Once upon a time when the Gallup Poll briefly had President Barack Obama at a 39% approval rating, Donald Trump called it "pathetic" and a sign of failure. Trump himself has now hit 37% in that same poll and he did it in record time. At this many days into his first term, Obama was at 63%.
So Trump is pretty much getting down to the voters who think the worst Republican president is still better than the best Democrat…the ones who'd support the Republican even if he nuked Michigan and was found to have taken a bribe from North Korea for doing so. But some of those people might still turn on him if it seemed plausible than his unpopularity would lead to a Democratic landslide and takeover. I'm not sure they'd all tell pollsters they were unhappy with their guy but they'd be pretty pissed at him.
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- Among the many terrible things Trump has done is to put Mick Mulvaney in charge of our nation's budget. Jonathan Chait tells us about the latest bit of twisted logic as to why we just can't have health care for all. I mean, it's not like any other country has ever made it work.
- And Donald Trump may be the only president who could propose slashing so many government programs and still do nothing to balance the budget.
- Margaret Hartmann reports that Trump has his aides checking to make sure that everyone in his cabinet is fiercely loyal to the president. Betcha every maniacal dictator in the history of the world has done something similar.
- As we all know, Trump claimed, and I guess still stands firmly behind his claims that Barack Obama conspired with British Intelligence to spy on Trump Tower during the election. As Jennifer Williams notes, this has been about as debunked as any story could possibly be. I don't know why we aren't having investigations into those claims about Trump and the Russian hookers. That was reported a lot more on the Internet than the spying thing and there was just as much evidence for it.
Oh, also: The Gallup folks say that 57 percent of young Americans see Trump's presidency as illegitimate. No wonder Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night Live soar in the ratings whenever they bash him.