Fake Arms Deal: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-trumps-saudi-arms-deal-actually-fake Fake signing ceremony:
Not that I'm complaining! I'd much rather he just SAY he's doing stupid/evil shit rather than actually doing it.
Didn't read, but I know there are fake signing ceremonies for deals all the time. I was hired for about $120 to be a white guy pretending to sign a document at a business forum in China. Free ride, free breakfast, signed another friends name on the fake contract, shook hands, went home. Now that is white male privilege!
Fake news, but nothing fake about the ceremony. He announced his position and signed a letter to Congress, whose approval will be required to implement anything, outlining it. Now like every other important reform he has attempted to enact, SwampCongress will drag their heels and try to weaken any significant change.
It may be that he really thinks he is signing a document even though his staff insists he is wasting time.
Oh no! http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-approval-rating-better-bill-clintons-first-term-621853 DONALD TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING IS BETTER THAN BILL CLINTON'S AT THIS POINT IN HIS FIRST TERM President Donald Trump is by no means popular—compared with his predecessors, his approval rating has been remarkably low during his time in the White House. But there's some small solace for the president this week: His approval rating is, at least for the moment, a hair better than where President Bill Clinton stood at the same point in his first term. Different polling outfits put Trump at varying levels of approval, but the RealClearPolitics average had him at 39.8 percent Tuesday, while the weighted average from FiveThirtyEighthad him at exactly 39 percent. Not great numbers, but still better than Clinton. On Day 138 of his presidency, just 37.8 percent of Americans approved of the job he was doing, according to FiveThirtyEight.
The only good thing about this is watching the intellectual backflips people who support him have to do to pretend that this sort of behavior even remotely acceptable.
Well okay.......as long as he's more popular than a Clinton, that makes everything copacetic and right with the world. Thank you for the reassurance......
I've decided that this is the point that there was no lesser of two evils. Now, knowing he lost Nevada I can put my head in the sand and not pull it back out.
Not that at all. It's the narrative by the press about how horrible Trump's approval is, particularly "the worst in history." Well, it isn't.
Well.......so long as it's not the worst in history.......that makes increasingly/progressively shittier approval ratings okay..... http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/07/trump-approval-rating-quinnipiac-poll-239250
The odd thing is that during the election, his high and low approval ratings have been pretty much the same as since his election. About a low of 35%, about a high of 45%.
It is interesting to look at Clinton's favorability, pre 2016. It fell from a high of 66 in 2012 down to 41 in 2015. Long before any claims of Russian hacking/whatever.
What's odd about that? The people who like rancid orange kool-aid are going to like it no matter what. Those of us who find it gross aren't going to suddenly find it appealing. barfo
