Interesting piece on the Maddowblog today:
That’s not literally true though. There have been weeks when his approval rating was higher than the previous week. And if you look at that data so far, this week is actually one of them. (Though the polls are mostly before his meltdown on Wednesday.)
Things are going to get worse before they get better. How low can we go?
…and who says they’re going to get better?
Jan 20th 2021 things will probably get better.
Depends upon what criteria you use for gauging How Bad the Week Was, doesn’t it? Judged by the significance and advantage (or lack of) to the White House, this week – with its stumbling over the Charlotte debacle, the departure of CEOs and dismissal of the Councils, the altercations in Charlotte, and the departure of Bannon, has a good reason to be seen as a Bad Week, regardless of ratings.
He helped the country open up a dialog, long overdue, as to whether or not there are any “good Nazis”. We should erect a statute to him for that. Probably somewhere in West Virginia.
How is this different than every other week? Seems every time we turn around, he’s had the worst week so far. I agree, this is the worst. But he could very easily top himself next week. Not it seems Bannon will rejoin Breitbart and will be declaring war on Orangeanus and the “Democrat White House”, to quote Bannon.
I had a lucid dream the other day in which someone came on TV and explained that the Donald Trump administration had all been a social experiment to see what it takes to get partisan Americans to stop rooting for their team no matter what. “It was getting to the point that we were having trouble coming up with any example of more outrageous behavior. Some member of our team were suggesting we have him commit an act of cannibalism on prime time TV, but others were afraid that his remaining supporters would cheer if he started eating Heather Heyer’s body or chowing down on fillet of Jeff Sessions. Then where would we go from there?”
But hey, near the very end of the week there was a ISIS sponsored terrorist attack in a foreign country that probably put a smile on Trump’s face. So it hasn’t been all bad.
In his honor, every toilet produced from this day forward should have a picture of his face painted in the bowl.
Every member of the President’s Committee On the Arts and Humanities just quit out of disgust.
The thing is, he digs the hole deeper every week. Sometimes he digs a lot, and sometimes he digs a bit less. But the hole always gets deeper and deeper. So every week is necessarily worse than the one before.
No, just in Russian brothels.
And he’s supposed to be on vacation! He’s not even supposed to be here today!
Imagine how awful a week he could have if really put his 110% in it.
It is easy to assume every week is worse than the last because the Trump administration has been such a disaster and it’s been especially disastrous lately, but Maddow’s claim is literally false. If you go back over the timeline it is absolutely not true that every week has been worse than the last; until recently some have been relatively news-light.
I think it is fair to say, for instance, that the week of February 6, when nothing particular embarrassing happening, was better than the preceding week, when the court shot down his travel ban.
Similarly the week of February 20 was not nearly as bad as the week of February 13; that was the week Michael Flynn resigned/was pushed, a hugely embarrassing event that really accelerated the Russia thing; other Russia related humiliations came out that week too.
And with a certain artistic and creative flourish in the resignation letter:
For one thing, the background radiation levels will be a bit lower than they were on Jan 19th 2021.
Enh. He may have had a not completely terrible week sometime six months ago, but he’s been breaking records all summer.
CNN has a rundown of his recent atrocities. It was compiled before they could add, “Gets publicly snubbed by the mother of that poor girl who was killed by a Nazi”.
(Video via that tweet.)