The Inevitable New The Inevitable Trump Mocking Thread

AUGUST 26, 2019
What happens when a bunch of unpopular leaders greet Trump?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
By any measurement, President Trump is the strongest “trunk in the forest,” as my late father used to say.

From President Emmanuel Macron to Chancellor Angela Merkel to PM Justin Trudeau, most current national leaders would love to have his approval ratings.

Justin Fox made this point over the weekend:

Donald Trump is an unpopular president. According to the Real Clear Politics polling average as of Friday afternoon, only 43.3% of Americans approve of his performance. FiveThirtyEight, which weights polls by quality, sample size and partisan lean, puts the average at 41.6%.

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But as the president meets with leaders of the other G7 countries in the French resort city of Biarritz this weekend, he can take solace in the fact that he’s more popular than almost all of his peers.

The lone exception seems to be Japanese premier Shinzo Abe, whose cabinet’s approval rating is 48.8% (to only 35% disapproval) in the Japan Political Pulse poll aggregator maintained by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.

Only 32% of Germans polled for broadcaster ARD a few weeks ago said they were satisfied with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government.

In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval rating was 41% in one recent poll and 39% in another (and in the second poll, by Ipsos, only 33% agreed that he “has done a good job and deserves to be re-elected”)...

Then there is French President Emmanuel Macron, the one other more or less directly elected head of state (as opposed to leader of a parliamentary government) coming to Biarritz.

In so many ways, he’s the diametric opposite of Trump: young, cosmopolitan, well-spoken, technocratic. He’s the least popular of the lot, with a 28% approval rating in the most recent poll listed by the diligent editors of the “Opinion polling on the Emmanuel Macron presidency” Wikipedia page and 22% percent in the one before that.

So what does it mean?

At first glance, it means nothing to U.S. voters, because the media focus will be on the blunt Trump and his personality.

Inside the meetings, Trump's political strength will work for him. Politicians always look up to the guy with higher approval ratings. They want to be popular, after all.

Let's hope that the other leaders also learn that the U.S. economy is doing better because of "growth-oriented" policies that encourage investment.
 
Yes, sure. China has surrendered in the trade war... Gotcha...

That's about as likely as Mexico paying for the wall. But remember - China pays the tariffs - except, I guess at Christmas, when we pay it.

Con-enomics. Ask Iz, he'll explain it to you, Sterno.

What's the 18 month growth in the Dow since the tax cuts?
How about the 1 year?
Oh... how about that.
 
Friesland said:
Yes, sure. China has surrendered in the trade war... Gotcha...

That's about as likely as Mexico paying for the wall. But remember - China pays the tariffs - except, I guess at Christmas, when we pay it.

Con-enomics. Ask Iz, he'll explain it to you, Sterno.

What's the 18 month growth in the Dow since the tax cuts?
How about the 1 year?
Oh... how about that.
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Iz probably thinks Mexico paid for the wall and China pays the tariffs. He has a little trouble with this stuff...
I think America is great now. Coal mines re-opened. National unity. A strongly growing economy. Manufacturing moving back here.
I saw it on Fox.
 
messy said:
Iz probably thinks Mexico paid for the wall and China pays the tariffs. He has a little trouble with this stuff...
I think America is great now. Coal mines re-opened. National unity. A strongly growing economy. Manufacturing moving back here.
I saw it on Fox.
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You do have a job?
 
Sheriff Joe said:
AUGUST 26, 2019
What happens when a bunch of unpopular leaders greet Trump?
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
By any measurement, President Trump is the strongest “trunk in the forest,” as my late father used to say.

From President Emmanuel Macron to Chancellor Angela Merkel to PM Justin Trudeau, most current national leaders would love to have his approval ratings.

Justin Fox made this point over the weekend:

Donald Trump is an unpopular president. According to the Real Clear Politics polling average as of Friday afternoon, only 43.3% of Americans approve of his performance. FiveThirtyEight, which weights polls by quality, sample size and partisan lean, puts the average at 41.6%.

215618_5_.png
But as the president meets with leaders of the other G7 countries in the French resort city of Biarritz this weekend, he can take solace in the fact that he’s more popular than almost all of his peers.

The lone exception seems to be Japanese premier Shinzo Abe, whose cabinet’s approval rating is 48.8% (to only 35% disapproval) in the Japan Political Pulse poll aggregator maintained by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.

Only 32% of Germans polled for broadcaster ARD a few weeks ago said they were satisfied with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government.

In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval rating was 41% in one recent poll and 39% in another (and in the second poll, by Ipsos, only 33% agreed that he “has done a good job and deserves to be re-elected”)...

Then there is French President Emmanuel Macron, the one other more or less directly elected head of state (as opposed to leader of a parliamentary government) coming to Biarritz.

In so many ways, he’s the diametric opposite of Trump: young, cosmopolitan, well-spoken, technocratic. He’s the least popular of the lot, with a 28% approval rating in the most recent poll listed by the diligent editors of the “Opinion polling on the Emmanuel Macron presidency” Wikipedia page and 22% percent in the one before that.

So what does it mean?

At first glance, it means nothing to U.S. voters, because the media focus will be on the blunt Trump and his personality.

Inside the meetings, Trump's political strength will work for him. Politicians always look up to the guy with higher approval ratings. They want to be popular, after all.

Let's hope that the other leaders also learn that the U.S. economy is doing better because of "growth-oriented" policies that encourage investment.
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Hilarious, is an approval of under 40% strong?
 
T supposedly suggested that dropping nuclear bombs in hurricanes could save the USA from much damage. The best evidence that he said it is that he now denies it.

Back in 2015 when he was still sane (or at least less insane), t had this to say about nuclear energy --

Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.​
 
Bruddah IZ said:
They ought to post a sign that says DON’T FEED THE ANIMALS
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Too late. Barn door's open... too late for QE9, too late for trade truce. Shockingly, Don the Con has blundered into a recession. Who could have guessed.

It's all over save the revised numbers. Start cutting your expenses now kiddos.
 
Friesland said:
Too late. Barn door's open... too late for QE9, too late for trade truce. Shockingly, Don the Con has blundered into a recession. Who could have guessed.

It's all over save the revised numbers. Start cutting your expenses now kiddos.
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The Barn door has been open for 200 plus years Spigot boy. But it only took six years to nearly double the countries debt.
 
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