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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    2 days 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.

  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    1 day ago

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

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      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.

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      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.

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    2 days 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.

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      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…

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        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.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        1 day ago

        So facts and receipts are out.

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

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    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.