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Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
The New Republic ^ | 11/24/25 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 11/24/2025 3:08:39 PM PST by DallasBiff

As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.

Suddenly, media outlets seem to have figured out that President Donald Trump is really, really unpopular. There’s been a palpable shift in the discourse: The New York Times reports that Republicans are quietly looking beyond Trump, suggesting he’s losing his grip on the party. Axios claims that it’s “red alert” time for Trump and the GOP. Politico describes how Republicans are getting routed in school board races, a sign that MAGA culture-warring has lost its sway and is even backfiring. And one CNN analyst offers a brutal reading of recent approval numbers on Trump, pronouncing them “atrocious.” We talked to Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, who regularly dissects MAGA and media foibles alike. We discuss why the political media smells blood, how deepening splits in MAGA show Trump’s weakness, what it means that the Trump-MAGA culture war and immigration raids are badly alienating ordinary voters, and how Trump is in a potentially irreversible tailspin. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.

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To: DallasBiff

Trump breaks his opponents year after year.


41 posted on 11/24/2025 3:57:03 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DoodleBob
[Gary Sargent] was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo...

"Prominent" to the point that WAPO laid him off.

42 posted on 11/24/2025 3:59:03 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: DallasBiff

Up until the media has been so nice and supportive of the president. When he’s lost MSNBC ...


43 posted on 11/24/2025 4:00:16 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: DallasBiff

Baghdad Bob did it better.


44 posted on 11/24/2025 4:05:19 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: sten

They are fighting back, and sadly enough their lies will sway some that may have tried the MAGA movement, but like some here, they expect miracles to happen overnight. But come midterms, they will see successes by the time they roll around, which hopefully will pull them bacl.


45 posted on 11/24/2025 4:06:48 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: DallasBiff

Mid term preparation, prediction and farts.


46 posted on 11/24/2025 4:07:40 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar
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To: BamaBelle

I completely agree with your perception. I wish I could find a way to categorize their lies and list them one by one with a strict timeline and broadcast it every minute....
Everyday...swallwell, kelly, raskin, slotkin, pritzker, pelosi,,warren, shapiro,mandami, bragg, Newsom, bonta, carville, crockett, waters, Spanberger, Johnson, et al, ad nauseum lie. They are trying to create a fake groundswell narrative just by repeating a lie... ...Hell is perfect for liars...they really will deserve to be there.

Vengeance is mine saith the Lord. May it come swiftly, justly, and eternally.


47 posted on 11/24/2025 4:08:43 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: DallasBiff

This must be the new talking point this week. They all seem to be beating the same stupid drum. Small minds parrot alike...


48 posted on 11/24/2025 4:18:19 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: DallasBiff

Ja! Der Trump bin ein poppy head!


49 posted on 11/24/2025 4:22:02 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: DallasBiff

Grade “AAAAAAA” Bullshit


50 posted on 11/24/2025 4:22:15 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: DallasBiff

More juvenile wish think from the children.


51 posted on 11/24/2025 4:27:17 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: DallasBiff

Finally?


52 posted on 11/24/2025 4:31:40 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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Trump is basically history even though he is still making
history. Some one in the GOP has to take the lead towards
the next presidential election on November 7, 2028. If not
then welcome all the illegals that are coming in from around
the globe.

CHANGE IS ENEVITABLE. Just look at this land called North
America and the change that has been made to it since a boat
carrying Columbus arrived in 1492.

The new comers began to arrive the Natives were rounded up and
put on reservations. They began to expand and take control of this
land They went to Africa and brought in their natives to be workers
A CIVIL WAR was fought in the 1860s to free the slaves. Slowly
others included females began to get the vote. Today OUTER SPACE
is being surveyed and who will rule and how is still to be decided.
Nutrition will be a pill or needle injection. And what will be used
for daily travel is anyone's guess.

53 posted on 11/24/2025 4:35:54 PM PST by deport
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To: DallasBiff

LOL- Greg Sargent- this pu&&y used to write for the WaComPost and i would call him out on his lies and hypocrisy (this was almost 20 years ago)....he got so twisted he would return my emails...


54 posted on 11/24/2025 4:37:50 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: DallasBiff

The media is FINALLY saying so?

Haven’t they always said so?


55 posted on 11/24/2025 4:43:01 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: stanne

He had a little dip the last 2 mounths. He’s starting to come back up.


56 posted on 11/24/2025 4:49:34 PM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WwILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: cowboyusa

Oh stop

He’s the president. The campaign is over


57 posted on 11/24/2025 4:50:28 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

No, i’m just saying poll wise. We need polls that calculate his approval in Blue vs. Magenta States. In the MagentacStayes he is above Water. Those are the States that matter.


58 posted on 11/24/2025 4:52:31 PM PST by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WwILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m not commenting on any posters in particular, but FR has recently taken on the appearance of being the target of spirit sucking negative propaganda - in an organized fashion.

The opposition would have voted for Biden even if he were in a coma, and did the same for Kamala. Now is not the time for us to go weak-kneed.


59 posted on 11/24/2025 5:04:54 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: DallasBiff

I can’t believe such idiots make more money than most of us.


60 posted on 11/24/2025 5:06:17 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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