Trump threw a fit after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called him a racist, and called himself your favorite president.
Trump Thinks He’s Your Favorite President
Trump went off over being called a racista and deemed himself your favorite president:
….he could not have been nicer or more respectful to your favorite President, me. Then I saw the column he wrote, “Trump Will Be Re-elected, Won’t He?†He called me a Racist, which I am not, and said Rhode Island went from economically bad to great in 5 years because the…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2019
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….Governor of the State did a good job. That may be true but she could not have done it without the tremendous economic success of our Country & the turnaround that my Administration has caused. Really Nasty to me in his average I.Q. Columns, kissed my a.. on the call. Phony!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2019
Trump is the least popular president in American history
Other presidents have had individual moments where their approval rating is lower than Trump’s, but no president in the history public opinion polling failed to achieve a 50% approval rating in an objective scientific poll until Donald Trump. A majority of the country has never approved of Trump, not as a candidate, and not as a president. Trump’s approval rating has risen with Republicans after racism week at the White House, but one should expect his overall approval with the rest of the country to drop.
Trump is desperate to motivate his base and divide the country as much as possible because, at heart, he knows that he is not popular. He needs to fragment the country and turn the opposition against each other to have a chance of winning.
While columnists like Friedman worry that Trump could win reelection with his racism, the president is making a classic mistake. He has unveiled his big campaign strategy too early. People tend to tune Trump out the more he obsesses over the same topics. Trump is peaking too soon, and one should expect a much different Democratic debate that will be focused on unifying the country to beat this president.
Trump is far from America’s favorite living president. That title belongs to Barack Obama.
Trump is nothing more a pretender who is trying to cover contempt with faux popularity.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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