Trump is now the lowest rated president within his first year, in American history!

[miketx]

Trump setting records for low presidential approval

...and his disapproval rating continues to set new records every week.

Hes PINO not POTUS.... therefore not really part of American Presidential history.

It's sad he has any approval at all -- people still think he's a POTUS when all we really have is PINO.

You're trying so hard with that PINO shit, it's already redundant

What's really sad about them is the media has to supply them with these elementary school labels as they cannot come up with any on their own.

 

[nat4900]

The funniest thing of all is that the ones decrying his "LOW APPROVAL RATES" have an approval rating that is about one fourth of his, and the dimshit party's approval rate is less than that.

This right wing idiot above, "thinks" that pollsters are asking respondents "how would you rate yourself?"

 

[usmbguest5318]

Trump setting records for low presidential approval

...and his disapproval rating continues to set new records every week.

From the article:

Plunging into undesirably uncharted territory, Trump is setting records with his dismally low approval ratings, including the lowest mark ever for a president in his first year. In fact, with four months left in the year, Trump has already spent more time under 40 percent than any other first-year president.

Trump likes his superlatives. I suppose seeing as he surely is well aware he's not going to achieve the superlative of most popular, he may as well go for the one of least popular. And, truly, that is a record he is better suited than any president to obtain.

Looking at Trump's tenure and campaign activities, I'm reminded of James Buchanan's presidency (1857 - 1861).

In antebellum America, Democrats like Buchanan believed in low taxes, limited government, white supremacy, and the South’s right to perpetuate its “peculiar institution.” Over the preceding quarter-century, sectional conflicts had increasingly poisoned national politics. Antislavery sentiment in the North had grown from a fringe religious movement to a matter of mainstream concern and the central organizing principle of a new political party, the Republicans. Meanwhile, the South’s rationale for racist human bondage mutated from amoral practicality to paranoid fanaticism.

The political debate had turned violent before Buchanan took office. Open warfare had already raged for three years between abolitionist and proslavery settlers in “Bleeding Kansas.” Meanwhile, in the Capitol, a southern Congressman savagely bludgeoned an abolitionist Republican on the Senate floor.

Determined to end the sectional conflict, Buchanan called on an old friend and fellow Democrat, Chief Justice Roger Taney. Working behind the scenes, the president pressured Taney and two other justices to secure an expansive Supreme Court ruling in the pending Dred Scott case to “speedily and finally settle” the political question of slavery.

The pliant justices happily obliged. [So much for judicial independence and separation of powers.] In a 7–2 decision, the SCOTUS denied Dred Scott’s individual claim to freedom, not on the merits of the case, but by redefining black people as subhuman noncitizens: “beings of an inferior order… with no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Moreover, by ruling the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional, the court converted northern territories long designated as “free soil” into potential slave states.

Though thrilled  by the ruling, Buchanan had badly miscalculated. Instead of demoralizing his political opponents, the hideous miscarriage of justice energized antislavery northerners and grew Republican ranks. Buchanan’s constant appeasement of the South alienated northern Democrats, prompting a power struggle between him and his party’s strongest leader in Congress, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois. That spat split the Democratic ticket in several states, which helped hand the House and Senate to Republicans in the 1858 midterm elections. To compound the blunder, Buchanan loyalists lost intraparty battles everywhere except in his home state of Pennsylvania. Democrats remained a strong minority in Congress, but paid allegiance now to Douglas, not the White House.

Defanged and disheartened, Buchanan declined to run for a second term. [I doubt Trump has enough self-respect to do that.] During the election of 1860, he watched helplessly as his party split into northern and southern factions. Democrats in Dixie flatly vowed to secede if Abraham Lincoln won.

Buchanan did nothing to stop them. Winfield Scott, the Army’s Commanding General, urged the president to raise troops for deployment in the South, both to protect federal assets and to discourage secession. Buchanan refused. In December 1860  --  after the Electoral College affirmed Lincoln’s election --  southern states started seceding. Belatedly, Buchanan briefly considered sending some reinforcements south, but he let his Secretary of War -- John Floyd of Virginia  --  talk him out of it. A few days later, Floyd resigned to join his home state in secession and treason.​

I'm also reminded to a lesser degree of:

• Rutherford B. Hayes who with the Compromise of 1877 transformed the GOP into the party of big business, thereby, from that point until the late 20th century, leaving effectively disenfranchised minorities with no place to turn. The Democrats were inveterate racists and the GOP, though not nearly as white supremacist, was interested in money not morals, which is not at all hard to see as the 1870s marked the start of the Gilded Age.
• Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge who invented the notion of tax cuts for the rich. They implemented them, the country boomed and then crashed like never before or since. Hoover presided over the Great Depression's outset, but Harding and Coolidge caused it. (In 1927, 98% of the country paid no federal income tax.)
  
  There is no question that the Coolidge presidency “was a period of high prosperity and stable economic growth. An enormous construction boom rebuilt American cities. The automobile reshaped American life. The bull market in stocks mirrored soaring American optimism about the future." By the end of Coolidge’s presidency the real market fundamentals were strong. Productivity and employment were high. Real income rose 3.4 percent per year from 1923-1929. Unemployment was 3.3 percent (with a low of 1.8 percent in 1926). Factory payrolls were up. Production between 1920 and 1929 grew 3.1 percent annually. Total factor productivity grew 3.7 percent. Corporate profits and dividends were at record high levels. The gross national product increased in real terms from 296.22 in 1928 to 315.69 in 1929. Indeed, 1929 was the best year ever for the U.S. economy.
  
  The problem with Harding's and later Coolidge's policies isn't their "roar" -- it wasn't called the Roaring Twenties for nothing -- but rather the subsequent decade of "stillness," the root economic substance of which, notwithstanding intermittent "murmurs" catalyzed by Keynesian 8% growth rates in the 1930s, was only abated in earnest by WWII.

Trump's not made it through his first year yet, so it's likely too soon to resolve that he's indeed as terrible as the men above mentioned; however, there's enough similarity between the national "psyche" and economy those former POTUSes experienced and those which we today observe that a leader must possess a level of acumen and adroitness that, ruefully, Trump shows no indications of having.

 

[Faun]

So does the stock market.

Typical rightard...

Jeer Obama ...

Cheer Trump ...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Trump is now the lowest rated president within his first year, in American history!"

One of the many negative consequences of minority government.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

trump has ONLY one choice left to raise his "approval ratings"....START A WAR !!!

Actually, the only one choice Trump has left to raise his "approval ratings" is to resign – something a majority of Americans would approve of.