***First Quarter Grades for President Trump’s Team

[Oldcarpy2]

Meanwhile, Fox News poll says ordinary folk give Trump an underwater rating.

Trump spits his dummy and throws toys out of his pram:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...38998.html

[Byrd]

Not directly, not like he opened a can of it and released it.

But I dont think his rhetoric or talk is helpful.  His statements that vaccines cause autism, which is 100% false, doesn't help the ill-educated masses.  Same with his position on flouride.

When he's in the position he's in, saying the horsesh*t he is, doesnt help improve the health of communities around the country.

Hence my low grade.

Let's not forget that he's advising Vitamin A for measles (https://www.yahoo.com/news/after-rfk-jr-...53603.html) which has caused some kids to end up in the hospital with liver problems.

I read (but can't find now) that this belief caused him to delay sending extra shipments of the vaccine to Texas.

[chivo]

The fact that people keep promoting the idea that "vaccines are good" therefore implying that big pharma is not corrupt and criminal only shows how we live in a society in which sane people are a minority.
Pharmaceutical multinational corporations have been killing and maiming people legally since the early 1900. We are in 2025. It should be obvious by now?
Modern allopathic medicine practice is a scam, a drug dealing business really, just legal and with paperwork.

[xpert11]

I give the key players in the Trump administration an F across the board. Below are samples to support my stance.

Lutnick, Trump's Secretary of Commerce, is convinced the key to manufacturing iPhones in the U.S. is workers inserting screws into those devices at the factory. 

Hegseth is content with sharing classified military operations details on Signal. He and Vance are behind Trump's desire to annexe Greenland. It is like somebody added social media to the 1840s U.S. expansionist mindset.

Rubio is a Trump lackey, so he doesn't question his boss's lunatic Gaza Plan.

[putnam6]

I give the key players in the Trump administration an F across the board. Below are samples to support my stance.

Lutnick, Trump's Secretary of Commerce, is convinced the key to manufacturing iPhones in the U.S. is workers inserting screws into those devices at the factory. 

Hegseth is content with sharing classified military operations details on Signal. He and Vance are behind Trump's desire to annexe Greenland. It is like somebody added social media to the 1840s U.S. expansionist mindset.

Rubio is a Trump lackey, so he doesn't question his boss's lunatic Gaza Plan.

Sounds fair...

[putnam6]

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_...rack_apr21

Monday, April 21, 2025
Forty-six percent (46%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending April 17, 2025.

For perspective, this poll "right direction" poll rarely goes past 49%, though Trump had it there earlier.

46% at this stage is remarkably solid....

[Oldcarpy2]

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_...rack_apr21

Monday, April 21, 2025
Forty-six percent (46%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending April 17, 2025.

For perspective, this poll "right direction" poll rarely goes past 49%, though Trump had it there earlier.

46% at this stage is remarkably solid....

How many folk do Rasmussen ask?

[putnam6]

How many folk do Rasmussen ask?

How to tell me you didn't read the link without saying specifically saying you didn't read the link 

 

The national telephone survey of 1,755 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports from April 13-17, 2025. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
 
Rasmussen Reports is the only nationally recognized public opinion firm that still tracks President Trump's job approval ratings on a daily basis.
Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).
Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 300 likely voters per night and reported on a five-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis
 


 

[Oldcarpy2]

How to tell me you didn't read the link without saying specifically saying you didn't read the link 

 

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_...rack_apr25

OK.

"The latest figures include 32% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (see trends)".

Latest figures. Not your earlier ones.

My link is to your pollsters Trump approval rating, yours is to the Country heading in the right direction.

[putnam6]

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_...rack_apr25

OK.

"The latest figures include 32% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (see trends)".

Latest figures. Not your earlier ones.

My link is to your pollsters Trump approval rating, yours is to the Country heading in the right direction.

Im familiar with the distinction. 

The right direction is a weekly poll. Want to bet it's higher or lower next week? 

I use the "right direction" poll because AGAIN, historically it rarely hits 49%, Americans never think we are headed in the right direction, (IIRC last time was right after 9/11).

Ergo when it's it's just at 46% after all the wussified whinging, whining and wailing, just a 3% below that bellwether indicates a solid core is tired of the paranoid panicked pleas from those terrified and traumatized by Trump's tariffs and other shenanigans. 

https://www.newsweek.com/americans-think...ll-2031393

=whiteDonald Trump's Favorability Rating Is Positive for First Time EverBy [url=javascript:void(0);]Andrew Stanton[/url]
Weekend Staff Writer
Asurvey from conservative-leaning pollster Rasmussen Reports showed a plurality of Americans believing the country is on the right track for the first time in two decades this week.
 
Rasmussen, which is generally viewed as having a conservative slant, released a poll showing that a plurality of Americans believe the country is on the right track. The pollster noted none of their polls in the past 20 years have seen a majority of respondents hold this belief.
 
"For the first time in over 20 years of polling, Right Direction EXCEEDS Wrong Track today," Mark Mitchell, a Rasmussen pollster, wrote in a post to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
The poll found 47 percent of Americans thought the country was on the right track compared to 46 percent that thought it was going in the wrong direction. This is within the poll's margin of error of 3 percentage points.

FWIW, 47% is incredibly high in such a divided country in the daily approval poll; Biden routinely sank to the low 40s in the same poll. 
 

Biden Approval Declines Again in JuneMonday, July 03, 2023
When tracking President Biden’s job approval people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Biden’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
The president earned a monthly job approval of 44% in June, down one point from May. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapproved of his job performance in June, unchanged from May. Biden’s approval was in the low 40s through the first part of 2022

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 32% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (see trends)