{"id":41534,"date":"2019-05-17T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41534"},"modified":"2019-05-17T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:14:48","slug":"senile-or-stupid-trump-is-ecstatic-about-his-total-misreading-of-a-devastating-fox-news-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41534","title":{"rendered":"Senile or Stupid? Trump is Ecstatic About His Total Misreading of a Devastating Fox News Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The age old question has arisen again in this historically warped Era of Trump. Is the President suffering from a severe mental collapse, or is he just the biggest dumbass to ever reside in the White House? It&#8217;s a question that has perplexed seasoned politicos and concerned citizens alike. And of course, one answer doesn&#8217;t negate the other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-loser-emoji.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36578\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2731862903495154\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest episode of Donald Trump&#8217;s cognitive infirmity arose &#8211; as it often does &#8211; in his Twitter feed that violently shifts from the hysterical to the frightening. It is a unique compendium of his rampant lies, consuming paranoia, and vile hostility. It is also an outlet for his narcissistic exaltations of himself. The latter was evident on Friday morning when he tweeted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Fox Poll: 58% of people say that the FBI broke the law in investigating Donald J. Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1129342171612626944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first thing that reveals the irrelevance of this post is that Trump is citing the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends as his source. So naturally the substance can be presumed to be bullshit. In fact, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fox-news-poll-five-takeaways-on-the-russia-investigation-post-mueller-report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News poll<\/a><\/strong> to which he is referring actually shows a very different result than Trump&#8217;s skewed anlaysis. A majority (51 percent), when asked how likely it was that intelligence agencies like the FBI broke the law while investigating Trump&#8217;s collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, said <em>&#8220;Not At All&#8221;<\/em> or only <em>&#8220;Somewhat.&#8221;<\/em> What&#8217;s more, a more detailed breakdown showed that only 24 percent said it was <em>&#8220;Extremely&#8221;<\/em> likely, while 31 percent said <em>&#8220;Not At All.&#8221;<\/em> That, however, was not the only bad news for Trump in this poll. It also showed that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>46% of voters approve of the way Mueller handled the Russia investigation, while only 32% disapprove.<\/li>\n<li>A plurality said that they trust Mueller (45%) more than Trump (27%).<\/li>\n<li>Voters also trust Mueller over Attorney General Barr (40% to 22%), and Democrats over the Trump administration (44% to 33%).<\/li>\n<li>They said that AG Barr is covering up for Trump (45% to 33%).<\/li>\n<li>42% said they favor impeaching Trump.<\/li>\n<li>They say that Democrats in Congress are seeking the truth rather than attacking Trump (49% to 41%).<\/li>\n<li>On whether they would vote for Trump in 2020, 54% say No, 38% say Yes. (Definitely No: 46% to definitely Yes only 28%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yet somehow Trump managed to spin this poll (did I mention that it&#8217;s by Fox News?) as positive for him. He went on to tweet more nonsense that is only true in his diseased brain. Such as his ludicrous assertion that his <em>&#8220;Campaign for President was conclusively spied on.&#8221;<\/em> Even his own, hand-picked FBI director, Christopher Wray, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/fbi-chief-wray-says-spying-didn-t-occur-trump-campaign-n1002806\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">disputes that<\/a><\/strong>. But <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1129343742748569601\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump tweeted<\/a><\/strong> that this delusion was <em>&#8220;TREASON.&#8221;<\/em> He also tweeted <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1129360082783875074\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more lies<\/a><\/strong> about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails (when will it end?).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You really have to wonder how Trump manages to maintain his utterly deranged fallacies about himself and the world. His perspective is so far removed from reality that it&#8217;s hard to imagine how he gets through the day. But what&#8217;s worse is that he has a small base of supporters who hang on his every lie as if it were gospel. And his Republican Nationalist Party backs up his dementia all the way. This isn&#8217;t the behavior of a political movement. It&#8217;s the behavior of a cult. And like all such cults, it&#8217;s going to end badly for the deceived believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age old question has arisen again in this historically warped Era of Trump. Is the President suffering from a severe mental collapse, or is he just the biggest dumbass to ever reside in the White House? It&#8217;s a question that has perplexed seasoned politicos and concerned citizens alike. And of course, one answer doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[554,879,33,39,430,1247,1364],"class_list":["post-41534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-impeach","tag-polls","tag-robert-mueller","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-loser-emoji-e1571261064815.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aNU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45842,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45842","url_meta":{"origin":41534,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Apologizes for &#8216;Mistakenly&#8217; Cropping Trump Out of Epstein Photo","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/6\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The mission of Fox News from its inception has been to unreservedly promote right-wing propaganda and the agenda of the arch-conservative Republican Party. 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