Your math is still off.
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Every single president has ups and downs. The difference between Trump and almost everyone else since they started tracking approval ratings is that his never cracked 50%. Everyone else’s fluctuated depending on how they were doing and how people perceived what they were doing. But not Trump. He never once tried to reach out to the rest of the country. He rarely would compromise on his agenda and he did not even attempt to work on compromises (all while endlessly whinging about how the DEMOCRAT party was not willing to compromise). Even without the stupid pandemic, he was going to end up with a shitty, lopsided economy that saw the wealth gap continue to grow. He is literally the worst president we’ve had (yes, even worse than Andrew Johnson), and people who still support him are blinded by a ridiculous cult of personality. They are driving the country off the fucking cliff and they don’t’ even give a shit. They are amazingly immune to even the tiniest bit of fucking reality and logic. On top of all that, HE LITERALLY INSTIGATED AN INSURRECTION AGAINST OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS… And YET there are STILL people showing up here, blathering on about both sides, and how he’s not so bad, and HOW HALF THE FUCKING COUNTRY VOTED FOR HIM WHEN THAT IS VERY MUCH A WHOLE ASS LIE!!!
GAWD…
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How do you figure 45.5 < 41?
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Anything to prove that the country is really more than half full of reactionary shit heads that we should cater to… /s
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And 73M is << 0.5 x 330M
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Yes. It is. because not all states have the same populations. People are not evenly distributed.
I’m really sorry, I was completely wrong. Only 46.8% support Trump. Not half. My apologies for being so disingenuous in saying “half”, then correcting to saying “almost half” when in fact it was only 46.8% of Americans. Please forgive me.
And it was 69% at it’s highest. Carter’s was 75% at it’s highest.
George W. Bush’s highest was 90%, the highest of any president. Which is why I used averages instead of “highest” approvals. As I think it’s safe to say 90% of Americans didn’t love Bush (I personally think he was one of the worst). But again presidential approval over the years hovers around 50%. I think the divide is largely created by the media on purpose.
As Mindysan33 pointed out right away, 46.8% of voters. Not everyone in the country votes, in fact most don’t. And the Republicans have worked very hard to make sure the portion that does is the one that skews toward them anyway. So it’s not a just a question of rounding like you indignantly suggest, you’re still wrong, for the same reason she said in the first place.
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If by media you mean Fox News and other right-wing shithead outlets, then you are partly correct.
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Let’s not forget that even with the extra 20 million voters this past year, still around half of the voting population votes, so that means his support is ACTUALLY more like a quarter of the population.
Which is irrelevant, because IT WAS NEVER ALWAYS 90%. My entire point is that TRUMP NEVER GOT ABOVE 50% THE ENTIRE TIME HE WAS IN OFFICE.
So, AGAIN. Stop gaslighting.
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You know the Pedant Pendant Award was last month, right?
Seriously, half of us voted.
Well, I say half…
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Again, the thing that makes Trump’s approval rating so unusual is that even on the very best day of his Presidency he was never able to convince more than half of Americans that he was doing a competent job.
Every President before and since Trump had good days and bad days, some with more good or more bad days than others.
Trump is unique in that he never had a single good day.
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I don’t care to look it up, but I could see it being that high, shortly after 9/11.
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That same day, or the immediate period following it? Perhaps.
I read it as 85% of PEOPLE POLLED, which still is a skewed stat.
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Around 88% circa September 12, 2001. But that had virtually nothing to do with anything Bush said or did, it’s just normal for a country to rally around their political leaders in a time of crisis like that. All Bush had to do was make a few speeches about standing together and avoid publicly shitting on an American flag.
Which makes it all the more incredible that a President who saw as many crises as Trump never got the squiggly line above 50% even for a moment. I guess it doesn’t work when you’re the one actively causing the crisis.
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I assume nobody gave him the graph, because I’m sure he had his sharpie ready to go.
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Don’t smoke. But yeah, that was from Gallup Poll on Sept. 25th 2001
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