Posted on 04/05/2025 8:00:09 AM PDT by Strict9
President Donald Trump is more popular now than before he sent the global markets into a frenzy by enacting sweeping new tariffs.
An exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners survey of over 1,000 registered voters conducted from March 31 to April 3 found that the Republican remains largely popular in the U.S.
The poll found that Trump's approval rating rose to 53 percent, a 4-point increase over last week when it was 49 percent.
Trump's rising approval rating is surprising given the flak the White House has received over the tariff order signed Wednesday.
It is up by 13 points since March 7 among those aged 18 to 29.
Trump also saw a six-point increase
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I’ve been preaching that since the 80s. It’s insane to directly fund a commie nation that, likely, will declare war on us some day. All so that stupid Americans can save a dime on Susie’s flip flops.
they spend every waking hour, using the trillions of dollars we’ve given them, using the tech they’ve been handed or have stolen from us, plotting how to fight us. we should have left them how we found them hundreds of years ago—- in the stone age
The Chinese people are deceived just like most Americans. My friend’s girlfriend is Chinese and he just returned from visiting her in Hong Kong. China is a police state but the people are conditioned so as to not understand that. My friend has tried to explain that to his girlfriend and how their extreme surveillance state is oppressive. SHE explains to him that “the government must watch the people closely so that we all do what is right.”
I wouldn’t call them subhuman, just ignorant. And Godless to a large degree.
Yes, I worked with a Chinese lady who was a very decent, intelligent person, funny too. During Covid, she listened to the broadcasts from the Mainland and told me that the U.S. soldiers brought Covid to Wuhan. They just follow blindly. At least with Europeans, if you get into an elevator with 10 people, five might be liberal and five might be conservative. But if you get into an elevator with 10 Chinese, 100% of them are going to follow the leader. Mindless to a fault. No self will. Only the good of the collective. I’m surprised they don’t vomit up honey like bees.
MSM circle jerkers can’t understand why doing what he promised makes Trump more popular.
I hate to break it to you, but that was OUR bioweapon and OUR carelessness that created that catastrophe.
Senator Rand Paul kept asking Fauci questions. But he kept refusing to answer questions about the root causes of covid-19.
oh, I know our fools had a hand in it but the chinese with their sloppy carelessness— the bat lady scientist used to go home with bat pee and blood in her clothes and shoes. That’s what chinese do— sloppy, quick, cheap— no thought - Thry just want to modernize overnight. That’s why we have a saying, if something is crap we say “it’ll fall apart faster than a Chinese motorcycle. “They just build crap their science is crap. Everything they do is crap all of their numbers that say their economy is great. That’s all crap. It’s all crap crap crap.
the current situation is unsustainable
it is an existential threat
to the Trump’s critics
what is your plan?
Isn't it the point of many on our side that we offshore because of over regulation in the US? That's exactly what led to this catastrophe.
We don’t trade with Iran, because they spend all of their time trying to think of ways to murder us. But for some weird reason, we trade with China and we give them the most favorite nation status. We took them from Stone Age primitive up to the 20th century. They spend their days trying to think of ways to murder us so I don’t understand what the difference is. I don’t understand why we throw trillions of dollars at them. If it were me, I would completely end all trade with them, and I would have absolutely no relations with someone with them whatsoever. No need to put tariffs on their goods if you’re not bringing in any goods or giving them any goods. And yes, I know the tariffs are on a friend and four alike, but I am primarily upset about China, oh yeah, because they murdered millions and millions of people just a few years ago. Japan might have a few percentage points of tariffs on our goods, but we can always work with Japan. You can’t work with the Chinese. Impossible.
Unfortunately I can’t speak my mind about Fauci and his satanic lot for fear the FbI guys would come after me. Suffice it to say he should “not be here.” The Chinese won’t stop with Covid. They feel no guilt as they are primarily godless. They will keep coming at us. Taiwan, Aitcraft carriers, hypersonic this and that. no reason to feed them with trillions of our dollars, just so we can buy cheap plastic crap.
rand paul,
what is your plan?
i agree
they fear the red pill
But they are not like us. They took those tools, played us for suckers, and bought off our elites to keep us clueless.
That experiment is over. Now we treat the world as it is: a collection of societies, most of which are either hopelessly naive about evil or evil themselves, with which we can trade when it is in our best interests, and from which we must protect ourselves, not only militarily but economically.
Tariffs are a good start. Producing necessities domestically, from bullets to technology to medicines, is the required next step, and the sooner the better, because our enemies, foreign and domestic, are not going to wait for us to get our act together before attempting to destroy us.
And we’re going to have to fire all those who have been suckering the country for the last six decades, and start from scratch with new leadership.
The patient can come through this better than ever, but the surgery is going to be painful.
Beautifully stated. Thank you
We haven’t bombed any country ever so that defense contractors could make more money. That’s a complete myth invented mostly by left-wing people.
We have gotten ourselves into unnecessary wars because of blunders by US Presidents and bad mistakes by our intelligence community. Kennedy’s massive blunders in Cuba, including a unimaginable decision to let our own invasion fail and including the almost catastrophic Cuban Missile Crisis, lead directly to the disastrous Vietnam War. The US looked so inept, weak, and feckless after Kennedy’s blunders in Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis, that we were having a tough time getting any countries to believe us when we offered to help them keep the Soviets out of their country. That’s a big reason why we went into Vietnam—to demonstrate that we still were a strong country willing to back up our words with military force. Unfortunately for us, the Vietnamese communists didn’t fight wars like Japan or North Korea and they were much tougher than we expected, so we couldn’t crush their army even in five years of heavy fighting.
The second Iraq war was a blunder caused by big mistakes in our intelligence community, which mistakenly concluded that Iraq had a active full-scale nuclear weapons program (which they did not have). But none of these mistaken wars had anything to do with enriching defense contractors. Defense contractors are in the business for the long haul and really aren’t concerned about gaining some business from any specific conflict in the world. I worked for a defense contractor for a few years, and it’s a low profit margin business that’s all about maintaining business with the US government for decades into the future.
I know where you’re going with that. We’ll have to agree to disagree for now, because there are far more important current issues we have to deal with.
I would buy that if we weren't making those errors so consistently. These policies go all the way back to instigating a coup in Iran in 1953 for the promise of cheaper oil. How did that work out for us?
The mainstream media is sad.
The coup in Iran worked out well for us until 1979. I don’t know to what extent cheap oil was a factor in that coup. We had a lot of our own cheap oil back in the 50s. But the Iranian revolution in 1979 looks like another blunder by a wishful-thinking democrat President, and possibly the the intelligence community again. President Carter made a huge blunder when he didn’t ask the Iranian military to stop the revolution and install a true democracy in Iran. Carter was a strange man in some ways and had this consistent dislike for actually using military force. Statements that he made about the Iranian revolution indicate that he had an overoptimistic view about what kind of leader Ayatollah Khomeni would be after the revolution. Maybe he got another bad intelligence analysis from our intelligence community. But he was way off about Khomeni and the mullahs, who turned into a ruthless group dictatorship shortly after the revolution.
But we’ve made a lot of good foreign policy decisions, like the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and providing strong support for the NATO alliance. The US did very well at foreign policy and national security policy in the 20th century, until Eisenhower left office. FDR and Truman had absolutely unshakeable strength during World War II. We’ve had inconsistent success since Eisenhower left office. Kennedy was a disaster at national security policy. Carter was inept and allowed the Iranian revolution to happen. Reagan was outstanding, while Clinton and the Bushes were somewhere in the middle, and results of Trump’s policies are still in the future.
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