A low approval rating will not cause the US president to hang his head in shame. He\u2019s more likely to dig in<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll know the famous quote, bastardised<\/a> from a 1926 column<\/a> by the Baltimore journalist HL Mencken, that \u201cNo one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.\u201d The rest of the quote, less often cited, is: \u201cNor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.\u201d It\u2019s hard to disagree when you look at the polls. Because, despite everything, more than a third of Americans continue to think Donald Trump is doing a great job.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying all is rosy for Trump: a new NBC News poll<\/a> has found Trump\u2019s popularity has plummeted to a second-term low. The cost of living in the US is rocketing and the country is embroiled in an immoral and economically disastrous war: two-thirds of Americans<\/a> say the country is on the wrong path. But 37% still approve of Trump\u2019s overall performance. That\u2019s down from 42% in December but it\u2019s still pretty damn high considering the US is being led by an adjudicated sexual predator who has started wars with both Iran and the pope recently, while making life at home harder. Trump can\u2019t be blamed for everything, but there is evidence<\/a> his policies have negatively affected growth, jobs and inflation.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A low approval rating will not cause the US president to hang his head in shame. He\u2019s more likely to dig in You\u2019ll know the famous quote, bastardised from a 1926 column by the Baltimore journalist HL Mencken, that \u201cNo one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.\u201d The rest of the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}