We’re seeing an interesting sociological phenomenon take place in this country right now. Very simply, should the GOP be taking in its standard bearer’s truly dismal approval ratings? Or, should it be playing make believe along with Trump? And if it chooses to play make believe, then what good is it going to do to pretend that everybody loves Trump and the job he’s doing, when all the measurable data indicates the dead opposite? It goes without saying that we’ve never faced this issue before but the GOP has decided to give it a whirl.
As last week got underway, MSNBC producer Steve Benen says Donald Trump described “an alternate reality he clearly preferred to the one we live in.”
“In a post published to his social media platform, the Republican president described a political landscape in which he’s ‘getting the best Polling Numbers’ of his career, thanks to public satisfaction with the economy and ‘rapidly falling Energy prices,’” reports Benen.
“The claims appeared delusional,” said Benen, especially considering public dissatisfaction with the state of the economy and high energy costs. But in the days that followed, Benen said Trump “did what he always does: repeat nonsensical claims in the hope that public perception can be bullied into submission.”
“I have the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” Trump told reporters last week. Two days later he added: “I have the best numbers for any president in many years — any president.”
“Whether the president genuinely believes such claims is anyone’s guess, but the latest statistical evidence makes his absurdities appear even more ridiculous,” Benen said, pointing to national surveys showing disapproval for Trump in the 60s, the highest for both his terms. “… Put another way, Trump’s support isn’t just sinking, it’s also reached a new low for the year, and it’s reached depths no other modern incumbent has seen at this point in their presidency.”
Trump is not only underwater at this point, he’s at the bottom of the ocean along with the Titantic. But maybe ignoring that reality and declaring that rather than a sunken ship, his presidency is really some fine yacht that just won a speed race across the ocean is the way to go. Evidently Mike Johnson thinks that lying through his teeth is a good move to make.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer recently boasted on Fox Business that Trump is “only getting more popular,” despite Trump growing less popular, and Benen said Emmer has “plenty of company,” with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) also telling Fox Business that Trump’s approval rating “couldn’t be higher.” Even House Speaker Mike Johnson declared on CNBC over the summer that he saw a poll that showed the president’s approval rating at 90 percent, said Benen.
And what was that polling sample, Mike? Two Republicans, but one was passed out on the floor of the House cloakroom, so you decided to average the comatose Republican into your figures anyway because he had a thumbs up on one of his hands (if you squinted with one eye) and that’s how Trump ended up with a 90% approval rating? Oh wait — was this supposed to be a scientific poll? Hey, nobody told Mikey, alright? He was just doing his best to interpret what he saw around him and come up with a number, okay? Sheesh, you guys. Picky, picky.
Mike Johnson: There's such a staggering amount of gaslighting and false information that the Democrats are engaging in right now. We just thought it would be useful to separate facts from fiction… explain what the simple truth is.
LOL! This is pure gaslighting by itself pic.twitter.com/MV0fLhu8ya
— Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) November 3, 2025
Mike Johnson is so full of crap it’s literally spewing out of his mouth! He’s one of the biggest liars besides his Leader Trump! He needs to get some counseling for being able to lie pathologically so easily to the Americorp people! 🤬 pic.twitter.com/Wfy40kU2Jo
— Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1) November 4, 2025
It’s truly amazing what comes out of Johnson’s mouth these days. It would not surprise me one bit if smoke came out his ears and nostrils one day and he keeled over dead and it was found during an autopsy that he really was an android powered by AI, who somehow got away from Disneyland before he could go into a display case.
Let’s see how the blaming and lying goes. One thing is certain: It’s one thing to lie when the economy is prospering and it’s an entirely different thing to blame other people when you, in fact, are the party in power. People are going to be saying “ouch” as the fall goes by and everything costs more. Trump’s cavalier, “they’ll only get two dolls for Xmas instead of 30,” crack is going to come back to haunt him.
Let ’em drink champagne out of a 1920’s slipper, right Donald?
Besides projecting, he has forgotten that ‘a fox always smells their own, first’ – needs no further embellishments does it.
If MAGA Mike is able to deny his sexuality, anything is possible