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Good news for Trump! Before midterms he’s still more popular than cockroaches!

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited February 18 in Off-Topic
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

Trump’s disapproval rating indicates he’s less popular with Americans than some insects like ants.
A couple of years ago, the polling company YouGov asked people about insects. The resulting survey found that butterflies are America’s favorite insect, with eight in 10 people having a “very or somewhat positive” reaction to them.

Many journalists will tell you to never trust the polling, and they’ve been proven right many times over. Still, aren’t you curious how a random group of 1,148 adults feels about bugs? Well, the YouGov poll also asked Americans about their least favorite insects. It turns out 86% of people have a “very or somewhat negative” reaction to mosquitoes. Cockroaches have a disapproval rating of 84%, while 76% of people dislike wasps.

Donald Trump’s disapproval rating, this time according to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, among all Americans is currently 61%, which means he is not as unpopular as wasps, but is disliked more than spiders (57% – I know, I know, spiders are not insects, but YouGov included them on the list ) and ants (52%).

It’s a bit too early to tell what’s going to happen. But what about Trump? How is the historically unpopular president holding up? Well, while he may have told Republicans in private that he is worried about losing the House, in public he is presenting a brave, if entirely disingenuous, face.

“The highest poll numbers I have ever received,” Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier this month. “Obviously, people like a strong and powerful Country, with the best economy, EVER!”

Trump cited no evidence for his claim, because there isn’t any. And in the next few months, he will be desperate to improve those poll numbers. Ants beware.

Comment:   "Disingenuous". Now that's a very polite word for "lying SOB".

Comments

  • JD_co
    Good stuff, OJ.

    Those spiders have the edge - though like Trump, they are creepy little things, at least they aren't corrupt or accused of pedophilia.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    I dunno about pedophilia... some of them eat their young... does that count?
  • DrVenture
    So, hypothetically if the choice is between sharing a small apartment with a cockroach, or trump?

    Tough, tough choices. Funny stuff @Old_Joe
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    @JD_co, @DRVenture-
    Yeah, thanks. Gotta have a little fun once in a while or we'd go completely nuts with all of this crap.
  • DrVenture
    Old_Joe said:

    I dunno about pedophilia... some of them eat their young... does that count?

    We don't actually know how many of his spawn he may have consumed. We only know how many SHOULD have been consumed. That answer is, at a minimum, four.

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