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Just a reminder of how trump's presidency went, since many people have forgotten. This article is from exactly 7 years ago.

Trump’s job approval rating at the 6-month mark is lower than eight of the past nine presidents’. He’s tied with Gerald Ford, who had taken over from Richard Nixon, who had fled Washington in the wake of the Watergate scandal and whom Ford, very controversially, pardoned.

Despite his braggadocio, Trump has a pittance of legislative accomplishments to tout. Health care appears to be dead in the water – and even Trump can’t seem to decide what the right next step should be. There is currently zero new funding for Trump’s much-touted border wall. Tax reform still in its infant stage, with few details added to the first, basic proposal. Infrastructure proposals are in limbo. There is no announced strategy on the raising of the debt ceiling. And on and on and on.

A special counsel was appointed and is investigating Russia’s attempts to meddle in the 2016 election and the possibility that members of the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to aid his campaign. That investigation has triggered a major lawyering-up of all the major players – including several Trump family members – and a series of ever-changing stories about who said what and when.

Just 36% of people approve of the job Trump is doing, via a Washington Post-ABC News poll released over the weekend, while 58% disapprove. More troubling for Trump (and his party) is the fact that the intensity is all on the anti-Trump side; 48% strongly disapprove of how Trump is doing the job while just 25% strongly approve.

Fucking vote.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was a daily assault on the rational mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It numbed everyone to the point where the majority of everyone just ignores politics now. After a president like that, then to switch to an 80 year old man .... the office of president of the Untied States of Anarchy no longer matters any more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If only it were anarchy, sigh.