Wow. DJT is getting wrecked on domestic responses. His disapproval ratings are growing by leaps and bounds every day. He’s flailing about trying to pretend that everything is Just Fine. His parade flopped, and No Kings Day most certainly won. He’s tanked the economy. His tariffs are being paid for by Americans, not the companies shipping the products. The list goes on. How about we hear from an article on Raw Story:
Donald Trump is leaning heavily on his attack on Iran and his recent NATO appearance to detract from the news that his popularity is waning, his big, beautiful budget bill may not be all that he hoped for, and prospects don’t look good for the president and his party going forward. That is according to Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota, who claims that things are not looking good for the president on the home front. With the Guardian’s David Smith writing, “in the sixth month of his second presidency, Trump’s domestic honeymoon is over,” he added that recent polling shows “About 49% of voters approve of his handling of immigration while 47% disapprove but on the economy 43% approve and 54% disapprove.”
So what does he do? He blusters and brags about other things. You know what? That doesn’t help, either. Instead of trying to fix things at home, he goes outside the country for his ego boost. He has to find *something* to talk up. And does he ever!
That has led the president to rely on foreign policy to boost his image as a strong leader, as demonstrated by his recent involvement in interjecting himself in the war tensions between Israel and Iran, as well as grandstanding at the NATO conference. “There are two presidencies,” he explained. “The one on the domestic front is gruesome and involves long-drawn-out and disappointing negotiations with Congress, and that’s exactly what Donald Trump is engaged in now. What emerges from Congress is not going to be as ‘big’ or ‘beautiful’ as he promised.”
Yea, the voters aren’t happy about that, either. The people also know *exactly* what he did by preemptively dropping bombs on Iran. And then he tells the Supreme Leader of Iran that he should be grateful that he wasn’t killed! LOL what??!! There’s more to that Truth Social post, but still, you don’t insult the leader of a foreign country like that. It’s just not cool. It’s massively stupid. But does he care about the potential this has for dragging us into another never-ending war in the Middle East? Oh, no, he certainly does NOT care. Now Iran has come back at him with one better. And they aren’t playing!
He added, “Meanwhile, you’ve got staggering photographs of bombs falling from the sky, Donald Trump’s flamboyant description of what he’s achieved in Iran and Europe. That’s the kind of Hollywood performance that Donald Trump wants.” The Guardian’s Smith added that now the Trump-Iran “narrative” is also falling apart, due to a “leaked intelligence report suggesting that the operation set back Iran’s nuclear programme by only a few months.”
He’s flailing about trying to find something to boast about. Instead, he’s getting weaker and weaker all the time, and I expect he’s not happy about that, so he’ll be looking for something else he can use to show how great and powerful he is. It will fail within weeks, if not days. SCOTUS just handed him a big bunch of good news. So, he may come up with something at home.
But domestically, he has been a huge failure. Even the LA Protest takeover was a flop, and he’s likely still stinging from that one, because he couldn’t declare martial law. I don’t know what he could try to do next, but I’m sure he will come up with *something*. It will go wrong quickly, and then he’ll be looking for the next thing. Ugh. Thanks for sticking with me!
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