Posted on 08/30/2025 4:55:46 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Like all good flimfam artists, President Trump is a master of misdirection.
As Americans grow increasingly skeptical of his inflationary tariffs, deficit-swelling tax cuts and senseless push to gut federal agencies and research, he floods the zone with a firehose of falsehoods to shift media and public attention elsewhere.
Take his grandstanding plan to dispatch U.S. troops to Chicago and other cities, as he’s already done to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. It’s a classic “wag the dog” ploy with a Trumpian twist: Instead of fabricating a foreign military crisis to divert voters from their domestic woes, he’s invading America’s blue metros.
Crime and public disorder, including sprawling homeless encampments, are serious problems. But a rational president would partner with local leaders to alleviate them instead of putting our cities under military occupation.
Trump’s grotesquely exaggerated claims of urban anarchy discredit America in the world’s eyes so he can score political points at home. Hard-core Republicans eat it up, but the rest of the country seems unswayed by the president’s gaslighting.
The president’s job approval rating has slipped to 38 percent in the Pew Center’s latest poll. Voters also give Trump’s main policy initiatives a thumbs down.
They strongly disapprove (61-38) of his tariffs, the retro centerpiece of Trumponomics. A solid majority of 55 percent say they lack confidence in Trump’s ability to make good decisions on economic policy.
Voters evidently aren’t big fans of DOGE either; nearly two-to-one, they say Trump is making the federal government work worse rather than better. And they disapprove of Trump’s budget-busting mega-bill by a 10-point margin (42-32).
Trump is losing ground among independents, soft-core Republicans, young voters and people who didn’t vote in 2024.
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This kind of crap is the best they can do.
If that guy is having a hissie, all I can say, Mr. President is...
Well done, sir!!!
So, Trump is unpopular and slipping, eh? First I have heard of it!
These people really do live in an alternate reality.
Another friggin’ “progressive” with a big mouth and a whole lot of hate for America.
But they have no solutions to offer for economy, crime, etc. Just orange man bad.
And they need to come back down to planet earth sooner or later.
As if we didn’t already have a surplus of those.
That’s how pathetic the left is.
Who is Will Marshall? Name sounds familiar.
Yup- from the same LW rag that told us biden’s economy was steam rolling!!!
Don’t forget! “Here’s why”!!! Hahahahaha. The Hill is a top 10 d-bag publication
It’s all they have. They are as lame as they have ever been. They have no plan other than “orange man bad”
Will Will will his thoughts into reality?
God’s will will win out; Will’s will won’t
Source, The Hill. ‘Nuff said.
Jessica Tarlov on The Five clings to polls like a life raft as well. I don’t believe the polls. Trump is doing great.
What utter bullship.
They do not know when to quit. Thats a good thing.
We win big in the mid terms.
The Hill: If you are a registered democrat and vote democrat and hate Trump, then vote in our Poll...If not, don’t bother....
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