Managing the erratic moods of Donald Trump Trump must be a full time job for a staff of White House nursemaids and babysitters. Particularly while his failures are being revealed in ever increasing frequency and severity.
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In recent days Trump’s illegal war against Iran has devolved into a cesspool of acrimony and retaliatory threats, while Trump claimed he had just successfully negotiated a deal for peace. And speaking of cesspools, Trump’s “renovation” of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to be more reflective of a sewage swamp.
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Furthermore, Trump’s mismanagement of the economy has resulted in higher inflation and rising costs for everything from gas, to groceries, to housing, to healthcare, and more. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that Trump’s approval ratings are in the toilet. Which makes it all the more bizarre that he seems to think that he’s riding a wave of massive popularity.
On Friday morning Trump posted a comment on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, “bragging” about having found a poll that “accurately” measures how universally beloved he is. He claims, without providing a source, that he has approval ratings of “65% and more.” In the post he linked to an article by the rightist rag Newsmax, that cited a poll putting him at only 50%. And that one was done by the notoriously biased, right-wing pollster McLaughlin. And even that was ridiculously inflated. See CNN’s poll of polls average placing Trump at an abysmal 37% approval.
This sort of lying about his perceived fabulousness is patently Trumpian behavior. However, it’s difficult to tell whether he actually believes this obvious bullpucky, or if he is just so determined to avoid telling the painful truth that he doesn’t care how apparent his lies are. If it advances his efforts to deceive his gullible cult disciples, he’s all in.
Clinging to rabidly partisan pollsters, and manufacturing other numbers that exist only in his rapidly putrefying brain, is typically Trump. Just two days ago he posted a comment that said simply (and firmly in all caps) that “MY REAL POLL NUMBERS ARE THE HIGHEST THEY HAVE EVER BEEN. THANK YOU!!!” As usual, he didn’t bother to include a link to any poll confirming that claim. He just expects his devotees to believe whatever he says. Because that’s how cults work.
Trump’s vision of himself as a messianic figure continued on Friday with a speech to the “Faith and Freedom Coalition.” It was a speech crammed with theocratic crackpottery that reeked of political biases, religious bigotry, and incitements to violence. It also included something that Trump framed as a joke. But it was the sort of joke that Trump tells when he’s expressing his true feelings, but doesn’t want to take heat for it. He whined that…
“Our Founders invoked the Creator four times in the Declaration of Independence. Four times. I wasn’t mentioned once. I’m very upset. Not once.”
Trump: "Our Founders invoked the Creator four times in the Declaration of Independence. Four times. I wasn't mentioned once. I'm very upset. Not once."
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