"WaPo: 'Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, according to a WaPo-ABC News-Ipsos poll, amid growing economic pain and fears of terrorism as a result of the military campaign.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy #Congress #ApprovalRating
/18

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-361-5126

Today in Politics, Bulletin 361. 5/1/26

… Trump gave a campaign speech today to a group of senior citizens at The Villages in FL, which many longtime Floridians refer to as ‘God’s Waiting Room’.

Meidas+

"Even as President Donald Trump’s hold over the electorate wanes, his administration’s naked authoritarian tendencies intensify. If you can tell a man’s mettle by how he behaves under pressure, Trump—mired in a ludicrous standoff of his own making with Iran and cratering in the polls—is putting on a display of raw narcissism and petty cruelty unparalleled among modern democracies."

~ Sasha Abramsky

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #narcissism #cruelty
/16

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-authoritarianism-polls/

"The Comey indictment sends a message. No matter how implausible the case, no matter how many times a case fails, the Trump regime will continue to use the United States government to pursue the people Donald has decided are his enemies.

Comey is just one of those people."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #MentalDecline #JamesComey #ToddBlanche #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #retribution
/15

https://www.marytrump.org/p/shell-game

Shell Game

How the Trump Regime Turned Seashells Into a Federal Case

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump

"Trump is a failed dictator — but he is still president, and he’s propped up by stooges like Blanche who are ready and willing to make good on his most rage-fueled and irrational desires. The next two years, therefore, may be among the most trying of the slow-motion disaster that has been the Trump Era."

#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #TriumphalArch #passports
/14

"Just as Hitler’s failures led him to resent the German people ever more strongly and destructively, we can expect Trump’s growing frustration to result in ever more nihilistic and destructive actions as his term moves toward its end."

#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #TriumphalArch #passports
/13

(continued from /11)

"the two share a late-regime obsession with rewriting history and building monuments to justify their utterly failed rule.

Hence the increasingly frantic effort of a crew of cronies, now being led by Blanche, to validate Trump’s victimhood thesis."

#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #TriumphalArch #passports
/12

"So it must be all the more frustrating for him to witness the now-undeniable fact that his show has jumped the shark. ...

While America, and the world, is lucky that Trump — a far, far lazier man than the quite lazy Hitler — seems to be running out of steam well before he can hope to work horrors anything close to those achieved by the Nazi dictator," (continued in /12)

#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
/11

"Trump is clearly losing his mind — his cognitive abilities have been deteriorating in front of cameras with ever greater rapidity at least since the last presidential campaign. But the media personality in the White House retains his instinctual understanding of what plays, and what bombs, on TV."

~ David R. Lurie

#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating
/10

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-reichstag-fire-presidency

Trump’s Reichstag fire presidency is immolating

The media personality in the White House has been exposed as a crisis actor.

Public Notice

"Indeed, Morris noted that Trump’s approval rating on the economy is so low it ‘literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal.’ …

In the face of Trump’s growing unpopularity, the Republicans are changing not their unpopular policies but the rules of elections, clearly hoping to game the system to win elections no matter how unpopular they have become."

#Trump #MentalDecline #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #gas #oil #economy #inflation #ApprovalRating #SupremeCourt #Callais
/9

“Today G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers noted that Trump has hit a new low in overall job performance and in his handling of the economy, at -22.2 and -40.3, respectively. Those numbers reflect the percentage of people who approve of his handling of an issue minus those who disapprove."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #MentalDecline #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #gas #oil #economy #inflation #ApprovalRating
/8

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-30-2026

April 30, 2026

Today G.

Letters from an American