Trump is more popular than most NATO country leaders

Catholic Crusader

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Arthur Brain

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Make up your mind you Limey hypocrite. You can't excuse one for being old and attack the other. You can't berate one and then get your panties in a wad when I berate the other. If you can't take it don't dish it out sissy-boy.

You see, you choose the game and I can play. You want top play nice? I can too. You want to use snotty innuendo and goofy pics? I can play right along too.

Don't you recognize your own hypocrisy? Maybe I gave you too much credit that you might figure it out.



Thats what you dad said when his hooker got pregnant with you

Dude, you've been strung out since you first joined here. You've got some chip on your shoulder that comes from who knows where but you've flamed out countless times on here and you are simply unhinged. Is the latter thing you've fired at anna in any way remotely a Christian or mature thing to say to anybody? Is that edifying behaviour on your part?

You are pathetic. Carry on with your drone Trump worship, it's all you're any "good" at.
 

Catholic Crusader

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Let's talk about the queen and forget this list that says why Trump is the greatest president ever in his first two years::
  • US Embassy moved to Jerusalem by President Donald J Trump
  • Trump secures release of American Prisoners from North Korea
  • Trump Negotiates Peace between North and South Korea
  • Trump Signs Order Calling for Work Requirements for Welfare Programs
  • HISTORIC: Trump Nominates First Woman for Head of CIA
  • Feds collect record taxes in first month under Trump’s tax cuts; runs surplus in January
  • Trump signs sweeping two-year budget deal – MILITARY FUNDED
  • Trump proposes biggest civil service change in 40 years – ‘Hire the best and fire the worst’
  • Trump signs bipartisan bill to combat synthetic opioids
  • Trump Shrinks Federal Bureaucracy by 16000
  • President Trump set a record for lifetime appointed judges in 2017
  • Trump Signed 96 Laws In 2017
  • Trump Administration Set to Roll Back $900 Million in Obama-Era Offshore Drilling Regulations
  • U.S. Imposes Sanctions on 52 People and Entities for Abuse and Corruption
  • Individual Mandate of Obamacare REPEALED
  • Senate Passes Historic Sweeping Tax Reform
  • Climate Change REMOVED from ‘Threat List’
  • Trump Admin is a Deregulation Machine: Eliminating 22:1
  • Trump signs $700 billion defense bill, gives troops largest pay raise in 7 years
  • New Space Policy Directive Calls for Human Expansion Across Solar System
  • Trump Declares Jerusalem the Capital of Israel
  • Senate Passes Sweeping Tax Reform – 20% Corporate rate – Largest in 31 Years.
  • Trump Shuts Down CIA funding of Syrian Rebels
  • House Passes Tax Bill in Major Step Toward Overhaul
  • Senate Passes Budget Resolution Clearing the Way to pass Tax Reform with a Simple Majority
  • Trump’s HHS defines life as beginning at conception
  • President Trump Declassifies and Releases JFK Files
  • Iran Deal: DECERTIFIED
  • Trump: ‘We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values’
  • Trump administration abandons the Obama-era clean power plan aimed at reducing global warming
  • School Choice tops the list of Priorities
  • U.S. Education Department Grants Trump Signs Healthcare Order, Expands Choice and Access through associations
  • US and Israel withdraw from UNESCO citing “anti-Israel bias”
  • Trump has written 46 Executive Orders
  • Treasury Department to target companies doing business with North Korea
  • Trump has signed 53 bills into law
  • Trump Signs Order Rolling Back
  • Environmental Rules on Infrastructure
  • 11,000 government jobs slashed under Trump – downsizing government
  • UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea
  • Senate confirms 65 Trump nominees for various positions
  • U.S. Small Business Administration opens assistance center
  • 800 Obama regulations cut – Saved over $200 billion
  • EPA’s Pruitt moves to roll back over 30 environmental regulations in record time
  • Cut the White House budget – Saved taxpayers $22 million
  • Haley Tells Congress US Assuming More Assertive Role at UN
  • Trump’s EPA To Repeal Obama’s ‘Waters Of The US’ Rule
  • Eliminated 1200 man hours of wasteful paperwork requirements including Y2K preparedness
  • President Trump Announces “Massive Permit Reform” Push
  • Trump Lays Out Plan to Privatize Air
  • Traffic Control System
  • Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord
  • Treasury to call for rolling back banking regulations
  • Trump orders a Voter Fraud
  • Commission to investigate 2016 election
  • Fired corrupt and incompetent FBI Director James Comey
  • HHS to Rescind Birth Control Mandate in Obamacare
  • Appointed conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
  • Ben Carson Finds $500 Billion In Errors during Audit of Obama HUD
  • President Trump’s executive order will undo Obama’s Clean Power Plan rule
  • U.S. Will have Free but Fair and Balanced Trade: Mnuchin
  • Executive order to reduce operating costs of the Federal Government
  • Fired all 46 attorney generals hired by Obama
  • Purging the State Department of Obama loyalists
  • Fixing lobbying laws – 5 year lobbying ban on White House officials
  • Put a regulatory freeze on all federal agencies
  • Cutting regulations in government agencies (add 1, take out 2)
  • 45th PRESIDENT of the United States of America, DONALD J. TRUMP Department of Justice
  • Trump DOJ Sues California For Interference With Immigration Enforcement
  • DOJ Halts Obama’s Operation Chokepoint, Which Targeted Firearm Dealers
  • More than 1,000 arrests in sex trafficking operation
  • Four charged with leaks from Trump administration
  • Jeff Sessions announces new crackdown on ‘so-called’ sanctuary cities
  • Justice Department announces takedown of AlphaBay, the largest dark web market
  • Sessions’s New Civil-Forfeiture Rules 400 medical professionals charged in largest health care fraud takedown
  • The Department of Justice Stands by Texas’s Voter ID Law
  • Charges: Sex traffickers took hundreds from Thailand to US
  • AG Sessions is bringing back the harsher sentences for drug dealers
  • Sex Trafficking Arrests Soar Under Trump; MSM Completely Ignores DHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aid
  • Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe
  • ICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern California
  • End of Year Report: Deportations up 40% – Historically Low Crossings
  • DHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee Admissions
  • Deportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider Net
  • Cutting regulations in government agencies (add 1, take out 2)
  • Veterans Administration Enhancing Veteran Care Act
  • VA seeks partnerships to build and improve health-care facilities
  • VA announces Veterans Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences Act: VA, Ginnie Mae create task force to address mortgage refinancing issues
  • Telemedicine: An important tool for Veterans health
  • Trump Signs Bill to Streamline VA Disability Claims Appeals Process
  • Trump signs ‘Forever GI Bill,’ boosting aid to student vets
  • VA expands Tele-Health access VA fires more than 500 feds under Trump, even before new accountability law Trump signs VA accountability act into law, promises better care for veterans
  • Trump Administration Streamlines Veteran Medical Records
  • White House to launch veterans’ complaint hotline
  • Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at VA
  • Black and Hispanic Unemployment rates hit record low in April
  • Business Investments up 39 Percent Due to Tax Cuts
  • April 2018 Best Month in HISTORY for Budget according to CBO
  • Food Stamp Usage Drops Half Million in Single Month
  • Highest Ever Manufacturer Optimism over 94 Percent
  • Unemployment claims have fallen to a 45-year low
  • Trump Economy Explodes Record Number of Americans Employed Stocks Soar
  • FEB JOBS BLOWOUT 313K GREAT AGAIN Household Net Worth Pushes Further Into Record Territory U.S. Consumer Confidence Is at 17-Year High
  • US homebuilding permits soar to highest level since 2007
  • Economy to grow at 5.4% rate in first quarter
  • Roaring: Economic Optimism Index hits 13-year high, credit to tax cuts
  • U.S. jobless claims drop to near 45-year low
  • Wages jump to highest level since 2009 – up 2.9%
  • U.S. Oil Production Tops 10 Million Barrels A Day, First Time Since 1970
  • Trump Decreases Debt to GDP Ratio – First Time in Over 50 Years!
  • Jobless claims drop to lowest level in nearly 45 years
  • Apple to Invest $350 BILLION in US citing Trump Tax Plan
  • Utilities cutting rates, cite benefits of Trump tax reform
  • Over 100 companies giving ‘Trump Bonuses’ after tax victory
  • Black unemployment rate falls to record low
  • Trump adds 184,000 manufacturing jobs and continues growth trend
  • Manufacturing in the U.S. Just Accelerated to Its Best Year Since 2004
  • Nikki Haley negotiates $285M cut in ‘bloated’ UN budget
  • WIC Welfare Participation Hits 17-Year Low
  • U.S. home sales hit 11-year high Manufacturing Optimism Reaches Another All-Time High – 94.6%
  • Economy adds 228K jobs in November Mining up 28.6% – Leads the Nation in Growth
  • Broadcom will move back to U.S. — and bring tax money with it
  • US private sector added 235,000 jobs in Oct – Beats Expectations
  • Consumer confidence highest level since December 2000
  • Q3 GDP at 3 Percent – Beats Expectations
  • Ivanka Trump creates new World Bank initiative to foster Entrepreneurship among Women
  • Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Surges to 13-Year High
  • 63.1%: Participation Rate Reaches Trump-Era High
  • Unemployment down to 4.2, wages rise .5%
  • New entrants from outside the labor market made up 3.2
  • U.S. Factories Expanding at 13-Year high
  • Dow posting first eight-quarter winning streak in 20 years
  • Home builder confidence at 12-year high
  • Manufacturer confidence at a 20-year high
  • Tech giants pledge millions to Trump initiative
  • Q2 GDP up 3.1%
  • Sales of new U.S. homes rebounded in August
  • Federal Reserve: Household Wealth in America at record high of $1.7 trillion – Rising property values and Financial gain
  • Surging stock market powers U.S. wealth to $96.2 trillion
  • Food Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month Under Trump
  • Median Incomes Climbing for First Time Since 2007
  • Trump has signed a $15 billion relief package for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey
  • Jobless claims drop to 240,000 – hottest streak in 43 years
  • U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in August
  • Recovery Is Finally Trickling Down to Least-Educated Workers
  • U.S. Job Satisfaction Highest Level Since 2005
  • American manufacturing expanded in August at fastest pace in six years
  • Donald Trump Ends Obama Effort to Waive Work Requirements for Welfare Consumer confidence strengthens in August, second-highest level since late 2000
  • President Trump Cuts More US Debt for a Longer Period of Time Than Any President
  • Pennsylvania coal company to open a SECOND coal mine
  • Summer Youth Unemployment Falls, Level Since 1969
  • In Trump era, American corporations are seeing their best earnings in 13 years US trade deficit narrows as exports hit 2-1/2-year high
  • Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months
  • National unemployment rate at 4.3% (lowest it’s been in 16 years)
  • 13,000 jobs being created in WI – largest job announcement in WI history (Foxconn)
  • Black Unemployment, Lowest Level in 17 Years
  • Gas prices at a 12-year low Some states are experiencing their lowest unemployment rates in their histories
  • Trump Announces $200 Million in Apprenticeship Funding
  • U.S. has record 6 million job openings, 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobs
  • CEO confidence highest since 2014 U.S. jobless rate falls to lowest level in 16 years
  • Trump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police officers by giving them Priority and Training
  • Government spending as percentage of GDP down
  • 1000s of jobs being created through pact with Saudi Arabia
  • Executive Order on the Establishment of the American Technology Council USA’s small business confidence is spurring a hiring and spending spree Alibaba Takes First Step To Fulfilling Jack Ma And President Trump’s ‘One Million U.S. Jobs’ Promise Slashing job-killing regulations left and right
  • Creating thousands of more jobs for immigration officers and border patrol
  • Signed a resolution encouraging women in entrepreneurship and STEM
  • Executive ordered all federal agencies to create task forces to cut regulations that hurt the economy
  • US Manufacturing Index at a 33-year high
  • Coal Miners are WINNING. Cut Regulations/Create Jobs/New Plant US Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level Ever Recorded By Gallup State Department
  • Four Months into FY 2018, Refugee Admissions Plunge to Lowest Level in 15 Years
  • US increases vetting and resumes processing of refugees from ‘high-risk’ countries
  • US Delays Payment to UN for Palestinians
  • US Suspends $2 BILLION in security assistance to Pakistan
  • Global Magnitsky Act Signed: Targeting Global Corruption and Human Rights Abuse
  • North Korea Designated as ‘State Sponor of Terrorism’
  • United States Announces a New Strategy on Iran
  • Trump Administration Announces ‘Extreme Vetting’ Plans
  • Trump cuts Obama’s refugee target in half, takes more Christians than Muslims
  • New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
  • UN Security Council unanimously steps up sanctions against North Korea
  • Fewest Monthly Refugee Arrivals in August Since 2002
  • Trump to stop travel from countries that refuse to help Homeland Security
  • America has withdrawn almost $300 million in foreign aid to Egypt
  • Tillerson to shutter war crimes focused State Dept. office: report
  • Rex Tillerson, Mediating Gulf Dispute, Signs Antiterrorism Pact With Qatar Canceled Obama Era special immigration program for foreign entrepreneurs
  • Critical milestone in the global fight against ISIS
  • Tillerson to back up Trump efforts to bolster Eastern Europe against Russia
  • Tillerson Tightens Limits on Filling State Department Jobs
  • Report: Trump plans to cut foreign aid, merge State and USAID
  • US to make at least $285m cut to UN budget
  • Tillerson on North Korea: Military action is ‘an option’
  • It’s a bloodbath at the State Department DHS is planning on denying green cards to legal immigrants if they receive federal or state aid
  • Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe
  • ICE raid hits 77 businesses in Northern California
  • End of Year Report: Deportations up 40% – Historically Low Crossings
  • DHS: Announces New Procedures for Refugee Admissions
  • Deportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider Net
  • DACA Renewals Drop 21%
  • 30-foot concrete slab prototypes erected along border
  • ICE has conducted a MASSIVE raid on sanctuary cities this week – 498 illegal immigrants arrested
  • Trump has updated his travel ban, includes these 8 countries – Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Somalia – NO EXPIRATION DATE
  • Crossing The Border Illegally Is Harder Than It’s Been In 50 Years
  • Withholding Federal Funds from Sanctuary Cities – Must allow ICE access to jails and notify before release
  • $1.6 billion down payment to start building the wall
  • Trump cuts off visas for countries that refuse deported immigrants
  • Rescinded DACA
  • Extreme Vetting’ for some green cards
  • Deportation orders up 31% nationwide under Trump
  • Deportation Orders Up 30%
  • Miami has removed its “sanctuary” status
  • ICE raids targeting families net 650 arrests
  • Denver To ICE: Stop Arresting Illegal Immigrants At Courthouse. ICE To Denver: Not A Chance.
  • 17 Texas sheriffs approved to partner w/ICE
  • ICE chief wants smuggling charges on leaders of sanctuary cities
  • New crackdown on ‘so-called’ sanctuary cities
  • Raids to target teenaged suspected gang members
  • Army Corps starts pre-construction work on border wall
  • Deportations in LA are up 60% alone, 80% jump in illegal targets
  • Feds taking over Texas National Guard mission along border
  • Border Patrol Morale at Highest Level Christian refugees admitted now outnumber Muslim refugees admitted Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall
  • ICE crackdown scaring some families back to Mexico
  • No Sanctuary For Criminals Act – deny federal grants to sanctuary cities – Passed House and Senate
  • Kate’s Law – harsher penalties for previously deported criminals – Passed House and Senate
  • Number of refugees taken in is down 50%
  • Rescinded DAPA
  • Workers install final panel in upgrade of border fence
  • Raids turn Oregon city into ghost town
  • Ending “catch and release” immigration policy
  • Silicon Valley Staffing Firm Charged in H1B Fraud
  • Unshackling ICE – told that they can take action against ALL illegal immigrants – increasing presence in sanctuary cities
  • Department of Defense
  • Top 5 ISIS Leaders Captured
  • Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open
  • US kills 150 ISIS terrorists in Syria airstrike during government shutdown ISIS has lost 98 percent of its territory – due to Trump admin
  • Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit of the Department of Defense
  • U.S.-Backed Forces Capture Raqqa from ISIS
  • ISIS facing imminent collapse in Syria’s Raqqa
  • Gen. Mattis breaks down New Afghanistan Strategy
  • US-backed fighters ‘seize 80% of Raqqa from Islamic State’
  • Mattis sees need for new DOD space programs
  • Trump calls for Increased Military: Senate passes $700 billion defense bill US shares technology with India.
  • Mosul liberated from ISIS
  • Mattis: ‘Annihilation Tactics’ Being Used Against ISIS
  • US, Gulf countries form new group: ‘TFTC’ to stem flow of terror financing
  • NATO weighs new ‘Counter Terrorism Post’ following Trump’s demands
  • ISIS leader ‘admits DEFEAT in Iraq and orders militants to flee
  • Mattis Gives White House Tentative Plan for Rapid Defeat of ISIS
  • James Mattis threatens to ‘moderate’ US backing for Nato over budgets Trade Deals
  • Trump Blocks Chinese Purchase of Qualcomm due to National Security
  • TRUMP SIGNS TARIFF ORDER ON STEEL AND ALUMINUM
  • Trump Slaps 30% Tariffs on Solar Panels imported from China
  • Japan Freezes North Korea’s Assets after Trump’s Visit
  • U.S. Trade Deficit falls to 11-month low Trump Fights for ‘America First’ as 4th Round of NAFTA Negotiations End Crude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding Energy Partnership
  • Trump Blocks China from buying Semi-Conductor company, Lattice
  • Crude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in India-U.S. ties
  • Argentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25 years
  • Trump orders probe of China’s intellectual property practices
  • New memorandum to protect American IPs from China – Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobs
  • Coal exports up 60% China opens rice market for US exports for first time ever
  • U.S. makes final finding rebar exports from Taiwan
  • Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in order to make better trade deals – May terminate
  • United States and Mexico finalize sugar trade deal
  • First U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to Poland
  • Signed an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and various other investment agreements with Saudi Arabia
  • China, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry and natural gas
  • Trump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade agreements – WTO
  • Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber imports
  • Increased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1 billion)
  • China buys more U.S. coal, sends North Korea
  • ans Pacific Partnership (TPP) TERMINATED
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Rusha

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Oh. What possible excuse do you have for being one creepy, nasty little prat for saying what you did regarding anna's parentage? Is it encapsulated and endorsed in the catechism for acting like such?

:think:

Those who are incapable of responding intellectually resort to insult. No true prolife advocate would ever make such a comment.
 

Catholic Crusader

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All you sissies crying and sniveling have yet to disprove this article


Trump is more popular than most NATO country leaders (who think they’re better than he is)
By Raheem Kassam - source link

America is a nation obsessed with political approval ratings like no other. But the U.S. media seems ignorant to the fact that President Trump is currently one of the most popular leaders of a major Western nation in the world today.

Guffaw if you like, but those who are both regarded and regard themselves as “better” leaders have lower numbers than the American president — and while his are trending up, some of theirs are in free fall.

When Barack Obama left the world stage, having commanded a mid-40s average approval rating over the course of his presidency, the New York Times declared German Chancellor Angela Merkel to be the liberal West’s “last defender.”

Less than two years later, after an election upset and an ensuing struggle to form a government, Merkel is horribly bruised and close to being ousted by her coalition partners in Germany. Both for having encouraged mass inward migration to her country, and failing to come up with a solution once the Germans figured out it wasn’t working for them.

More to the point, her approval rating stinks.

In 2013 Merkel attracted an over 70 per cent approval rating — the stuff of presidential dreams. By early 2016 she found herself in the mid 40s, most recently attracting a rating of about 50 per cent.

This is notionally higher than President Trump (42 per cent average). But Trump’s rating fits broadly into the average since Obama took office -- especially when you factor in the backdrop of an often hysterically hostile media, a major FBI investigation, as well as an intransigent opposition party. Merkel has none of these excuses, yet her popularity has plummeted while Trump’s has steadily risen.

Now, 18 months on from the declaration of Merkel’s “flair” and “deftness,” the New York Times published her political obituary, entitled “The Tragedy of Angela Merkel.”

The same trend is evident in France, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

France elected a so-called “centrist” in Emmanuel Macron, who has used his presidency thus far to attempt to balance his own liberalism while trying to withstand mounting (though disorganized) pressure from the political right. According to his numbers, it isn’t working.

While elected just over a year ago with 66 per cent of the French vote, Macron now sits at just 32 per cent.

His grandiose mannerisms, tax hikes, and opposition to European populism have found him on the receiving end of sharp criticism – even from allies in his own movement.

According to French newspaper L’Express, one of his own allies -- a member of the French parliament -- said: “Emmanuel Macron is a capricious prince, despotic and cruel. That does not mean that he cannot be a great prince. He really speaks to the nation… But his daily reactions are worrying.”

If only such exciting descriptions could be made of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, who is only kept ahead against the Labour Party in the polls due to the polarizing, hardline socialist nature of the opposition and the left-wing party’s rife anti-Semitism problem and economic illiteracy.

Taken on her own, she fails to command much support from the British public at all.

The latest Ipsos Mori data gives her just 35 per cent, though it appears she doesn’t see this as a hindrance, as she continues to lecture President Trump over immigration.

The same can be seen closer to the United States.

In March 2017, liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a 54 per cent approval rating, sinking to between 35-40 percent earlier this year, depending on which polls you believe.

In April 2018, Forum Research found the Canadian leader to have just 35 per cent of popular approval, while Rasmussen said it was more like 40 per cent. The latter concurrently placed President Trump at 47 per cent, giving him a sizeable lead over Prime Minister Trudeau.

While the Canadian PM’s fortunes this month received a poll bump up to 50 percent, the impetus seems to be an emulating of President Trump’s positions on trade, having imposed a 25 per cent tariff on U.S. metal, and a 10 per cent tariff on about 250 other goods totaling a value of $12.6 billion.

Ever the big talker about free trade and the principles of globalism, Trudeau seems to have woken up to the reality of governing in the national interest, or at least the political necessity of it.

The truth is despite CNN’s insistence on throwing negatively spun graphics on television insisting on how unpopular President Trump is, his approval is broadly in line, if not higher than, a number of Western leaders in context.

And they don’t have half of the antagonistic arms of government, the media, or political opposition working -- sometimes hand-in-hand -- against them
 

Catholic Crusader

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Gee, I thought we fought a war to get rid of tyrants and kings and queens. Kings and queens are a rotten despicable concept. How interesting that the leftwing baby-killers love a monarch and hate a democratically elected leader.

Well, why am I not surprised.
 

Catholic Crusader

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Banned

Still waiting for you imbeciles to disprove this first post in the thread:


Trump is more popular than most NATO country leaders (who think they’re better than he is)
By Raheem Kassam - source link

America is a nation obsessed with political approval ratings like no other. But the U.S. media seems ignorant to the fact that President Trump is currently one of the most popular leaders of a major Western nation in the world today.

Guffaw if you like, but those who are both regarded and regard themselves as “better” leaders have lower numbers than the American president — and while his are trending up, some of theirs are in free fall.

When Barack Obama left the world stage, having commanded a mid-40s average approval rating over the course of his presidency, the New York Times declared German Chancellor Angela Merkel to be the liberal West’s “last defender.”

Less than two years later, after an election upset and an ensuing struggle to form a government, Merkel is horribly bruised and close to being ousted by her coalition partners in Germany. Both for having encouraged mass inward migration to her country, and failing to come up with a solution once the Germans figured out it wasn’t working for them.

More to the point, her approval rating stinks.

In 2013 Merkel attracted an over 70 per cent approval rating — the stuff of presidential dreams. By early 2016 she found herself in the mid 40s, most recently attracting a rating of about 50 per cent.

This is notionally higher than President Trump (42 per cent average). But Trump’s rating fits broadly into the average since Obama took office -- especially when you factor in the backdrop of an often hysterically hostile media, a major FBI investigation, as well as an intransigent opposition party. Merkel has none of these excuses, yet her popularity has plummeted while Trump’s has steadily risen.

Now, 18 months on from the declaration of Merkel’s “flair” and “deftness,” the New York Times published her political obituary, entitled “The Tragedy of Angela Merkel.”

The same trend is evident in France, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

France elected a so-called “centrist” in Emmanuel Macron, who has used his presidency thus far to attempt to balance his own liberalism while trying to withstand mounting (though disorganized) pressure from the political right. According to his numbers, it isn’t working.

While elected just over a year ago with 66 per cent of the French vote, Macron now sits at just 32 per cent.

His grandiose mannerisms, tax hikes, and opposition to European populism have found him on the receiving end of sharp criticism – even from allies in his own movement.

According to French newspaper L’Express, one of his own allies -- a member of the French parliament -- said: “Emmanuel Macron is a capricious prince, despotic and cruel. That does not mean that he cannot be a great prince. He really speaks to the nation… But his daily reactions are worrying.”

If only such exciting descriptions could be made of Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, who is only kept ahead against the Labour Party in the polls due to the polarizing, hardline socialist nature of the opposition and the left-wing party’s rife anti-Semitism problem and economic illiteracy.

Taken on her own, she fails to command much support from the British public at all.

The latest Ipsos Mori data gives her just 35 per cent, though it appears she doesn’t see this as a hindrance, as she continues to lecture President Trump over immigration.

The same can be seen closer to the United States.

In March 2017, liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a 54 per cent approval rating, sinking to between 35-40 percent earlier this year, depending on which polls you believe.

In April 2018, Forum Research found the Canadian leader to have just 35 per cent of popular approval, while Rasmussen said it was more like 40 per cent. The latter concurrently placed President Trump at 47 per cent, giving him a sizeable lead over Prime Minister Trudeau.

While the Canadian PM’s fortunes this month received a poll bump up to 50 percent, the impetus seems to be an emulating of President Trump’s positions on trade, having imposed a 25 per cent tariff on U.S. metal, and a 10 per cent tariff on about 250 other goods totaling a value of $12.6 billion.

Ever the big talker about free trade and the principles of globalism, Trudeau seems to have woken up to the reality of governing in the national interest, or at least the political necessity of it.

The truth is despite CNN’s insistence on throwing negatively spun graphics on television insisting on how unpopular President Trump is, his approval is broadly in line, if not higher than, a number of Western leaders in context.

And they don’t have half of the antagonistic arms of government, the media, or political opposition working -- sometimes hand-in-hand -- against them
 

Arthur Brain

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Gee, I thought we fought a war to get rid of tyrants and kings and queens. Kings and queens are a rotten despicable concept. How interesting that the leftwing baby-killers love a monarch and hate a democratically elected leader.

Well, why am I not surprised.

If that were the case then why have you posted pics of Trump and the queen saying they're beautiful?

You really are just bonkers.

:freak:
 
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