Summary

Donald Trump falsely claimed he had approval ratings of 69% and 71%, despite no public poll supporting those figures.

Recent surveys from Pew, Quinnipiac, Gallup, and others place his approval below 50%, with some showing him underwater.

Trump has a history of dismissing unfavorable polls as “fake” and even sued a news organization over poll results.

Experts suggest his political success relies on maintaining the illusion of widespread support despite declining approval ratings.

  • @Tezzerets_Tea_Time
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    128 hours ago

    This just in: fascist dictator wannabe lies with reckless abandon.

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    99 hours ago

    Wasn’t Obama’s inauguration crowd bigger than both of his, combined?

  • @cultsuperstar
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    1314 hours ago

    Why is this surprising? Everything he says is “people say”, “they say”, “polls say”, etc without ever specifying who these “people” are.

    • @P1nkman
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      18 hours ago

      Well, these people do have different voices, and he can hear them all the time - he just doesn’t know that it’s his thoughts, cause he’s to fucking dumb to realise it.

  • IninewCrow
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    10622 hours ago

    We’ve passed the point months, years ago …

    The idiot is not Turnip … America is the collective idiot that puts up with all this shit and accepts it

    I no longer think of him as dumb … I think of the entire US government and its people as collectively stupid for making all this possible.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      21 hours ago

      https://archive.is/7NT83

      September 6, 2003

      Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.

      Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the latest Washington Post poll. That impression, which exists despite the fact that the hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals acting for al Qaeda, is broadly shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents.

      US citizens are and have been fucking stupid. They don’t even need propaganda to believe stupid shit.

      • @Arbiter
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        613 hours ago

        You think there wasn’t propaganda pushing that view?

      • @joekar1990
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        2120 hours ago

        Half the country has about a sixth grade reading comprehension level…so you definitely aren’t wrong.

        • @Keeponstalin
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          1019 hours ago

          Dismantling public education has been deliberate, so has the expansion of right-wing propaganda to all forms of media. Both are done at the behest of capital owners to divide the working class

      • @[email protected]
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        818 hours ago

        The White House spent months alleging a connection. It proves how little Americans understood about Iraq or Al Qaeda that they thought they would collude

        • Snot Flickerman
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          518 hours ago

          Exactly, Hussein was running a secular government while Al Qaeda were religious extremists pushing for religious rule.

  • @MegaUltraChicken
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    2418 hours ago

    I mean, there’s a solid chance his handlers are just giving him fake poll numbers and shit to keep him busy anyway. He’s a fucking toddler, this dude isn’t reading the news. He gets a piece of paper that says “EVERYONE LOVES YOU, 89% APPROVAL” along with another Photoshop of him on some magazine every morning to make him feel like a big boy.

    • @uienia
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      13 hours ago

      He is pathological narcissist liar, and has always been so. He doesn’t need handlers to give him fake poll numbers. He will happily create them on the spot.

      • @Madison420
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        714 hours ago

        Have you ever seen the Reagan lights out video?

        He’s asked a question and they turn out the lights, turn off his mic and he spontaneously utters “my handlers told me not to answer that”. He’s Regan just with yes men that egg on the dementia rambles as genius 4d chess you need to be in the know to understand.

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    19 hours ago

    Well I mean, he probably says he has a 13" wang too.

    • @ilinamorato
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      315 hours ago

      “Okay. Just so I understand it, in your wildest fantasy, you are in Hell, and you are co-running a bed-and-breakfast with the Devil.”

  • @Carvex
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    3022 hours ago

    What a fucking man-child

  • @blattrules
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    2522 hours ago

    I’d be surprised if he has that approval rating in his own family.

    • @[email protected]
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      414 hours ago

      There were a lot of insider stories after the apprentice TV show wrapped. Apparently, Ivanka and Don2 are not very nice to him or about him.

  • @breakingcups
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    1220 hours ago

    I’ll say that, at this point, you can’t even blame that fucking asshole. You can blame partisan media for not fact-checking this basic shit and having their dipshit viewers lap it up. It’s broken beyond repair.

    • @[email protected]
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      818 hours ago

      Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.

      This idea of fact checks being the antidote to trumpian fascism is straight from 2015. No amount of fact checking or “facts and logic” will slow fascism, and the roaring success of Trump’s campaign despite countless debate moderator fact checks, community notes, and politifacts should make that very clear.

      You need to abandon this liberal idea that Americans turn fascist only because they have yet to be shown the “data” or “facts”. Liberalism is the idea that sitting a fascist down and showing them facts, logics, charts, statistics, and expert testimony will somehow magically convert them into a leftist.

      The leftists framework is that fascism is the result of worsening material conditions and withering away of social safety nets, and the only way to fight fascism is to change material conditions or kill fascists. This is in direct contrast with liberalism - which posits that the ever-evolving, self-correcting marketplace of ideas is the end-all extinguisher of fascism. Look where that got us…

      • @Nightwingdragon
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        418 hours ago

        Are we looking at the same article? This piece is literally a fact check.

        I think the guy you’re responding to was making a statement about the lack of fact-checking in the media in general, not with this piece in particular.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 hours ago

        So facts and receipts are out.

        Please assure me heckling and laughter isn’t off the table. I need something.

    • @ilinamorato
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      115 hours ago

      Oh, there is more than enough blame to go around.

  • TomMasz
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    1621 hours ago

    tldr: He lies.

  • fyf
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    1421 hours ago

    Imagine how stupid and unimaginative you’d have to create your own approval rating and go with a number as low as 70%.

    Aim higher Donny, aim higher.

    • Lukas Murch
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      419 hours ago

      Surprised he didn’t go with his famous 110%. Why not, anyone that believes him won’t fact check or point out you can’t have a 110% approval rate. 🤷