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The tide is turning on Trump

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ImmediateReaction · 03/03/2025 17:30

  1. CNN now, poll shows majority of Americans disapprove of Trump.
  1. Commentator stated that Trump spoke about his several conversations with Putin and alarm bells ring, because Trump is parroting what Putin says. No independent thoughts?
  1. He comes over as having memory problems. He forgets what he said earlier.
  1. He needs help running press conferences and appears unable to manage without support.

Is he ill?

It's very odd.

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CerealPosterHere · 04/03/2025 05:44

Mummyoflittledragon · 04/03/2025 05:04

On the plus side, if he changes the constitution to allow a 3rd term, there are a couple of former presidents the same age as him. Namely George Bush and Bill Clinton. Perhaps they fancy their chances. I doubt Barack Obama will despite being younger.

Apparently he’s planned on changing it but not retrospectively, so any previous president won’t be eligible.

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 04/03/2025 05:41

Loads of people in the US are applauding trump and saying he’s putting the US first. He was never popular outside of the US and will half of the country anyway.
i think it’s too early to see if there’s a change.

MajorCarolDanvers · 04/03/2025 05:34

It doesn’t matter though. He’s got 4 years in power

DriftDaisy · 04/03/2025 05:33

@ImmediateReaction

Unfortunately, I don’t believe the tide will turn.
He has amassed billionaires around himself and can pay for the law to be his way.

Anything moral or lawful is out the window if he decides he wants things differently.
We have a dictator and there is no way to remove him.

Mummyoflittledragon · 04/03/2025 05:04

On the plus side, if he changes the constitution to allow a 3rd term, there are a couple of former presidents the same age as him. Namely George Bush and Bill Clinton. Perhaps they fancy their chances. I doubt Barack Obama will despite being younger.

JustMyView13 · 04/03/2025 04:51

ImmediateReaction · 03/03/2025 21:02

No one seems to have the guts to stand up to Trump. Bully boy gets his own way otherwise tantrums

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Because you don’t fight fire with more fire.

Never2many · 04/03/2025 04:48

It doesn’t matter what the public think. They voted him in.

Be careful what you wish for.

Getbackinthebox · 04/03/2025 04:36

He’s just withdrawn all military support for Ukraine with immediate effect which seems to be either because of the disasterous Oval office meeting or because Zelenski wont apologise (he doesnt need to) or because he’s helping his mate Putin again. I think its the last of these and unfortunately the American public have been duped. I think they just thought they were voting in a criminal not a Russian asset!

Jacquettes · 04/03/2025 04:18

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 04/03/2025 03:59

The Daily Mail itself is turning on him. The tone of the articles, choice of photos, is different recently. The readership just regurgitates whatever drivel it's being fed.

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Fox News has done a couple of similar articles.

Both are quite capable of turning back the other way though. I think sometimes they do a short about face it in order to seem ‘balanced.’

ThereTheirTheyreYourYoureToTooLEARNTHEM · 04/03/2025 04:17

AshKeys · 03/03/2025 23:46

Yet they don’t seem prepared to respect the results of the last one….

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Who here is suggesting that Trump was not legitimately elected? We are entitled to disagree with Trump, even disrespect him.

spuddy4 · 04/03/2025 04:14

Funny how when people hate on Starmer we must give him a chance because he's only just got into government and it's all the Tories fault but when it's Trump those rules don't apply. Doesn't matter what you think of him at least he's finally nudged Europe into doing something about Ukraine and not just throwing money at them like we have for the past three years. Never ending money was never going to be a long term solution to a war because eventually Ukraine will run out of people to conscript so there should have always been a better plan in place rather than funding it.

jellyfishperiwinkle · 04/03/2025 04:13

It annoys me how utterly fucking thick or delusional people had to be to give him a positive rating or vote for him in the first place, given everything we already knew about him. Bit late to change your opinion now. What did you expect? Rainbows and kittens?

beenwhereyouare · 04/03/2025 04:12

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KnickerlessParsons · 03/03/2025 18:32

Is there any mechanism in the US for ousting an unpopular president?

They can be impeached.

Oh wait, that happened in his first term and still the felon was elected again.

I can't believe this is the state of US democracy now. It's a nightmare that worsens every day, and the anxiety it causes is killing me.

Jacquettes · 04/03/2025 04:04

Motorroller · 04/03/2025 03:36

That’s not what allowed Trump back in. People with standards low enough to vote for a convicted sexual abuser and felon are what allowed him back in.

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Yes.

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 04/03/2025 03:59

Wildflowers99 · 03/03/2025 18:51

Even the Daily Mail readers are turning on him.

The Daily Mail itself is turning on him. The tone of the articles, choice of photos, is different recently. The readership just regurgitates whatever drivel it's being fed.

lemmein · 04/03/2025 03:41

I doubt he'll survive 4 years - if a bullet doesn't get him cholesterol will!

Motorroller · 04/03/2025 03:36

User32459 · 03/03/2025 17:36

Sadly the last president was even more cognitively impaired which allowed Trump back in.

That’s not what allowed Trump back in. People with standards low enough to vote for a convicted sexual abuser and felon are what allowed him back in.

QOD · 04/03/2025 03:10

I have a large group of American friends and acquaintances
90% are horrified by him
10% are rabid supporters (and not in the friends category)
they’re all way more religious and seem to live more rurally and are the rabid patriotic people that we see in the movies. Lots of god bless the usa and flag waving

Jacquettes · 04/03/2025 03:02

JanglingJack · 04/03/2025 02:35

I've voted YABU because the dickhead has only just started a four year term. It's a bit late for the tide turning whatever your opinion.

No previous president has dropped so far, and so swiftly, in the polls than Trump has. So maybe not as unreasonable as you think.

Jacquettes · 04/03/2025 02:53

SallyWD · 03/03/2025 22:55

Oh dear God...

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I second your ‘oh dear god.’

Dogaredabomb · 04/03/2025 02:48

PandaTime · 04/03/2025 01:43

Give it time. When Americans continue to live and die in poverty, and suffer because they cannot afford medical treatment, and the cost of living increases while pay and job opportunity stays low, and the fingers of blame turn to point at the poorest and weakest of society because there are no immigrants or wars to blame it on anymore, they might finally wake up and realise how fucking corrupt their country is. The rich will get richer while the poor keep suffering.

We have that here and nothing changes.

Dogaredabomb · 04/03/2025 02:47

I think he's pretty popular with the Average Joe in the flyover states. I see a full term of Trump ahead, scarily.

2021x · 04/03/2025 02:39

It doesn't matter if he is unpopular.. technically he can't run again, but you also can't try and overturn an election and expect to be made president again but he did.

He will just make as much money for himself as he can, living rent free at the expense off the taxpayer over the next 4 years, then at the next election we will really see democracy is dead in the US.

JanglingJack · 04/03/2025 02:35

I've voted YABU because the dickhead has only just started a four year term. It's a bit late for the tide turning whatever your opinion.