Posted on 01/13/2017 2:16:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Most presidents — even those elected in polarized times or controversial circumstances — enjoy some sort of honeymoon period after they win an election. People tend to put their hopes and dreams into the idea of hope a new president represents, even if they did not vote for him. It's a reminder of our fundamental optimism as a people.
Donald Trump, as we are reminded every day, is not “most presidents.” And, according to new numbers from Gallup, he never had anything close to a honeymoon period.
Just 4 in 10 people polled by Gallup say they approve of the way Trump is handling his transition — a stand-in for presidential approval in this odd three-month interregnum. Those are the lowest marks ever measured by Gallup for an incoming president. They are also half — yes half — as high as the 83 percent of people who approved of how Barack Obama handled his own presidential transition in late 2008 and early 2009. And Trump's numbers even track well below those of George W. Bush, whose transition was cut short by an extended recount that left lots of the country unconvinced that he had actually won.
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Manipulated polls.
Chris is always right lol, he predicted Trump would so many times
lose
The Kenyanesian Usurper isn’t popular either, notwithstanding their fake popularity polls for him.
the dinosaur establishment is clinging on to anything and everything to protect their PERSONAL power.
Ryan today kowtowed to illegal alien “dreamers” which is just code for illegals to steal college positions for legal residents and citizens.
Ryan is subscribing to the gang of eight.
“No one that we know likes him.”
They also installed an AA AA eight years ago who left the entire democrap party a smoldering ruin from bottom to top. It wasn’t just their most recent appalling candidate that did it. They FINALLY overreached.
I hope.
I’d expande that to the MSM / democrap party / Hollyweird axis / education establishment. In short, the entire “ruling class.”
Considering the entire purpose of the political sections of this “newspaper” is to slander Trump and to try to depress his approval rating, why are they surprised? Or are they simply gloating that some gullible people may have bought the propaganda?
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