The Donald Trump Score Card

Thimply dithpicable!

 

Well ol' Donny John started a war in the middle of his impeachment alright.

Iran launches missiles at US military facilities in Iraq: US official

 

Looks like Trump has stood on the hornets nest with Iran attacking US forces in Iraq.

 

I suppose it's a matter of opinion. In the areas of healthcare, education, science and social welfare we fail. In all of these we are not where were in the "great again" days. I suspect when people say that they mean the dad works while mom takes care of the kids. Somehow his job pays well even without college and the world is jealous of America. The exceponlism seems to be a crucial part of this. It's not enough for us to make our own good life others must crave this life.

Europeans do enjoy our music and movies but they do not envy anything else about us. In my opinion life is not good here. We are a corporation before a country. We are unable to separate morals from money.

 

Yeah... Nobody saw this coming.

 

Putin lovers need to realize that true patriotism isn't a game of follow the leader. I care about what is happening to my home turf--erosion of institutions and the rule of law, and a lurch toward a cult of personality around the Great Orange One. The U.S. was sucked into a war in Iraq nearly two decades ago on the basis of false info, and we're still there. Those who remember the Gulf of Tonkin resolution know how easy it is to sucker knee jerk "patriots" like you into pointless conflicts. Trump is in way over his head with Iran and North Korea--flying by the seat of his pants with the help of a crew of temps and sycophants. A true patriot would want to ditch him at the nearest exit.

 

Trump Is The Most Unpopular President Since Ford To Run For Reelection

Now that the 2020 election has gone from “next year” to “this year,” it’s worth taking a step back and asking a question that we first posed in early 2017: How popular is Donald Trump? After all, a president’s job approval rating can be predictive of his reelection chances, especially as November draws closer.

On Jan. 1, 42.6 percent of Americans approved of President Trump’s job performance, according to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker (52.9 percent disapproved). That’s a pretty typical number for Trump (although it’s worth noting that, since Jan. 1, the U.S. and Iran have taken actions that could shake Trump’s approval rating loose from that anchor), but ominously for the president, that’s the second-lowest FiveThirtyEight average approval rating of any recentSince Harry S. Truman — i.e., all the presidents in the “polling era,” those for whom we have scientific polls of their approval ratings.

">1 president on the first day of their reelection year. Only Gerald Ford (39.3 percent on Jan. 1, 1976) was less popular — and, of course, Ford lost that campaign to Jimmy Carter

However, working in Trump’s favor is the fact that past presidents’ approval ratings have tended to shift over the course of the year — and sometimes by Election Day bear very little resemblance to their Jan. 1 approval. Those shifts haven’t tended to be predictable, either: Five of the last 11 presidents running for reelection saw their approval ratings rise during the year, and six saw them decline. So Trump’s low approval ratings as of January aren’t necessarily a problem for him in November. (For example, depending on how it unfolds, a potential conflict with Iran could certainly affect them.)


This is a good news/bad news situation for Trump: The smart money is against his approval rating budging very much, simply because he’s had a remarkably steady approval rating. As my colleague Geoffrey Skelley wrote last year, it’s fluctuated about 9 points over the course of his presidency — much less than most previous presidents’ approval ratings have fluctuated. Part of this is because of the very polarized era we live in, in which most voters have already made up their minds about what they think about the occupant of the White House. Take Barack Obama, who had a similarly intractable approval rating over the course of his presidency. From Jan. 1 to Nov. 6, 2012 — the year of his reelection campaign — his numbers ticked up by only 3.8 points. What this means in practical terms is that it’s increasingly difficult for presidents to win over new supporters.

That puts Trump in an unenviable but ambiguous position for reelection. Since Dwight D. Eisenhower, presidents with a FiveThirtyEight average approval ratingObviously, this is retroactive; we weren’t modeling Lyndon B. Johnson’s approval rating in the back pages of the New York Herald Tribune in 1964.

">2 of 48.4 percent or higher on Election Day all won their reelection campaigns, and presidents with a FiveThirtyEight average approval rating of 43.6 percent or lower all lost. If, in 10 months, Trump’s approval rating is still in the same range it has occupied for the past two years (roughly, between 39 percent and 43 percent), he would obviously fit into the latter group. And that would not bode well for his chances of being reelected; he’d have to hope for a Harry S. Truman-caliber upset. (The owner of a 39.6 percent approval rating on Nov. 2, 1948, Truman was widely predicted to lose the election but ended up narrowly defeating Thomas “Your Future Is Still Ahead Of You” Dewey.)

On the other hand, even a modest, Obama-esque improvement would put Trump in the purgatory between the presidents who won and the presidents who lost — between 43.6 percent and 48.4 percent. So in the end, Trump’s current approval rating doesn’t sound a clear signal one way or the other on the question of his reelection — but it does maybe hint that he starts off the new year at a disadvantage.

 

It's fairly obvious most of you here didn't go to university, or the few that did, did something like art history

Not that it really means anything with opinions on why Soleimani got killed as an example.

WP is probably right, they have been after this guy for a decade, just so happens Trump was president at the time

A couple extra years of university aren't really going to give a doctor or lawyer a more correct opinion than an auto mechanic

 

you are showing your ignorance, and lack of education, again. Disagreeing with the direction that the government takes is one of the tenets of democracy. It has nothing to do with patriotism, or lack thereof.

 

It's called cognitive reasoning- google it.

 

More chest-thumping bravdo from the white gorilla. Wrong, as usual.

 

Those two symptoms of Trump's narcissistic personality disorder and his belief in conspiracy theories peddled by outlets like Breitbart are what caused his impeacment.

 

Why dont you tell us how Monets time in the military changed the way he dobbed blobs of paint on plain woven fabric using lighter colours

 

"The President has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team."


What remains of his team in DC after he fired those he didn't like and others quit in frustration.

Trump launched the strike on Syria from Mar-a-Lago while eating with the president of China.

He initiated his assassination of Iranian officials in Iraq while at Mar-a-Lago with his buddies and bragging to them that something big was going to happen.

Trump's idea of consulting with Congress is chatting with someone like Lindsey Graham while at one of his golf resorts.

 

Yes and now Trump can be determined as 'old', we all know what happens to 'old' golfers don't we ???

 

Did the Iranian missiles hit anything?

I think no

 

So they are still flying around somewhere? Obviously they must have hit something by now...

 

Much Of The World Doesn't Trust President Trump, Pew Survey Finds
Scott Neuman
January 8, 20209:00 AM ET

Much Of The World Doesn't Trust President Trump, Pew Survey Finds

excerpt:

"A clear majority of people living outside the U.S. do not trust President Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, with fewer than one-third expressing confidence in him — an opinion also reflected in attitudes toward America generally, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.

However, the metrics have improved somewhat for the president since a similar survey two years ago, increasing to 29% expressing confidence from 22%.

The survey published Wednesday was conducted in 33 countries from the spring to early autumn of last year, after relations between the U.S. and North Korea had thawed somewhat but just as tensions were ratcheting up between Washington and Tehran."

 

Iranians are stupid cows. That's why it's so hard to attack them. They are Neanderthals who can't understand how technology works and their missiles can't hit anything, because they are so stupid. And they are evil.

 

Trump remains cool and collected. what he did was better than the Manchurian , he didn't give them money, he gave them revenge , remember they attacked us first.