Disapproval rose to 62%, the worst of his two terms in office, amid economic issues since launching his war against Iran
Six months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office – according to a new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
The US president received his worst ratings on the cost of living and other economic issues since launching his deeply unpopular war against Iran in February, which has plunged the global economy into an oil crisis and sent gas prices rocketing to a four-year high.
Trump achieved majority disapproval on his management of every issue measured, including Americans disapproved of his handling of that war by 66% to 32%, while a staggering 76% disapproved and only 23% approved of his handling of the cost of living. Two-thirds of Americans now feel the country is headed in the wrong direction.
I think it’s more a case that the people for whom gas prices are A Thing have now joined all the people who already disapproved of him… so another 5% of the population, who believed his lies right up until there was no denying that his actions were hitting their pocketbooks.
But that’s the point: the suffering of others, which they could prevent simply by voting, wasn’t enough for them. It wasn’t until it hit them in the pocketbook this way (after reduced healthcare and still-unmaintained infrastructure and tariff tax and, and, and) in addition to all this other ways it preventably hit them in the pocketbook already, that now they jump on board the harm-reduction bandwagon.
There are simply no more arguments for supporting this man that make sense logically; and there haven’t been for 10 years (before his first narcissist orade if fools), of course, but the apology now needs to be a little more sincere.