doomed to failure because weeks of no testing, incompetence, and resistance had allowed the virus to circulate here, undetected (because no one was trying to detect) for weeks before the ban.

However many friends, family, and loved ones they lose, they will believe they would have lost many more if someone like evil Biden had been in charge. They'll believe it because DT and the entire Republican noise machine tells them so.

It is not just his supporters buying it.

There is too much vague reference to his "slow response" and "failures." We know what we are referring to when we talk about "slow response" and "failures" -- most other people don't. The people reporting know, but they forget to elaborate on those things. That can't compete with trump's daily lies about how he saved us all with his travel ban.

We need the media out there hammering on all the specific failures and how devastating they were -- particularly the unconscionable actions that led to losing a critical 7 weeks of testing and response time. The critical period in which we had a shot at actual containment. We need analysts directly pointing out WHY those earlier failures doomed the travel ban to failure, and how those failures guaranteed the magnitude of the crisis would rapidly spin out of control.

P.S. Think of this third definition of "tremendous" on dictionary.com every time you hear trump use the word:

dreadful or awful, as in character or effect; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.

[William769]

18. Thank you.

[ooky]

17. I don't believe it. nt

[GeorgeGist]

19. Dumbing down wasn't just a slogan?

[Brainfodder]

26. The author of that piece pulled INDISPUTABLE out of this arse?

What a ridiculous notion: FACT!

[Thomas Hurt]

28. For him to be doing poorly there would have to hundreds of thousands dead.

Most people are not twigging to the healthcare system getting overwhelmed, they are worried about dead people.

The whole ploy of the right has been that this is nothing because it is just the flu and will only kill a similar number.

They don't understand that what steps we have taken have mitigated deaths.

That is beside the point.

[lillypaddle]

33. "WTF"

just about covers it. I don't get it either.

My sister and I had a big blowup on the phone the other day. She started in about how trump got a late start because the dems were impeaching him and he couldn't do his job. She was screaming at me. So I screamed back, "If you still support this asshole you are a fucking moron," and hung up.

JFC What the hell is wrong with these people?????

[LizBeth]

34. Still only at 50% or under, while any time of crisis it shoots to almost 90% with Presidents

whether we like them or not. Bush with 911 went to 87% or so.

[StarryNite]

36. Although I believe it, I don't get it.

What is wrong with people?