This brutal new poll shows that fewer and fewer people believe Trump's lies - By Greg Sargent

[DonViejo]

The 100-day mark of the Trump presidency is approaching, and his aides are worried that the media narrative will depict his historically awful lack of accomplishments with highly unflattering levels of accuracy. But don’t tell that to President Trump. He knows the real problem is that the news media won’t acknowledge how terrific the start to his presidency has actually been in comparison with his loser predecessors:

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A new Gallup poll out this morning, however, strongly suggests that an increasing number of Americans just don’t believe Trump’s spin about his presidency anymore. It finds that only 45 percent of Americans think Trump keeps his promises, down from 62 percent in February, an astonishing slide of 17 points:



Note that the drop has been 11 points among Republicans and 9 points among conservatives. Meanwhile, among Americans overall, there has been a 7-point drop in those who think Trump can bring about the change this country needs, from 53 percent to 46 percent, and a 6-point drop in those who think that Trump is honest and trustworthy, from 42 percent to 36 percent.

Trump’s failure to fulfill his promises is worrying to Republicans, too. The Post reports that Republicans, eyeing the 2018 elections, are fretting that Trump has achieved “no major legislative victory,” which cuts against his promise to execute “beautiful” deals in Washington. As GOP pollster Frank Luntz puts it, Trump and Republicans must post “a record of accomplishment,” because “if you don’t, no rhetoric will fix it.” Meanwhile, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) commits full-blown heresy, warning: “We can’t blame this on Barack Obama. We have to look in the mirror.” (Can we have that in writing, Tom?)

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[LOL Lib]

1. This poll is proof that males are slow to learn.

Edit to clarify: "Republican males" are slow on the uptake.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

2. Dems will take back the country from the

criminal party. People are rightly enraged. Keep the fire going, all!

No more dark money, no more citizens united, no more stonewalling that Obama had to deal with, and the sooner the better. There is now and will be lots of repairs to do that the treason party has rammed through. They're ramming because even they know the Trump train is gone off the rails.

[Blue_Tires]

3. That doesn't help... None of that bullshit should have been credible to begin with...

[Hortensis]

4. IF the poll measured TRUE belief, rather than partisan

loyalty, what would the real numbers be?

A lot of Republicans aren't too stupid to know full well that their strength comes from standing strong together, just too dishonest to recognize and admit to themselves that they've been in a moral death spiral for decades now.