{"id":160,"date":"2017-02-17T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2017-02-17T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:53:55","slug":"the-donald-keeps-sliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/160","title":{"rendered":"The Donald Keeps Sliding…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It certainly appears Trump is on a fast track to completely tanking. He really, really, REALLY<\/strong> needs to pull his head out of his alternative reality. But, given Trump’s yuuuuuge ego and overly inflated self-image it is very unlikely he will ever accept his shortcomings,\u00a0which are many and yuuuuuge, and make the attempt to do what he needs to do to be a successful president.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to next weeks\u00a0Gallup poll numbers.<\/p>\n

Since he announced his candidacy, there have been a grand total of seven polls collected by Huffington Post Pollster<\/span><\/u><\/a> in which half the country views President Trump favorably. That\u2019s seven polls out of 514, 1.4 percent of the total.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t matter, thanks in part to Hillary Clinton also being seen more negatively than positively by the time the election rolled around. And it doesn\u2019t really matter now, because the metric on which Trump is now judged is not favorability but job approval.<\/p>\n

Is Trump doing a good job as president? At his exhausting\/tive news conference Thursday, he suggested that he was, pointing to a recent survey from Rasmussen Reports that showed him with 55 percent approval. Over the course of 2016, though, Trump developed a bad habit of cherry-picking poll results that cast him in a favorable light, and that\u2019s where Rasmussen falls. There have been 138 polls of Trump\u2019s job approval since he took office; in 42 of those, he\u2019s at or above 50 percent. That\u2019s better than his favorability numbers, to be sure, at 30.4 percent. But it\u2019s also the minority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Full Gallup Poll BELOW THE FOLD<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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It certainly appears Trump is on a fast track to completely tanking. He really, really, REALLY needs to pull his head out of his alternative reality. But, given Trump’s yuuuuuge ego and overly inflated self-image it is very unlikely he will ever accept his shortcomings,\u00a0which are many and yuuuuuge, and make the attempt to do … Continue reading The Donald Keeps Sliding…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polling-data","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-2A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/516","url_meta":{"origin":160,"position":0},"title":"Trump Surrogate Judge Jeanine Pirro Wants Ryan To Go…","author":"Les","date":"March 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Judge Jeanine Pirro, another Trump surrogate blasted Speaker Ryan on her Justice With Judge Jeanine show. 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