Sleazeball Trump Bewildered by Public Rejection of His Unpopular Agenda

[babylonsister]

Sleazeball Trump Bewildered by Public Rejection of His Unpopular Agenda
by Adam Lynch | August 3, 2025 - 5:18am

— from Alternet

Editor Michael Tomasky tells the New Republic that President Donald Trump appears frustrated that he’s not more popular.

“He complains, we read, that he’s accomplished a great deal and that he’s keeping his campaign promises … So he can’t figure out why he’s at 37 percent,” writes Tomasky.

“I could tell him why,” Tomasky adds—and No. 1 is likely because the promises he’s managing to keep are unpopular.

“The big, ugly bill—unpopular. Rounding up poor guys hanging out at Home Depot looking for work—unpopular. Putting people in, yes, concentration camps—unpopular,” writes Tomasky. “Cutting his Palm Beach pals’ taxes—unpopular. Imposing these absurd tariffs—unpopular. I could go on. There is literally not a single important item on the Trump domestic agenda that polls well.”

And you can’t discount the promises Trump’s broken, Tomasky said. These include lowering prices on day one, ending Russia’s war on Ukraine and bringing peace to the Middle East, among others.

But Trump’s policy failures pale in comparison to his other major flaw keeping his numbers low, said Tomasky.

“He’s a sleazeball, and more and more people are finally coming to realize it. The Jeffrey Epstein matter is Exhibit A, of course, but there is much more. The way he and his family are getting rich from the presidency is just obscene. Have you ever gone to TrumpStore.com? If not, have a look. It’s relentlessly garish, of course, but more than that, it’s relentlessly and proudly, defiantly overpriced. Yet these idiots buy this crap by the millions.”

But it’s Epstein that is catching up with him, writes Tomasky. And that story is far from over.

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http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/adam-lynch/114540/sleazeball-trump-bewildered-by-public-rejection-of-his-unpopular-agenda

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Well, gosh.

It’s not like he didn’t tell voters EXACTLY what he was going to do, and told them many times over, during the campaign.

I am SO DONE with hearing how unpopular he is and how “I didn’t vote for THAT”.

Yet he remains on his throne to continue to destroy America. No R with a spine in Congress evidently. They could put a stop to it if they weren’t so cowardly.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Not me. I want 24/7 electronic billboards in every town proclaiming it. Rubbing it in like salt in a wound.

[Aristus]

10. I'm so done with the absurd wastes of contaminated human protoplasm who burble

“I still support him, cuz he’s doing good things for the country!”

[Diamond_Dog]

11. Yep. Or

Those who say “I didn’t think he deserved another term so I didn’t vote in the last election.”

[paleotn]

14. Many voters, probably most, aren't rational, don't listen, and have the memory capacity of a fruit fly.

Yet we apply rationality to them for making a really bad choice. Like they're college students who failed a test. They vote very shallow, based on sound bites and popular conceptions. For people like me and you, that's insane. Sucks, but that's the world we live in. Case in point, ask the average voter what Project 2025 is and more than likely you'll get a puzzled stare or a millimeter deep understanding.

Repukes are very good at tapping into that shallow understanding, or misunderstanding, and shaping prevailing notions, i.e. Reagan's catchy phrase " Government isn't the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” That stuck in American minds even though it's stupidly simplistic and ridiculous. That's how they turned the word liberal from something virtuous to a pejorative. I'm old enough to remember when being liberal was generally a good thing. Worse yet, Dems let them do it. Mainly because we're just not good at shaping the popular view anymore. Not since the 70's.

Dems today act like goddamn college professors. That doesn't win elections. Never has. We need to get back to understanding how voters actually tick. Understand their shallowness and sheep like behavior. Shape popular conception and use it to our advantage, instead of relying on Repukes to fuck things up royally in order to get back into power. Way past time for offense and not mealy mouthed defense. Hopefully, it's not too late.

[Diamond_Dog]

16. The far right has AM talk radio and Fox "News"

Liberals need to come up with something like that. Billboards, TV ads, too.

[Hugin]

2. Regression toward the mean...

That is if I believed that he somehow became popular enough to carry the vote in 2024. Which I don’t.

[Best_man23]

3. "Have you ever gone to tRump$tore.com?"

No, because I don't need malware on my devices.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Hahaha!

[gordianot]

4. It must be the pollsters fault.

Maybe he should fire them and hire some with a more positive outlook.

[mountain grammy]

9. He'll order them deported

Or worse.

[GoneOffShore]

7. Narcissists never understand why people don't like them.

And BTW, the Smirking Chimp website looks like it's steam powered.

[PJMcK]

8. Steam powered?

Hamsters running on a wheel is more like it.

It reminds me of that right-wing site run by the guy in a wheelchair.

[GoneOffShore]

17. I haven't seen that site in years. Is it still running?

Smirking Chimp should have moved over to MySpace.

[cstanleytech]

12. Not to mention cutting Medicaid to pay for a windfall tax break for the ultra wealthy who did nothing to deserve it.

[Ohioboy]

13. He knew enough to lie about not knowing anything about Project 2025 during his campaign

If he can't figure out why he's so unpopular, he's a complete dumbass, another reason he's not fit to be president.

[GopherGal]

18. Yes, he ran away from Project 2025 all last summer

disclaiming anything to do with it. He gets in office and starts using it as his playbook and belatedly "realizes" the actual policies in there are tremendously unpopular? Yeah, right.

[Uncle Joe]

15. I don't believe *rump is "bewildered" he's not that stupid, he just doesn't care about people.

To *rump, people are just objects to be manipulated solely for furthering his own ambitions.

One of MAGA's; greatest mistakes was in believing that despite all the vitriol and hatred hurled toward their perceived enemies, whether it be minorities, immigrants or the other is that *rump doesn't care about them either, he views them with hidden disdain, made evident by his 180 on Epstein.

The only person that *rump is capable of caring about is himself.

Thanks for the thread babylonsister.