President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[beefytee]

Ha. Knock it off. Except for brief honeymoon period after election and after declaring war, approval ratings closely mirror party affiliation.

It has been this way since Clinton, but prior to that approval/disapproval ratings could fluctuate quite a bit.

With politics being so polarized right now, Trumps approval/disapproval has been by far the most consistent of any presidency in the last half century.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[myboynoah]

I just throw my hands up in "What the hell?"

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[LVAllen]

I just throw my hands up in "What the hell?"

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Stupid tweets from a stupid man. What else would you expect from Ol' Dimwitted Donny?

[Commando]

Stupid tweets from a stupid man. What else would you expect from Ol' Dimwitted Donny?

He's speaking to his base. The bottom 10%, apparently.

[BlueK]

Stupid tweets from a stupid man. What else would you expect from Ol' Dimwitted Donny?

He's repeating what Rush L and some of the people on Fox were saying.

[PaloAltoCougar]

The son (Ryan Kelly) of a close friiend is a financial advisor who posted the following on FB today (I can't reproduce the graph here, but the text provides sufficient information):

Just wasted 20 minutes in Excel making this chart with Yahoo Finance data. Stock market performance for Obama vs. Trump.

Growth of $10,000 in S&P 500 (including dividends) for first 1,134 days in office:

Obama: $18,178
Trump: $13,887

I'm so disappointed. I was promised more winning! :-)

(My view: Presidents have little control over the stock market. I find it annoying that our current President loves to take full credit for a rising stock market, but blames outside forces when the stock market drops).

[Jeff Lebowski]

The son (Ryan Kelly) of a close friiend is a financial advisor who posted the following on FB today (I can't reproduce the graph here, but the text provides sufficient information):

And the coronavirus correction will keep making those numbers worse. Could end up impacting the election and giving us President Bernie. yippee.

[wapiti]

And the coronavirus correction will keep making those numbers worse. Could end up impacting the election and giving us President Bernie. yippee.

If Trump were smart he would do some things that will stimulate the economy to offset the effects of the virus. Suspending his tariffs would make sense as it would help the same companies that are part of the supply chain disruption. If Trump were smart . . .

[old_gregg]

If Trump were smart he would do some things that will stimulate the economy to offset the effects of the virus. Suspending his tariffs would make sense as it would help the same companies that are part of the supply chain disruption. If Trump were smart . . .

he’s been saving that all along for immediately before he hits the campaign trail

[Northwestcoug]

Please, no more talk of the 'criminal justice reform' Trump:

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[myboynoah]

lol

Might as well have said he'll resign when pigs fly.

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[myboynoah]

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[Flystripper]

he’s been saving that all along for immediately before he hits the campaign trail

Yep. It’s been his long game.


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[Northwestcoug]

Spectacularly irresponsible:

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We should have low expectations from president vaccines cause autism, but this is dangerous.

[myboynoah]

I guess he thinks if he talks this down, then the Dow will not dive again, or even go back up.

He is probably right that the mortality rate is lower than 3.4%; more likely somewhere around 1%. Talking it down like this undermines the directives coming from his coronavirus team. COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads pretty quickly. U.S. population is 327 million. If by talking it down people decide not to institute countermeasures, it will spread. By how much, we don't know. The 1918 flu affected one third of the world population. If COVID spreads to one third of the U.S. population (109 million people), we could expect 1 million deaths. Think about that. 1 million deaths. Even if it spreads to only 5% of the population (16.4 million people), that would be 164,000 deaths.

The economic costs are already mounting. Airlines are cutting routes. Hotel bookings are going to tank. People are going to stop going to retail establishments, especially large purchases. People will start hunkering down to wait it out, probably for 2-3 months. That will help to stem the spread, but the economy will feel it. People will be out of work for two weeks if they get it. Korea is estimating a 0.5% decrease in economic growth because of COVID-19.

Trump should focus on calming people, staying on message with the experts, and start looking at some kind of economic plan to counter the effect of the "corona flu" instead of trying to glad talk his way out of this.