Trump’s Popularity Started Dropping. What Was The Cause?

Here’s a little something that happened last month, and I hope it gets the same reaction from you that it did for me. Laughter is the best medicine after all. A writer noticed something about why Trump’s popularity is dropping like a stone. And the event that triggered it? This is *good*. From AlterNet:

“Unherd” writer Richard Hanania on Friday noticed a strong correlation between President Donald Trump’s recent collapse in popularity and another pertinent event in Washington, D.C. “Trump approval finally beginning to really decline,” said Hanania on X. “Turning point was around October 27. What has been the cause?” he posted. For X users, the connection was obvious. “It’s actually so funny, and so grim, that it seems like the East Wing/ballroom stuff really did it lmao,” posted X user Cassie Pritchard, a union member with Starbucks Workers United since 2022. //// “Demolition of the East Wing started on October 22nd. Would take a few days for that to show up in polls,” said another X user.

WHAM. A giant hammer is about to come down on Trump’s head. He did something reallyreallyreally stupid by taking down the entire East Wing of a museum. It *is* considered a museum, by the way. Yes, honestly. We never did find out if he had all the permits and so forth. We all screamed. The backlash began. We won’t ever get that wing and what was in it back. *NEVER* It makes us angry and sad, and by rights it should!

Critics howled as excavators and demolition teams began ripping down the East Wing in mid-October, with graphic images splashing across social media and providing a visual of perceived damage that Trump’s critics say the president was similarly doing to the nation. In her October 25 opinion column, The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd pointed to the demolition of the East Wing as symbolic of Trump’s broader problem. “Trump has so little respect for this 123-year-old symbol of American history that he didn’t check with federal planning officials or Congress before he obliterated one side of the White House,” Dowd argued. “… Build a $300 million, 90,000-square-foot gilt ballroom — which will overshadow the central edifice — while the government is shut and people have been thrown out of work.”

Oh, yes. Just more proof that he doesn’t care about anything except the next grift or his vanity project, and the list goes on. How many people across the US are heartbroken now? How many people are hungry? How many people need their healthcare? That list goes on and on, too. But the East Wing debacle may be at the top of the list for 2025. He hasn’t even been in office a year yet. To close:

“You don’t have to be a wild-eyed leftist to think all of this has a pre-French Revolution vibe,” said conservative writer William Kristol, speaking on lingering economic dissatisfaction. “… The Old Regime in France led to the Revolution of 1789. And that revolution in turn quickly produced the Reign of Terror. It was one of the architects of the Terror, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette … who … famously cited the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.’”

What an apt saying. We wouldn’t actually *eat* them, but we would damn well take back what is ours. Too much power is in the hands of a few people. No Kings started it. The East Wing added to it. Trump has pushed us a little too far with that wanton destruction. We can wonder what will happen next. We shall see.

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