This one is beyond absurd
Donald Trump has entered office with an approval rating in the forties, which is historically low for a President taking office. Typically an incoming President starts with an approval rating in the fifties or sixties, as Americans in the middle initially try to give the new President a strong start, and then that approval rating gradually drops after the goodwill of the first hundred days is off. Trump, in contrast, is getting no such goodwill.
Yet yesterday, CNN’s resident data analyst announced that Trump’s initial approval rating in the forties means that “Americans like what they’re seeing” from Trump. Wait a minute, what? Do I even need to point out that by definition, an approval rating in the forties means that the majority of Americans don’t like what they’re seeing? It’s just math.
This is a reminder of what we’re up against from the media. They’re so eager to kiss Trump’s backside, they’re actually pretending that a forty-something percent approval rating – which every elementary school student knows is less than half – somehow means that Americans like what they’re seeing. This kind of thing is why Palmer Report has to exist.
