Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for "election fraud."

What a giant mango baby

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      I bet it’s the same millionaire paying off the protestors! Elon will get him one day…

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    16·
    7 days ago

    Anything that Trump doesn’t like is either done by paid protesters or considered political acts.

    But his cultists will accuse anyone else of being brainwashed.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    Article says Trump believes he has a 99.9% approval rating on the border issues…

    He is delusional

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    119·
    8 days ago

    President Donald Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for “election fraud.”

    Responding to the polls, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday: “They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.”

    It’s not an election, and I hurt myself reading that deeply moronic quote. How is this man in charge of anything?

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        22·
        8 days ago

        I think of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, masters of aimlessness, crisis and noise, firing all those experienced people who have been quietly and competently managing government departments for years or decades. This only looks like progress to fools.

        • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
          13·
          8 days ago

          I mean, he is doing what he’s said he would and running the country like a business. Which often results in paying yourself a huge bonus and making a lot of experienced workers redundant.

          Unfortunately all of his past businesses have failed horribly.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        8 days ago

        That was really a master class, I haven’t seen one of those in awhile. He used the story technique to make you feel dumb for falling for these busy looking leaders. It was dramatic in comparison. I’m seriously impressed.

        So you’re completely correct. Progressives and Democrats, in general, are boring. Magas go around with coal burning trucks, racist outbursts, laws that usually go after the “other.” How do the progressives and democrats go after that sweet, sweet, comparison story without looking like dipshits.

        • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
          4·
          8 days ago

          Feel like that should be a federal offense, zero excuse why POTUS should ever publish a misspelled word with the resources at their disposal.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
      71·
      8 days ago

      after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse.

      Did he admit to lying and cheating there?

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
        4·
        8 days ago

        Not sure whether you’re joking, but no, the subject of “loose [sic] a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying” is “They” from the beginning of the sentence. Surprisingly, the whole thing hangs together grammatically.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    64·
    8 days ago

    I have investigated. My conclusion is: Your low approval rating is because you are a toad.

    My consultancy rate is very reasonable at three million dollars per second. You owe me nine million dollars. Sign here, please.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
    60·
    8 days ago

    I don’t think Trump ever developed a theory of mind when he was a child.

    “Theory of Mind” is the developmental change where you realize that other people know things that you don’t know, and you know things that other people don’t know. It usually shows up before you turn five, kind of concurrent with a solid grasp on language. But I don’t think he ever got it.

    So he doesn’t understand how people could know words that he doesn’t know (“groceries”), he doesn’t understand how people could understand the importance of things he doesn’t understand the importance of (pretty much every government agency), he doesn’t see any reason for social supports (because, see, he doesn’t need them). And, paired with his obvious narcissism, since he loves himself, he is psychologically unable to conceive of the idea that other people could exist who don’t love him.

    Under this framework, he can never be wrong, because he literally knows all the things (the hurricane path map). He can never have done anything wrong, because he knows what’s best. And he can never have broken any promises, because he knew what would happen and made the choice on purpose.

    But he’s also been around for long enough to prove all of that untrue, so he’s had to carve out little exceptions for himself: specifically, that (1) everyone who doesn’t like him isn’t really a person, they’re actually evil and bad and nobody likes them (because he doesn’t); (2) everyone who knows something he doesn’t is either keeping secrets or a super-genius, depending on whether he likes that thing or not; and (3) when his actions have negative consequences that actually affect him, it’s because of one of those evil not-people plotting against him.

    So, anyway, when you call Trump a toddler, you’re actually giving him a few extra years of credit that he hasn’t earned.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 days ago

        I mean, it depends on whether you mean “can say some words” or “can actually carry on a conversation.” The speech thing can vary pretty widely; I’ve got an 8-year-old who was speaking in complete sentences by, like, 20 months, and an almost-3-year-old who was speech delayed and is really only just grasping the idea of expressing his preferences to us with words. Our other two were in between those two extremes.

        You’re not wrong, though. In any case, he is not fully-developed as a human adult.