Serious question. The guy inherits the country from the worst US president in history who intentionally sabotaged americans. Trump fulfills his campaign promises in the first three months. Closed the border, easy job. Getting the illegals out that are already in, not easy but clear its happening because the pressure is mounting on them to commit crimes before theyre deported. Inflation down, eggs not insane prices anymore. Does anyone here think they could do a better job? Is anyone in the world a better fit for the position? Seems everyone here would rather the US turn into the UK

tariffs 

4 minutes ago, pegman said:

tariffs 

Which the result of is not known other than the temporary stock market dip

Easy answer. Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.

 

Sheltered behind tariff walls, American companies will sell almost exclusively to domestic consumers. The loss of international sales will degrade corporate earnings, leaving companies with less money to invest in their businesses. American consumers will be stuck with U.S.-made goods that are of middling quality but more expensive than global products, owing to higher U.S. manufacturing costs. Working families will face rising inflation and stagnant incomes. Traditional high-value industries such as car manufacturing and pharmaceuticals are already being lost to China; the important industries of the future will follow. Imagine Detroit or Cleveland on a national scale.

 

Who cares?  80 percent, 1, 100, who cares?  The popularity contest is over.    Over a billion people know who he is, and the eight billion living on this rock will  have some haters.  who cares?  nobody knows their name or their country or their president.  they get bitter, mad, and need to drag everyone down.  way easier to fall than rise.  you can spend years of your only life worried about someone else, or help yourself.  I'm off to save 100 kittens from a burning building in Pattaya and will donate billions to the local bars.  it's a small offering, all i can do.  

Trump approval rating net positive on immigration only: Nate Silver
 06/02/25 12:23 PM ET

 

President Trump has a net positive approval rating only on the issue of immigration, according to the latest polling averages released by Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin. <SKIP>

 

As June begins, however, Trump’s average approval on the economy is net negative 11.3 percentage points, with 53.4 percent disapproving and 42.1 percent approving. Average approval of Trump’s handling of the economy dipped into the net negative territory in mid-February.

 

Trump’s average approval on trade is net negative 9.6 percentage points, while his approval on inflation is net negative 17.5 percentage points.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5328808-trump-approval-rating-immigration-economy-inflation-nate-silver/

 

 

24 minutes ago, hotsun said:

Serious question. The guy inherits the country from the worst US president in history who intentionally sabotaged americans. Trump fulfills his campaign promises in the first three months. Closed the border, easy job. Getting the illegals out that are already in, not easy but clear its happening because the pressure is mounting on them to commit crimes before theyre deported. Inflation down, eggs not insane prices anymore. Does anyone here think they could do a better job? Is anyone in the world a better fit for the position? Seems everyone here would rather the US turn into the UK

Sarcasm?

 

The guy is a perfect example of an a-hole leader and an embarrassment in the eyes of most nations. His rhetoric is never anything but inflammatory, his policies are regressive or chaotic more suited to a previous age, and his behavior is massively self-serving and authoritarian.

11 hours ago, hotsun said:

Serious question.

 

you haven't been reading the forum, have you?

many people have the complete opposite impression of him than you and think the previous president was better. 

 

 

 

All I knows is Trump hit a home run in Pittsburgh the other day with the US Steel fellas and my stocks/bonds portfolio is doing quite nicely.

 

Once Apple Inc.  and Levi Strauss move their manufacturing back to the States the mission will be completed.

 

 

Imagine if he had kept his promise to end the war in Ukraine on day one.

He would probably have his 80% popularity.

But he talks big and delivers small to medium.

 

39 minutes ago, hotsun said:

Serious question. The guy inherits the country from the worst US president in history who intentionally sabotaged americans. Trump fulfills his campaign promises in the first three months. Closed the border, easy job. Getting the illegals out that are already in, not easy but clear its happening because the pressure is mounting on them to commit crimes before theyre deported. Inflation down, eggs not insane prices anymore. Does anyone here think they could do a better job? Is anyone in the world a better fit for the position? Seems everyone here would rather the US turn into the UK

Whatever Trump's aims are or were, there is a way of doing things, and his isn't it.

 

Surely he could have argued and negotiated his tariffs without alienating his allies, insulting China and causing them to block all exports of rare earths to the US, and look more forcefully towards de-dollarisation. How is that going to help the US?

 

Offended Canada to the extent that Canadians have boycotted US goods and travel to the US. 

Same with Denmark over Greenland.

 

He can't keep on blaming Biden. What sort of a President posts such crap as Biden being executed and replaced by a robot?

He has destroyed the gravitas of the Oval Room, turning it into something resembling the Muppet Show.

 

 

 

 

He's destroying the dollar as the reserve currency. And everything else is chaos.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Easy answer. Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.

 

Sheltered behind tariff walls, American companies will sell almost exclusively to domestic consumers. The loss of international sales will degrade corporate earnings, leaving companies with less money to invest in their businesses. American consumers will be stuck with U.S.-made goods that are of middling quality but more expensive than global products, owing to higher U.S. manufacturing costs. Working families will face rising inflation and stagnant incomes. Traditional high-value industries such as car manufacturing and pharmaceuticals are already being lost to China; the important industries of the future will follow. Imagine Detroit or Cleveland on a national scale.

 

When will your theft of intellectual property cease?  Its unethical, meretricious and dangerous to the viability of this Forum.

https://x.com/Dr_Keefer/status/1928081676837736938

https://worldtradescanner.com/In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.htm

 

25 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

my stocks/bonds portfolio is doing quite nicely.

Im heading back to the USA for annual paperpushing and meetings, and the money dude is very very happy

In Israel it is.

For once, because Western societies are so divided these days, with, at least, 40% always 'against it'. 

 

It's most obvious on social media. If I were to post on FB that 'milk is white', I'm sure, within half a day, I would receive a dozen replies, either denying it outright, or bringing arguments that 'things are not that simple'... 😆 

There is also the matter that Trump is simply a trashy person. Someone who oozes sleaze, corruption, degeneracy, and greed is not going to be thought well of. Pile on the chaos he has instituted and you have one of the most distasteful public figures in modern history.

1 minute ago, StayinThailand2much said:

For once, because Western societies are so divided these days, with, at least, 40% always 'against it'... 😆 

Think about it, true democracy project where everyone has something to say, and everyone opinion is as much worth as anyone else have done to us? 

 

Humans unfortunately is best led with a carrot, and a reward in the end. When people realize there is no reward in the end, this is what happening.

 

Complete chaos

 

It's ridiculous looking back on the opportunities we had, and wasted

 

Dark ages coming back

1 hour ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Sarcasm?

 

The guy is a perfect example of an a-hole leader and an embarrassment in the eyes of most nations. His rhetoric is never anything but inflammatory, his policies are regressive or chaotic more suited to a previous age, and his behavior is massively self-serving and authoritarian.

No not sarcasm but it seems to be the level of intelligence of MM's is not that high.

Uneducated,as trump puts it himself.

4 hours ago, John Drake said:

He's destroying the dollar as the reserve currency. And everything else is chaos.

There is currently no other currency (or arrangement of currencies) that could challenge the US dollar’s preeminence, however. Even a smaller role of the dollar in global trade transactions would not immediately challenge its reserve currency status, given the lack of investment alternatives in other currencies at a scale comparable to US markets. The dollar has also benefited from strong global network effects that would be difficult to replace (that is, the costs for any country to divest into other currencies remain prohibitively high unless other countries do the same). 

1 hour ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Sarcasm?

 

The guy is a perfect example of an a-hole leader and an embarrassment in the eyes of most nations. His rhetoric is never anything but inflammatory, his policies are regressive or chaotic more suited to a previous age, and his behavior is massively self-serving and authoritarian.

NO !!!

He's not an a-hole Leader.

But he's a wannabe leader, a wannabe president, a wannabe deal maker, a wannabe intelligent, a wannabe expert in everything.

Simply an a-hole. But not a wannabe one. 🤢

Because half the people are total idiots ... IMHO

 

2016

 

2024

... wiki

57 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Once Apple Inc.  ..move their manufacturing back to the States the mission will be completed.

Get real, never going to happen.

30 minutes ago, John Drake said:

There is also the matter that Trump is simply a trashy person. Someone who oozes sleaze, corruption, degeneracy, and greed is not going to be thought well of. Pile on the chaos he has instituted and you have one of the most distasteful public figures in modern history.

What a joke. What kind of leaders will the world have in the future? More keir starmers most likely

There's an old saying:

"You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Are you comfortable with his breathtaking abuse of power by benefiting himself and family. Are you comfortable with the absolute scumbags he has recently pardoned. In terms of policy he's put terrible people in control,made silly decisions on trade then in part undone those decisions, cosying up to the worst people, putting freedom of press at stake by using regulation as a political tool. Effective in immigration but huge concerns regarding the way it has been done. DOGE could have been a good thing but was so poorly and recklessly executed it beggars belief. If eggs are cheaper or stock market ok it's in spite of him rather than because of him. 

2 hours ago, hotsun said:

Serious question. The guy inherits the country from the worst US president in history who intentionally sabotaged americans. Trump fulfills his campaign promises in the first three months. Closed the border, easy job. Getting the illegals out that are already in, not easy but clear its happening because the pressure is mounting on them to commit crimes before theyre deported. Inflation down, eggs not insane prices anymore. Does anyone here think they could do a better job? Is anyone in the world a better fit for the position? Seems everyone here would rather the US turn into the UK

Inflation may be down but prices are still unaffordable for many.  Trump had nothing to do with insane eggs prices.  Consumer confidence is sinking fast along with record high credit card delinquencies.  Only those with blinders think Trump is doing great. 

2 hours ago, hotsun said:

Serious question. The guy inherits the country from the worst US president in history who intentionally sabotaged americans. Trump fulfills his campaign promises in the first three months. Closed the border, easy job. Getting the illegals out that are already in, not easy but clear its happening because the pressure is mounting on them to commit crimes before theyre deported. Inflation down, eggs not insane prices anymore. Does anyone here think they could do a better job? Is anyone in the world a better fit for the position? Seems everyone here would rather the US turn into the UK

 

It's because America is divided into half, and the loser half will not acknowledge great work no matter how good it is, because it's being done by the guy they hate.

 

 

53 minutes ago, JustThisOnePostOnly said:

In Israel it is.

Thats why Jews win the Nobel Prize in science so much. Smart folks

7 minutes ago, Hawaiian said:

Consumer confidence is sinking fast

A blatant lie.  This is the AI answer, if you want some more detail, Ill get it for the Forum when you retract your lie.

" May 2025, The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index saw a notable increase, rising 12.3 points to 98.0. This marked the largest monthly increase in over four years and the first monthly rise since November. The index's rise was attributed to improved consumer expectations, particularly regarding business conditions, employment prospects, and future income."