The tide is turning on Trump

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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.

I second your ‘oh dear god.’

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

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

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.

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

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.

Yes.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.’

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!

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

Be careful what you wish for.

Because you don’t fight fire with more fire.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

YABU. All of those things were true even before they voted him in. The public seem to be ok with it.

Me too. My DD lives there. It’s a living nightmare for me watching this unfold.

Sounds like you don’t know much about American politics or know many Americans OP.

I’m no Trump supporter but if you think his actions aren’t very well calculated you are very much mistaken. He doesn’t forgot what he said. He says outrageous things and can climb back whenever he wants by just saying “oh, did I say that”.

He is a billionaire who has the vote of many hard working Americans who think he is ‘for them’ because in part they are sick of woke agendas and not being listened to. Contrast this with Joe Biden (who is working class) and Kamala Harris (as a person of colour and female) yet neither could win.

The problem is Trump is lauded as a buffoon. To do that is to massively underestimate what he’s capable of and how he is in fact a master of persuasion. You might not like but don’t be naive.

Oh, how you misunderstand and underestimate us if you think we don’t know the power of a buffoon. A crocodile in the guise of a buffoon. Few brain cells but fully focused on what benefits him and him only. It’s the biggest con in history that he’s managed to pull off a scenario where working class blue collar people believe a convicted felon of a daddy’s money billionaire gives a shiny shit about them. I genuinely feel sorry for them. Because as their Medicaid disappears, and their jobs disappear, and their subsidized housing programs disappear, and Social Security is a thing of the past, and homeless services are remembered fondly, then unfortunately, there will be far too many other issues for anybody to be able to do anything about it at that stage.

And meanwhile, they bleat on about how we don’t understand them, how Democrats don’t understand them. How they’re tired of the ‘woke,’ when the biggest misunderstanding is the one that happens when they look in the mirror and see a person Trump wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire.