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Trump is APPALLED that Nobody is Talking About a CNN Poll With 100% Approval – That Doesn’t Exist

Posted by on May 5, 2026 at 3:15 pm. 0 Comments :

The resting state of Donald Trump’s personality, or what passes for one, is “Unbridled Rage.” Consequently, it isn’t exactly news when he is appalled by something. But it is still useful to pay attention to precisely what absurdities are triggering the Narcissist-in-Chief.

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Donald Trump, Mocking Disability

On Monday morning Trump hosted a group of athletes and children, along with a couple of his Cabinet flunkies, at the White House to promote physical fitness. That’s a subject that Trump is almost as unqualified to discuss as mental fitness. Trump’s impairment is so noticeably bad that recent polling shows that the American people regard President Biden, who Trump has maligned as mentally incompetent, as preferable to Trump.

SEE THIS: CUE TRUMP TANTRUM: Multiple Polls Find that Most Americans Favor Biden Over Trump

In this morning’s event Trump rattled off his usual quota of lies and inanities. Many were inappropriate for his youthful guests. But one that deserves some extra attention is his preposterous claim to being so beloved by his cult followers that it was even affirmed by a poll conducted by “fake news” CNN. Trump babbled that…

I am at, according to CNN, 100% approval within the Republican Party…Did you see the CNN poll? Nobody talks about it. I think the people that did that poll probably got fired. But within the Republican Party and MAGA, which is basically 100% of the party I think,”

Trump lies: "According to CNN, I'm at 100% approval within the Republican Party"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-05T15:49:59.081Z

There is a pretty good reason that nobody is talking about that CNN poll. It doesn’t exist. What Trump is talking about is a poll by NBC in March that found that among his MAGA devotees Trump had 100% approval. Which shouldn’t surprise anyone. It’s like finding that 100% of the pigs in a sty approve of the mud.

At least this time Trump acknowledged that the poll respondents were Republicans and MAGA. On previous occasions he cited the same poll, but left out that detail, implying that 100% of the population at large approved of him. Even so, in these new remarks Trump is still misleading by saying that MAGA “is basically 100% of the party.” Actually, in the same NBC poll they segmented the results to show that among non-MAGA Republicans, Trump’s approval was only 66%. So a third (31%) of his own party doesn’t approve of him.

MORE HERE: Trump Desperately Clings to Wildly Adoring Polls, Doesn’t Mention They Only Polled His Supporters

So what Trump said was “according to CNN,” wasn’t. And Trump flagrantly misrepresented what NBC’s poll did find. And he even imagined that CNN fired their pollsters. Never mind that virtually every recent poll shows that Trump is languishing at record lows for approval, as well as on every major issue, including Iran, the economy, immigration, etc.

No wonder Trump is so obsessed with lying about the abysmal state o of his popularity, or utter lack thereof. He is literally the most despised president in modern times. This forebodes badly for him with regard to the upcoming midterm elections. His ego simply can’t handle that rejection. So he’s feverishly trying to deceive his disciples – and, more importantly in his mind, himself.

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FLYING KETCHUP ALERT: Trump is Polling Worse than Both Biden and Carter on Inflation

Posted by on April 29, 2026 at 2:35 pm. 0 Comments :

The ego that devoured America – Donald Trump – is at risk of suffering a major mental malfunction if somebody on his team makes the mistake of showing him the latest polling numbers reported by CNN. Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his emotional instability when confronted by how much he is despised by the majority of the American people.

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Donald Trump Walking the Plank

CNN’s Senior Data Analyst, Harry Enten, delivered the bad news for Trump on Wednesday morning. It comes on the heels of his embarrassing reaction to the disturbance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, wherein he sought to shamelessly exploit the event to bolster his lame arguments for building a gaudy golden palace ballroom on White House grounds.

SEE THIS: DISGUSTING: Trump Uses White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting to Justify His Vanity Ballroom

The Ipsos poll focused on the public’s feelings about the economy and inflation under Trump’s “leadership.” And it isn’t a pretty picture. As Enten noted…

Inflation “is the number one issue folks say is facing their families right now. And Donald John Trump is in the worst position he has ever been in on inflation. And more than that, these are the worst numbers I’ve ever seen for any president. […] Trump is 49 points underwater.”

Enten goes on to reveal that the poll shows Trump trailing both Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, whose terms were notorious for having been badly hampered by inflation and other economic troubles. But Trump, who insists on being number one on everything, has managed to score the top spot on the list of worst presidents – again. Even a plurality of Republicans (45-39%) say that the country is “on the wrong track” since Trump reoccupied the White House.

Of course, Trump doesn’t care about inflation. He doesn’t care about the hardships of the American people. He surely doesn’t care what they think, or he wouldn’t lie so brazenly every time he opens his mouth.

What Trump cares about is spending half a billion dollars on his vanity ballroom, prosecuting his political enemies on phony charges, waging and losing reckless and unnecessary wars, rigging elections to preserve his power, filing lawsuits against the media, and engaging in blatant corruption to enrich himself and his billionaire friends. You know, all the things that the American people are most interested in. Right? RIGHT?

One more thing that Trump cares about is having his massive but fragile ego stroked. Which is why he holds Cabinet meetings where his flunkies take turns kissing his…let’s say ring, It’s why he is so obsessed with plastering his name and face on everything from currency, to federal buildings, to passports, to battleships, to government programs, and more. And it’s why he gets so outraged when he is certified to be a pitiful loser who is utterly demolished by the patriots that he abhors. That applies even more so when he loses to President Biden.

MORE HERE: CUE TRUMP TANTRUM: Multiple Polls Find that Most Americans Favor Biden Over Trump

There are good reasons why Trump is polling so badly. Virtually everything he does or says is contrary to what the American people want. They see right through his self-promotion and dishonesty. But rather than address those obvious shortcomings, Trump piles on more of the same, thinking that the quantity of assholyness will result in acceptance of it. And he is so demented that he can’t see how horribly that strategy is failing.

Unfortunately for Trump, it’s only going to get worse as he sinks deeper into the abyss. And none of his “loyal” cult devotees will have the courage to tell him, or to suggest that he change course. But they will will abandon ship after it’s already clear that the wreckage is destined for the ocean floor.

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Herr Trump is Scared Witless of Jessica Tarlov and Demands that Fox News ‘GET HER OFF THE AIR!’

Posted by on April 17, 2026 at 2:25 pm. 0 Comments :

The fragile snowflake currently occupying the White House, Donald Trump, relentlessly demonstrates just how frightened he is of anyone who dares to disagree with him, or otherwise defy his MAGA-sty. There has never been a president who is more rattled by criticism, or who is so cowardly or wears the mantle of victimhood like a shield.

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Donald Trump, Woman, Fear

Despite the present tribulations of the nation and the world, Trump remains laser focused on the issues that matter most to the American citizenry. Such as his fixation on how he is portrayed in the media that he regularly maligns as “the enemy of the people.” Never mind that his animosity toward the free press is so warped that it fails to connect with reality.

SEE THIS: Trump Desperately Clings to Wildly Adoring Polls, Doesn’t Mention They Only Polled His Supporters

On Friday morning Trump was performing what he thinks are the highest priority duties of a president: Pounding out childish rants on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. For the most part his hapless harangues consist of self-exaltations, vicious insults, and flagrant lies. And on this particular occasion, Trump hit the trifecta.

The bee in the crybaby’s bonnet this time was something he saw while watching his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. Jessica Tarlov, the sole liberal on Fox’s five member panel program, “The Five,” must have uttered something truthful which always outrages Trump. So he posted a comment saying that…

“I am watching one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television, Jessica Tarlov. Her voice is so grating and terrible, I had to ‘turn her off!’ Her Democrat soundbites are FAKE. She makes up ‘Poll Numbers,’ and nobody challenges her, because she is so boring. I have among the best Poll Numbers I have ever had, and why shouldn’t I, ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN. CNN had me at 100%, saying they never saw that before. GET HER OFF THE AIR, SHE IS BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY! I hear Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens are dying fast. Their numbers are terrible. Nobody believes them anymore. They were FAKE MAGA, and now they’ve been exposed! President DJT”

Trump is hate-watching Jessica Tarlov on Fox News and demanding that she be taken off the air. Because that's how President Snowflake spends his time.He's also exhibiting his dementia, claiming to have "the best poll numbers I've ever had." Even though he's at historically low levels.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T07:59:23.894Z

Notice that the first thing that Trump feels compelled to address is his opinion about Tarlov’s appearance. That’s typical of Trump who is obsessed with the most shallow aspects of life and is intellectually and emotionally incapable of comprehending anything deeper.

Then Trump launches into his lies about Tarlov’s remarks that he says are “FAKE.” Specifically, he is referring to her reporting of his abysmal approval ratings that he says are “among the best Poll Numbers I have ever had.” That, of course, is the polar opposite of reality. In fact, his current polling is literally the worst of either of his two terms in office.

MORE HERE: UH-OH! Fox News Poll Spells DOOM for Trump and His MAGA Republicans in Congress

Trump then brags that “ALL THE COUNTRY DOES IS WIN.” Apparently Trump thinks that skyrocketing costs for everything from gas to groceries to healthcare, is winning. Not to mention that the U.S. is still at war with Iran. He adds to his bragging that a poll says that “CNN had me at 100%.” But he forgot to mention that it was a poll of only MAGA supporters, who represent a measly 24% of the electorate.

Flummoxed by Tarlov’s factual smackdown, Trump resorts to his habitual tendency to threaten and bully. So rather than offer a substantive rebuttal, Trump dishes out orders to Fox News to “GET HER OFF THE AIR.” Because he just can’t handle ever being exposed to negative news about himself. And he believes that he has the totalitarian authority to dictate what goes on the air and what doesn’t.

Finally, Trump takes some swings at some formerly faithful MAGA-tists, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens, who he now says “are dying fast.” Actually, they are just accepting that the tide is turning for Trump and his MAGA cult, so they are deserting the sinking ship. Trump was reacting to a CNN segment from a month ago wherein they compared the favorable ratings among Republicans only of Trump (61) to those of Tucker Carlson (7).

Trump: “Tucker is a Low IQ person – Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!! So are Megyn Kelly, ‘Candace’ (Really Dumb and mentally ill!), and Bankrupt Alex Jones, who is completely‘fried.’”

— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes.bsky.social) 2026-04-17T12:46:04.098Z

Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens were some of the most fervent supporters of Trump. They defended him unflinchingly. They furiously attacked his critics. However, they have become disillusioned to some degree by his failure to keep his campaign promises to release the Epstein files, to refrain from starting any new wars, and his recent episodes of blasphemy. Consequently, Trump now regards them as “low IQ losers.” But it wasn’t always so for Trump. And CNN also did a piece on that…

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Most Americans Are Fed Up With Trump’s Lies About Taxes and Spending According to Fox News Poll

Posted by on April 9, 2026 at 2:08 pm. 0 Comments :

IT’S TAX TIME! And the American people are contemplating just how much they have suffered during the reoccupation of the White House by America’s most affluent authoritarian, Donald Trump. Despite his campaign promises to lower the cost of living on day one, to solve what he called an immigration crisis, and to refrain from starting any new wars, Trump has failed to fulfill a single pledge made after fourteen months in office.

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To the contrary, Americans are paying more for everything from groceries to gasoline to housing to healthcare. They have been terrorized in their own neighborhoods by Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs. And the nation is currently embroiled in a reckless and illegal war against Iran that Trump has failed to coherently justify or provide an exit strategy for. No wonder his approval ratings are in the toilet. Even according to recent polls by his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News…

SEE THIS: UH-OH! Fox News Poll Spells DOOM for Trump and His MAGA Republicans in Congress

Trump isn’t a big fan of polls that don’t show him as adoringly worshipped by 110% majorities of the people. And he has been critical of Fox News for occasionally publishing polls that reveal his weaknesses. So expect him to be in a foul mood if his nursemaids show him the latest survey from Fox News that asked voters what they think of their tax burdens since he returned to office. According to Fox News…

“With the deadline to file taxes a week away, a record number of voters say their taxes are too high, according to the latest Fox News Poll. They are also bothered by the rich not paying their fair share and how the government uses their money. In addition, three-quarters feel government spending is wasteful — up almost 20 points since last year. […] A record 70% of voters think the taxes they pay are too high — up 11 points from last March and surpassing the previous high of 64% in March 2024.”

These are abysmal numbers that reflect Trump’s ignorance, as well as the deliberate malevolence of his policies. He never intended to serve the interests of the average American. He was always focused solely on enriching himself and his billionaire buddies. So, mission accomplished. Consequently, these results shouldn’t surprise anyone.

The respondents to this survey cannot be dismissed as simply being whining malcontents who would complain about their taxes whatever they were. They are having valid reactions to the reality that they are encountering. Their dissatisfaction is borne out in a recent study by the non-partisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that found that…

“President Trump has raised taxes on most Americans in ways that more than offset the tax cuts he has signed into law. The net effect this year of all his tax policies is to increase taxes on the average American in all income groups aside from the richest 5 percent.” […]

“For a large majority of Americans, the tax increase resulting from Trump’s tariffs, along with the ending of the health care tax credits, more than offsets any tax cuts provided by OBBBA (One Big Beautiful Bill Act).”

Additional findings in the Fox News poll reveal that “What bothers people most about federal income taxes is the wealthy are not paying enough,” and that “Disapproval of how President Trump is handling taxes has reached a record high of 64%, up 11 points from a year ago.” Also, while three-quarters of Democrats, Republicans, and independents say that “a significant share of government spending is wasteful and inefficient,” for some reason 69% of Republicans rate Trump positively for his handling of government waste. That is in contrast to “nearly all Democrats (90%) and a large majority of independents (80%) [who say he] is not doing a good job.”

None of this augers well for Trump and his MAGA Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. Most analysts are now predicting that Democrats will likely end up with majorities in both the House and the Senate. In other words, Trump’s taxation may result in better representation. And if that happens, Trump and his MAGA comrades will be facing political and legal accountability in – as Trump would say – levels they have never seen before.

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Trump Desperately Clings to Wildly Adoring Polls, Doesn’t Mention They Only Polled His Supporters

Posted by on March 31, 2026 at 3:06 pm. 0 Comments :

The raging egomania of Donald Trump is often revealed in his pitifully deranged behavior. He has a habit of declaring that everything he does or says surpasses the meager activities of mere mortals “on a level that has never been seen before.” It’s remarkable how one person can be so extraordinarily superior to everyone else on the planet so consistently.

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Trump’s messianic view of himself comes across to most people as severely psychotic. But his glassy-eyed cult disciples embrace him as a manifestation of the divine. They are bound to accept his every pronouncement as gospel, and his every decree as holy. That’s the nature of a cult. And Trump is their Dear Leader who closely monitors their devotion to insure their unflinching loyalty.

SEE THIS: Trump PR Flack, Karoline Leavitt, Embraces Poll that Proves MAGA is a Cult that Worships Trump

To that end, Trump repeatedly misleads his cult followers by trying to convince them that he is universally adored. Nothing could be farther from the truth. His approval ratings are so deeply underwater that even Fox News can’t ignore it. So Trump resorts to collecting blatantly biased polls and presenting them as credible.

MORE HERE: UH-OH! Fox News Poll Spells DOOM for Trump and His MAGA Republicans in Congress

On Tuesday Trump posted three such polls on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social. The polls were conducted by the notoriously partisan McLaughlin & Associates. The results of these surveys say that Trump’s use of tariffs are approved by 91% of the survey’s respondents. Also, Trump’s decision to use military force in Iran is approved by 89%. Also, Trump arresting Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro is approved by 92%. On every one of those issues credible polls show Trump with overwhelmingly negative numbers.

In none of Trump’s posts did he bother to mention that the polls he posted were all taken at the recent CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) conference. CPAC is a convention of far right Republicans that featured guest speakers like Steve Bannon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, ICE Director Tom Homan, Matt Gaetz, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Mike Lindell, and, well you get the idea. It’s a convention of Trump-fluffers, by Trump-fluffers, for Trump-fluffers.

Some other results of the CPAC poll include Trump’s overall approval at 96%. And 94% say that Trump is “the best President in my lifetime.” Most of the more credible pollsters have Trump’s approval in record low territory that dips below 40%.

Trump, however, wants his cult devotees to believe that they are part of a massive contingent of patriots who want to make American great again, when they are actually a pathetic klan of kooks and crybabies who just want to blame their problems on minorities, immigrants, and the liberals who actually do make America great. So to rope in his MAGA-tists, Trump openly lies about his support. And this instance with the CPAC polls isn’t the first time. Just 10 days ago…

For the record, What Trump is lying about isn’t even a CNN poll. It’s an NBC poll that CNN reported on. And it surveyed only MAGA supporters. The small print in CNN’s graphic even notes that non-MAGA Republicans only support Trump 66-31%. So a third of his party doesn’t approve of him.

This is a desperation play by Trump. He knows that he is widely despised and that his MAGA GOP comrades in Congress are about to lose their majority status to Democrats. That will put Trump in the uncomfortable position of being vulnerable to honest and competent oversight for a change. And honesty and competence are two things that Trump is totally unfamiliar with, and intensely afraid of. The White House is going to have to stock up on ketchup bottles and other throwing items between now and November.

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UH-OH! Fox News Poll Spells DOOM for Trump and His MAGA Republicans in Congress

Posted by on March 27, 2026 at 1:55 pm. 0 Comments :

Less than a year and a half ago, Donald Trump managed to eke out a narrow victory and return to his occupation of the White House. And it didn’t take long for him to successfully sink the electoral prospects of his blindly obedient MAGA minions in what can now be called the Republican Cult.

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Donald Trump, Fox News, White House

Trump’s agenda of imposing unlawful and inflationary tariffs that increased the cost of everything from groceries, to gasoline, to housing, to healthcare, and more, were just the beginning of his assault on the American people. He followed that up with deployments of his ICE StormTrumpers in U.S. cities. Then he decided to wage an unprovoked and illegal war against Iran. And all the while disgorging virulent hate speech intended to divide the American people.

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The first year of Trump’s second term could not have been more politically crippling if he had devised it deliberately to destroy the GOP. His approval ratings have broken through the basement floor and are heading toward the Earth’s burning core. And this isn’t the opinion of what he calls the “radical left lunatics” in the mainstream media. Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, just a released a poll that found him floundering.

Fox published their results in an article declaring that “Sour voters say Washington is out of touch.” That headline actually bails Trump out by suggesting that it it isn’t his fault that everything sucks. It’s those “sour” voters. But the rest of the article wasn’t as gentle.

The article began by noting that “Voters are not only dissatisfied with the direction of the country but also pessimistic about the economic outlook.” The poll found that “Nearly two-thirds, 64%, are dissatisfied [and] that’s the highest dissatisfaction rating of President Trump’s second term.” Then the article elaborated saying that…

“His worst numbers are on inflation, with a new low of 28% approving […] His 34% approval for the economy is another new low, down 6 points since January and 9 points from a year ago. Other ratings are also well underwater: healthcare (36% approve, 64% disapprove), Iran (36-64), taxes (36-64), foreign policy (38-62), and immigration (44-56).”

Trump is unlikely to be able to improve on any of that between now and the midterm elections in November. One important reason for that is that he isn’t even trying to. To the contrary, he is doubling down on his widely opposed domestic policies by insisting that everything is the best it’s ever been in the history of mankind. And he’s celebrating his war in Iran as a “little excursion” that he says he won in the first hour, three weeks ago. Which begs the question, why is he still fighting, and even escalating, with thousands of troops being deployed to the Middle East, and requests for $200 billion more in funding?

It’s tempting to muse that, with regard to Trump, “When you’ve lost Fox News…” But Trump has never been satisfied with the polling by Fox. He frequently goes on the network to whine about their polls that sometimes put him in a negative light. But Fox News remains his mass media mouthpiece. And polls like these will rarely turn up on the primetime shows that Trump watches. So most of his cult followers will never see these numbers. However, here’s an example that snuck through during a daytime program…

Fox News may be accepting the reality that Trump is a mentally impaired loser whose star is fading. More likely, they realize that their audience is already aware of how dismal their lives are without Fox or Trump trying to persuade them that they are prosperous and happy. In any event, expect Trump to chastise Fox for having the audacity to post these poll results. He will surely regard it as an act of betrayal, and he might even sic his FCC boss on them with impotent threats of revoking their licenses (that don’t exist).

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Pete Hegseth Grasps at Fantasy that Americans Back Trump’s Iran War, While Attacking the Media

Posted by on March 19, 2026 at 1:45 pm. 0 Comments :

There is an old adage among lawyers that says, “If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.” Now we can add the Trump corollary to that which would end with “if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the media.”

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Donald Trump baby and Pete Hegseth

Actually, in Trump’s world he would probably say to pound the media even if you have the facts and the law on your side. Pounding the media is the first response to virtually every dilemma that Trump or his toadies face. He is so entirely incapable of forming a coherent thought that attacking the press is just easier and, for him, more personally satisfying.

SEE THIS: Trump Brags About Getting Fascist Control of the Media in Bonkers Truth Social Post

Naturally, Trump’s Cabinet follows the same unprincipled path of anti-constitutional dismissal of the free press. His Minister of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth, held a press harangue on Thursday morning to rant about (and at) the media for their audacity in covering Trump’s war against Iran accurately. Hegseth looked directly into the assembled cameras, pointing his finger at them, and bellowed that…

“I stand here today speaking to you, the American people. Not through filters. Not through reporters. Not through cable news spin. A dishonest and anti-Trump press will stop at nothing to downplay progress, amplify every cost, and call into question every step. Sadly, TDS is in their DNA. They want president Trump to fail. But you, the American people, know better.”

Trump's Minister of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth, attacks the media because he has no facts to support his illegal war against Iran. So he whines about the press asking legitimate questions:"They [the media] want Trump to fail. But you, the American people, know better."Ummm, OK.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T17:42:28.346Z

First of all, Hegseth’s insistence that he wasn’t speaking through reporters is downright hysterical considering that he was literally speaking through reporters. Well, at least a few among the MAGA-friendly hacks that he allows into the press room. Or did he think that the American people were all in the room with him?

What’s more, Hegseth’s whining that the media would “call into question every step” that the administration takes is a pathetic complaint that just reveals his ignorance of the fact that it is the media’s job to question any administration. Or does he think that the press should be blind sycophants who adore everything Dear Leader does and says? (You don’t have to answer that).

It was, however, generous of Hegseth to leave it up to the American people to decide for themselves what they think about Trump’s “little excursion” into Iran that has already cost 13 American lives, more than 1,400 Iranians, and cost over $12 billion dollars. On top of that, Trump is now asking for $200 billion more. For what he doesn’t actually say.

The American people have made their disapproval of all of that well known in numerous polls, with big majorities opposing the action. Furthermore, another survey shows that Trump’s handling of the war is also a disaster, with his approval on Iran at a dismal 36%, and disapproval at 56%. In the same survey his personal approval hits a new low at only 35%.

Not to worry though. Trump is buoyed by the glassy-eyed adoration of his cult following MAGA minions. A poll of their support for Trump came in at an astoundingly high 100%. Never mind that the MAGA mob makes up a paltry 27% of American voters. And their hive-minded uniformity affirms that MAGA is hopelessly brainwashed. In fact, IT’S A CULT! And it is that groveling gaggle that Hegseth is actually speaking to through the media that he and Trump despise.

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Trump PR Flack, Karoline Leavitt, Embraces Poll that Proves MAGA is a Cult that Worships Trump

Posted by on March 18, 2026 at 2:35 pm. 0 Comments :

With the 2026 midterm elections rapidly approaching, it is becoming more evident that Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican Party in Congress are likely to suffer a bitter defeat, losing majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Should that happen Trump would become the lamest of ducks to finish off his remaining two years in the White House.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Consequently, Trump is pulling out all the stops to get Congress to pass his so-called “Save America Act” (aka “Save Trump Act,” aka “Voter Suppression Act”) He has been posting a flurry of desperate comments on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, in the hopes of staving off the inevitable political drubbing that many analysts are predicting.

SEE THIS: IN A PANIC Trump Threatens GOP to Pass His Anti-Voting Act, Because His ‘Reasons’ Are Pure BS

Among Trump’s online pleadings is one that declares that this bill is a priority that must be passed “at the expense of everything else.” So he is placing it above his war in Iran, the affordability crisis caused by his tariffs, his hunting of immigrants, his vanity ballroom, the Epstein files, and his persecution of the media that he recently accused of “treason.”

On Wednesday morning Trump’s Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, sought to promote how beloved her Dear Leader Trump is. So she posted a video clip of CNN’s Harry Enten reporting the results of a new poll. The subject of the survey was the approval of Trump by his MAGA followers. Which reached levels that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could only dream of…

Enten: Sometimes you look at the polling data and there are numbers that jump off the screen at you. And this is one of those. Because just take a look here. MAGA GOP view of Trump, approve is 100%. If you are a member of MAGA in the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump.”

That’s right! The hive-mind uniformity of the MAGA movement is at peak deification. Not that that is anything to worry about. Because according to a recent Economist/YouGov poll “only 27 percent of all voters described themselves as ‘MAGA supporters’ and a perhaps surprisingly low 54 percent of Trump voters so identified.” So MAGA is a small minority of the general public, and only barely half of the Republican base. Yeah, that’s too many. But it shouldn’t be enough to wield any power, assuming fair elections are held.

Nevertheless, these numbers thrilled Trump’s press liar, Leavitt. So she proudly posted them on her Twitter/X account to pass on what she thinks is great news. However, the only thing that these numbers prove is that MAGA is a more nefarious disseminator of BS propaganda than North Korea.

There is only one way numbers could be that ridiculously homogeneous. And it’s what many people have been saying about MAGA for years: IT’S A CULT! Polling of all voters reveals that Trump is at record lows. Undeterred by reality, the cult’s spokeswoman is actually celebrating the thoroughness of the brainwashing and the unquestioning fealty that membership in the MAGA cult requires.

UPDATE: Trump himself cited the CNN poll and likewise lied about it by pretending that it represented all voters, rather than just his MAGA cult.

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SO MUCH WINNING? Trump’s State of the Union Ratings Ranks Near the Bottom for the Past 25 Years

Posted by on February 26, 2026 at 1:18 pm. 0 Comments :

On Tuesday Donald Trump delivered what many are saying was the most unhinged, hostile, and lie-riddled State of the Union address (SOTU) that he – or anyone – has ever given. It was, therefore, a typical display of his acutely warped persona that is permanently set to eleven on the scale of presidential derangement.

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Trump may have regarded this exercise in self-aggrandizement, infantile insults, and flagrant dishonesty, to be his best opportunity to reverse the downward trending of his presidency. Most polls show him at record lows for approval, and he is surely being eaten up by the fact that he is even trailing his arch nemesis, Joe Biden.

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Now another metric of success that Trump regards as the most important of all is flashing bright red signals of disaster. His television ratings for the speech have come in near the bottom for all SOTU speeches for the past 25 years. According to the Hollywood Reporter…

“Trump’s 107-minute speech (the longest on record) drew about 27.8 million viewers across the seven most watched broadcast and cable outlets: ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, the Fox broadcast network, MS Now and NBC. That’s down by about 12 percent from 31.45 million viewers for those same networks for Trump’s address to Congress last year. […] Fox News led the way with 9.1 million viewers.”

The only years where Trump was not dead last were one for Biden in 2021 during COVID, and another for Biden in 2023 when inflation hit its peak at about 8%. Note that inflation at that time was higher worldwide than in the U.S., and that Biden brought it down to about 3% before his term ended. Whereupon his last SOTU rebounded to be higher than Trump again. Here are the numbers…

  • 2026 (Trump): 27.8 million*
  • 2025 (Trump): 31.45 million#
  • 2024 (Biden): 32.2 million
  • 2023 (Biden): 27.3 million
  • 2022 (Biden): 38.2 million*
  • 2021 (Biden): 26.9 million#
  • 2020 (Trump): 37.2 million
  • 2019 (Trump): 46.8 million
  • 2018 (Trump): 45.6 million*
  • 2017 (Trump): 47.7 million#
  • 2016 (Obama): 31.3 million
  • 2015: (Obama): 31.7 million
  • 2014: (Obama): 33.3 million*
  • 2013: (Obama): 33.5 million
  • 2012: (Obama): 37.8 million
  • 2011: (Obama): 42.8 million
  • 2010: (Obama): 48. million*
  • 2009: (Obama): 52.4 million#
  • 2008: (Bush): 37.5 million
  • 2007: (Bush): 45.5 million
  • 2006: (Bush): 41.7 million*
  • 2005: (Bush): 38.4 million
  • 2004: (Bush): 43.4 million
  • 2003: (Bush): 62.1 million
  • # Joint Session of Congress
  • * Ratings for a speech preceding a midterm election like the current one.

Given Trump’s sub-par performance, both with ratings and the substance of his speech, it is highly unlikely that it will have any positive impact on the upcoming midterm elections. Although some negative impact could be felt. And the post-speech surveys bear that out…

If Trump thinks that his lie-riddled, hostile State of the Union speech is going to boost his approval ratings, he is gonna be sorely disappointed. Followed by a massive meltdown and more totalitarian raving.CNN poll: "This was actually his least well-received speech."

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2026-02-25T18:59:35.150Z

For those of you who missed, or more likely deliberately avoided, the speech, Jimmy Kimmel has helpfully provided a summary version of it that should be all anyone would need. His “State of the Union in 60 Seconds” includes Trump insisting that there has just been “too much winning.” Which is not validated by the polls or ratings. We also see him shouting at the Democrats in the chamber that “These people are crazy.” It’s rather bizarre to see Trump heckling Democrats from the podium, while he whines about being heckled from the audience.

In conclusion, it’s safe to say that Republicans are headed for a massive blowout in November. Although, don’t let that make you work less diligently to topple Trump and his MAGA Republicans. If Democrats and other patriots stay committed, the result will be, in technical terms, that “TRUMP IS TOAST!” And America – and the world – will be all the better for it.

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Fox News is TERRIFIED of How Awful Trump is Doing Prior to His State of the Union Lie Fest

Posted by on February 23, 2026 at 1:46 pm. 0 Comments :

Every public appearance by Donald Trump is an opportunity for him to disseminate another bunch of flagrant falsehoods that are designed to manufacture a fantasy world wherein he is not merely a strong leader, but the savior of all mankind. He desperately yearns to be perceived as the infallible and divinely anointed Messiah of MAGA.

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Consequently, the annual State of Union address is a profoundly significant event that has the potential to make or break a president, depending on how they perform, and how the public perceives it. In Trump’s case it is another chance to deceive America with ludicrous claims of fictitious accomplishments, rancid insults aimed at his many perceived political enemies, tiresome repetitions of imagined offenses, and egomaniacal exaltations of his delusional magnificence.

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Naturally, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, is feverishly working to promote Dear Leader prior to his big day before Congress and the nation. And who better than Fox’s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, to spearhead the effort to pump up Trump. So on her morning program on Monday she unloaded this bit of buffoonery…

“It’s incredible to me that it appears to be that the Democrats are so angry about President Trump’s success – he’s been so successful on so many levels and has done things so fast – that now the Democrats are boycotting the State of the Union. Adam Schiff, Mr. Russia Collusion himself, said he’s not gonna show up to the State of the Union tomorrow night.”

Maria Bartiromo: "It's incredible to me that it appears to be that the Democrats are so angry about President Trump's success, he's been so successful on so many levels and has done things so fast that now the Democrats are boycotting the State of the Union."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-23T13:15:45.524Z

Bartiromo is right. Trump has been incredibly successful. At exacerbating inflation; at raising the cost of living for everyone but the rich; at causing healthcare premiums to skyrocket; at terrorizing law-abiding residents of Democratic run cities; at decimating regulations that mitigate the harm of Climate Change; at blowing up boats with potentially innocent fisherman in the Caribbean; at alienating America’s international allies, while embracing authoritarian foes; at undermining the First Amendment and suppressing the free press; and at destroying the Republican Party and any hopes they had of maintaining their majorities in Congress.

What’s more, Bartiromo is demonstrating that she is just as out of touch with the American people as Trump is. She appears to be utterly unaware that Trump’s standing among voters is historically low. On Monday morning CNN’s polling analyst, Harry Enten, observed that Trump is floundering in deeply negative territory.

“Trump’s net approval rating, look at all the pre-SOTU polls…negative 27 points…Compare that to where he was in 2020, 2019, and 2018, in term one going into those State of the Unions…way lower now. The bottom line is this: Donald Trump has never been weaker going into a State of the Union address, according to our CNN polling, than he is right now. And weaker by a considerable amount. [And] Trump isn’t just weaker than he’s ever been going into a State of the Union address, he’s weaker than any other president this century going into a State of the Union address at this point in their second term.”

Enten: "Trump's net approval rating. Look at the pre-SOTU polls. Look at that — negative 27 points! My goodness gracious. Compare that to where he was in 2020, 2019, and 2017 — minus 10, way lower now. The bottom line is Donald Trump has never been weaker going into a State of the Union."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-23T13:35:59.999Z

Bartiromo is obviously taking her cues from Trump himself. He is fervently gaslighting the nation, telling reporters on Monday that “We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had.” But with nonsense like that he’s just reminding voters, who know better, that he is woefully out of touch with their lives. Democrats are likely to be hoping that he keeps telling these lies, because he’s really helping their electoral prospects in November.

As for the State of the Union, there is a respite for those who don’t want to be tortured by another hour or two of Trump spitting lies and rage-whining. As Bartiromo was kind enough to point out, MeidasTouch and MoveOn are hosting a People’s State of the Union. And Kid Rock is guaranteed not to be there.

For those Boycotting the State of the Union, MoveOn and MeidasTouch are hosting the People’s State of the Union. Let’s unite at this live event for an uplifting and powerful purpose. ???

— PINO FOTUS (@pino-fotus.bsky.social) 2026-02-23T12:12:30.964Z

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