{"id":45576,"date":"2020-06-08T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45576"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:49:37","slug":"crybaby-trump-obsessively-clings-to-bogus-96-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45576","title":{"rendered":"Crybaby Trump Obsessively Clings to Bogus 96% Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good time to remember the old saying that repeating the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result, is the definition of Trumpism (aka insanity). And Donald Trump is helpfully continuing to affirm the wisdom of that proverb with tedious, all-caps repetitions of moldy oldies like <em>&#8220;LAW &#038; ORDER,&#8221; &#8220;MAGA,&#8221; &#8220;OBAMAGATE,&#8221;<\/em> and the venerable <em>&#8220;FAKE NEWS!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-phone-pacifier-fox.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Pacifier Fox\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43093\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3604355709579198\" 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>Among Trump&#8217;s most often regurgitated banalities is one that he is convinced will juice his popularity by the force of some imaginary crowd appeal. Trump believes that if he can convince people that others are bewitched by his irresistible charm, then they too will fall under his spell. So he tweets ad infinitum&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">96% Approval Rating in the Republican Party. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1269978005931282433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There are two very serious flaws in Trump&#8217;s logic. First of all, He doesn&#8217;t have 96% approval among Republicans, and he never has. It&#8217;s notable that as often as he tweets this, he has never once included a source or a link to any poll that would confirm it. And he tweets it quite often. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1097113815672647681\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">began this BS<\/a><\/strong> back in February of 2019, when the number he made up was only 93%. We&#8217;ve had some inflation. Just this year Trump has tweeted this phony stat 28 times (more than once a week). On 17 of those tweets the percentage of his GOP approval was 95%. The other 11 were inflated to 96% for no discernible reason other than ego gratification.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Trump is placing undue significance on his GOP approval. The percentage of voters who identify themselves as Republican is a paltry 28%. So Trump could have 100% of them and it still wouldn&#8217;t amount to much. It certainly wouldn&#8217;t be enough to win an election.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, a new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnn\/2020\/images\/06\/08\/rel6a.-.race.and.2020.pdf#page=19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CNN\/SRSS poll<\/a><\/strong> puts Trump&#8217;s job approval among his own party members at only 88%. What&#8217;s more, the poll also shows Trump&#8217;s overall approval at a pitiful 38% (57% disapproval). And in a head to head match up with Joe Biden, Trump comes out behind by 14 points (Biden 55%, Trump 41%). That represents a gain by Biden of four points since last month&#8217;s poll, and a loss by Trump of five points.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is desperately trying to dismiss these results. Naturally he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1269974605059555328\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">condemns<\/a><\/strong> them as being the work of <em>&#8220;Fake News&#8221;<\/em> CNN, and goes further to add a wildly irrelevant assertion that <em>&#8220;The Dems would destroy America!&#8221;<\/em> That, of course, is from the poll in Trump&#8217;s diseased brain.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump wasn&#8217;t satisfied with throwing around his own unsupported malarkey. So he later <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1270071794628726784\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a><\/strong> that he had <em>&#8220;retained [a] highly respected pollster&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;analyze&#8221;<\/em> CNN&#8217;s survey. Needless to say, Trump&#8217;s pollster is a notoriously biased right-winger who mangles the numbers beyond recognition. Trump isn&#8217;t interested in conveying an honest presentation of reality. His only objective it to muddy the waters and pacify his anxious cult followers.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that, not just one, but every single poll, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45383\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">including Fox News<\/a><\/strong> and Trump favorite Rasmussen, shows Biden leading significantly. The RealClearPolitics <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2020\/president\/us\/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">poll of polls<\/a><\/strong> shows Biden with an average lead of 7.8%. And Trump&#8217;s support is cratering among Republican notables. There are presently eleven generals and\/or admirals that have publicly renounced Trump (Mattis, Kelly, Allen, Powell, Myers, Dempsey, Thomas, Hayden, McRaven, Stvridis, and Mullen). And a growing number of former Trump voters are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45449\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pledging to support Biden<\/a><\/strong> this November.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Trump soldiers on in his belligerent, childish, egocentric way. He has no idea what a fool he&#8217;s making of himself as he ignores the tenor of the electorate by becoming ever more hostile. His proclamations of authoritarian rule are only thrusting him further into the abyss of political toxicity. His negligence, incompetence, and even deliberate malfeasance, is proving to be disastrous with regard to his handling of the social unrest, the coronavirus pandemic, and the recessive economy. And in his narcissistic stupor Trump refuses to see, or at least acknowledge, that for him it&#8217;s all downhill from here.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good time to remember the old saying that repeating the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result, is the definition of Trumpism (aka insanity). And Donald Trump is helpfully continuing to affirm the wisdom of that proverb with tedious, all-caps repetitions of moldy oldies like &#8220;LAW &#038; ORDER,&#8221; &#8220;MAGA,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43093,"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":[152,1,1200,8],"tags":[42,554,1140,377,430],"class_list":["post-45576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-polls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-phone-pacifier-fox.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bR6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57887,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57887","url_meta":{"origin":45576,"position":0},"title":"Trump Posts His &#8216;Proof&#8217; of Election Fraud in Georgia that Actually Proves Election Integrity","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/30\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The last presidential election was nearly three years ago. 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