For most of those years, he wasn’t the President of the US. Big difference between tweeting crap as a private citizen versus the President (not to his supporters though).
And of course, it is yet another part of the huge escalation of his war on the media.
His popularity does not continue to seep away. His approval rating was 45% when he took office. It went down to around 40% in 2 months, but it’s been around that point since then. It’s actually gone up by 2 points in the past 3 weeks, from 38% to 40%. (According to FiveThirtyEight weighted averages.)
A traditional duel wouldn’t work, for obvious reasons:
“Each of the parties shall now step ten paces away from each other, at my count… One… Two… Three…”
“(gasp) Golf cart… I need my golf cart…!”
Actually it does. If you look at what’s happened with Strongly support vs. somewhat support you can see the change. It’s also evident in strongly disapprove and somewhat disapprove.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trumps-base-is-shrinking/
This article is from a month ago, but I don’t imagine the trendlines have changed that much in June.
Things are getting interesting. Donald claimed that Scarborough begged him to kill a story in the National Enquirer, I guess it was to expose Joe and Mika’s relationship.
Joe’s tweet in response:
“Yet another lie. I have texts from your top aides and phone records. Also, those records show I haven’t spoken with you in many months.”
It seems that even Republican voters are starting to grow weary of Trumps twitter tantrums.
Note this poll was taken before the Mika tweet, so I imagine its ever lower now.
There’s a big difference between being disgusted with his stupid tweets and actually pulling support for the buffoon in chief. It seems to me his supporters are saying “I wish he’d knock off the tweets, but at least he’s not Hillary.”
Joe and Mika responding to the insults and exposing the blackmail.
Point taken. But Rasmussen polls show the downward trend has not continued. The “strongly disapprove” number has been fairly stable since April.
“we’re fine, but the country’s not”
Strongly approve has been fading across a number of demographics and appears to be continuing to do so:
Remember he’s only been in office 5+ months. These trendlines are not a good sign for him.
Strongly disapprove is going to be hard to keep growing since its already about as high as Trump’s overall approval is.
Look at the actual data points. You’ll see that the linear regression is driven by the big drop in disapproval numbers in the first 2 months of his term. The numbers stabilize after that.
What are you talking about? The graphs go from January to now and they are still going down for strongly approve and still going up for strongly disapprove.
Why don’t you quote the numbers you are referring to. The graphs in the link I posted do not support your contention, so if you can show your math your argument can be evaluated on its merits. Just asserting that the data points say something is not convincing. What data points do you mean specifically, and how do they support your claim?
This truck was seen backing up to the White House early this morning.
WHAAAA??
Only five MONTHS? The hell you say!
They’re not “issues” when you’re rich. Eccentricities, perhaps.
Quirks?
Peccadilloes, surely.
For the “strong approval” graphs in your link, hide the left half of the graph, ignore the dotted line (which is the linear regression for the whole graph) and just look at the data points. Some do show a moderate decline over the 5 or 6 latest data points, but most do not. The first one (Republicans), for example, shows a moderate increase over the last 6 data points.
Haven’t I seen stories saying that the Rasmussen polls tend to skew a good 10 points or more for Republicans compared to other polling organizations?
