With Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin standing behind him, U.S. President Donald Trump smiles while listening to remarks before signing an executive order making it easier for Americans to buy bare-bones health insurance plans and circumvent Obamacare rules at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Trump threw a fit after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman called him a racist, and called himself your favorite president.
Trump went off over being called a racista and deemed himself your favorite president:
Other presidents have had individual moments where their approval rating is lower than Trump’s, but no president in the history public opinion polling failed to achieve a 50% approval rating in an objective scientific poll until Donald Trump. A majority of the country has never approved of Trump, not as a candidate, and not as a president. Trump’s approval rating has risen with Republicans after racism week at the White House, but one should expect his overall approval with the rest of the country to drop.
Trump is desperate to motivate his base and divide the country as much as possible because, at heart, he knows that he is not popular. He needs to fragment the country and turn the opposition against each other to have a chance of winning.
While columnists like Friedman worry that Trump could win reelection with his racism, the president is making a classic mistake. He has unveiled his big campaign strategy too early. People tend to tune Trump out the more he obsesses over the same topics. Trump is peaking too soon, and one should expect a much different Democratic debate that will be focused on unifying the country to beat this president.
Trump is far from America’s favorite living president. That title belongs to Barack Obama.
Trump is nothing more a pretender who is trying to cover contempt with faux popularity.
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