5mo ago

Trump generously makes up an approval rating for himself, defying reality

www.msnbc.com

Summary

Donald Trump falsely claimed he had approval ratings of 69% and 71%, despite no public poll supporting those figures.

Recent surveys from Pew, Quinnipiac, Gallup, and others place his approval below 50%, with some showing him underwater.

Trump has a history of dismissing unfavorable polls as “fake” and even sued a news organization over poll results.

Experts suggest his political success relies on maintaining the illusion of widespread support despite declining approval ratings.

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We've passed the point months, years ago ...
The idiot is not Turnip .... America is the collective idiot that puts up with all this shit and accepts it
I no longer think of him as dumb ... I think of the entire US government and its people as collectively stupid for making all this possible.
- https://archive.is/7NT83
  September 6, 2003
  Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.
  Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the latest Washington Post poll. That impression, which exists despite the fact that the hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals acting for al Qaeda, is broadly shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents.
  US citizens are and have been fucking stupid. They don't even need propaganda to believe stupid shit.
  
  Half the country has about a sixth grade reading comprehension level...so you definitely aren't wrong.
  
  You think there wasn’t propaganda pushing that view?
What a fucking man-child
I’d be surprised if he has that approval rating in his own family.
- There were a lot of insider stories after the apprentice TV show wrapped. Apparently, Ivanka and Don2 are not very nice to him or about him.
I mean, there's a solid chance his handlers are just giving him fake poll numbers and shit to keep him busy anyway. He's a fucking toddler, this dude isn't reading the news. He gets a piece of paper that says "EVERYONE LOVES YOU, 89% APPROVAL" along with another Photoshop of him on some magazine every morning to make him feel like a big boy.
- He is not just a toddler, he almost definitely has dementia and likely is also abusing some sort of stimulant.
  https://jmp.sh/s/9jyaWJXAEgkpsBFeEKmE
  
  Have you ever seen the Reagan lights out video?
  He's asked a question and they turn out the lights, turn off his mic and he spontaneously utters "my handlers told me not to answer that". He's Regan just with yes men that egg on the dementia rambles as genius 4d chess you need to be in the know to understand.
- He is pathological narcissist liar, and has always been so. He doesn't need handlers to give him fake poll numbers. He will happily create them on the spot.
tldr: He lies.
This just in: fascist dictator wannabe lies with reckless abandon.
Guy has the most fragile ego on the planet.
- It's a toss-up between him and President Musk.
Imagine how stupid and unimaginative you'd have to create your own approval rating and go with a number as low as 70%.
Aim higher Donny, aim higher.
- Surprised he didn't go with his famous 110%. Why not, anyone that believes him won't fact check or point out you can't have a 110% approval rate. 🤷
Why is this surprising? Everything he says is "people say", "they say", "polls say", etc without ever specifying who these "people" are.
- Well, these people do have different voices, and he can hear them all the time - he just doesn't know that it's his thoughts, cause he's to fucking dumb to realise it.
I'll say that, at this point, you can't even blame that fucking asshole. You can blame partisan media for not fact-checking this basic shit and having their dipshit viewers lap it up. It's broken beyond repair.
- Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.
  This idea of fact checks being the antidote to trumpian fascism is straight from 2015. No amount of fact checking or "facts and logic" will slow fascism, and the roaring success of Trump's campaign despite countless debate moderator fact checks, community notes, and politifacts should make that very clear.
  You need to abandon this liberal idea that Americans turn fascist only because they have yet to be shown the "data" or "facts". Liberalism is the idea that sitting a fascist down and showing them facts, logics, charts, statistics, and expert testimony will somehow magically convert them into a leftist.
  The leftists framework is that fascism is the result of worsening material conditions and withering away of social safety nets, and the only way to fight fascism is to change material conditions or kill fascists. This is in direct contrast with liberalism - which posits that the ever-evolving, self-correcting marketplace of ideas is the end-all extinguisher of fascism. Look where that got us....
  
  Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.
  I think the guy you're responding to was making a statement about the lack of fact-checking in the media in general, not with this piece in particular.
  
  So facts and receipts are out.
  Please assure me heckling and laughter isn't off the table. I need something.
- Oh, there is more than enough blame to go around.
Wasn't Obama's inauguration crowd bigger than both of his, combined?
Ministry of Truth
- Ministry of TruthSocial*
I heard the actual approval rating was closer to 420%.
- Pretty sure that's what Musk thinks his is.
- I heard he shot 38 under, including 11 holes-in-one, at a 7,700-yard championship course
  
  Wasn't it 1488 yards?
If it wasn’t for all the dead democrats who hate him he’d have a 98-99% approval rating.
- Remove all the illegals voting for disapproval and he'd be at 120% approval!
- "Okay. Just so I understand it, in your wildest fantasy, you are in Hell, and you are co-running a bed-and-breakfast with the Devil."
Oh yeah? Well MY approval rating is a gazillion percent!
To be fair, Elon has been 69-ing him
Oh that's not the approval rating of Americans, that's the approval rating between the people licking Trump's asshole right now.
Sounds like something he would do.
What's the issue, Lukashenko does the same
Well I mean, he probably says he has a 13" wang too.

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