Trump 2.0: MAGAA

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Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years

Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.

Yet he still beats the Democrats in Congress in terms of trust to handle the nation's main problems.

Thirty-nine percent of respondents in this ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll said they approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, down 6 percentage points from February, while 55% said they disapprove.

trump sucks and Dems in Congress suck even more. That's a whole lot of suck.

[kalm]

Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years

Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.

Yet he still beats the Democrats in Congress in terms of trust to handle the nation's main problems.

Thirty-nine percent of respondents in this ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll said they approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, down 6 percentage points from February, while 55% said they disapprove.

trump sucks and Dems in Congress suck even more. That's a whole lot of suck.

Hard to disagree with that. I’ll also suggest the entire political system sucks.

[SeattleGriz]

Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years



trump sucks and Dems in Congress suck even more. That's a whole lot of suck.

Hard to disagree with that. I’ll also suggest the entire political system sucks.

Oversampled Dems by 5%...which if sampled equally, negates it being the worst approval rating.

[UNI88]

Hard to disagree with that. I’ll also suggest the entire political system sucks.

Oversampled Dems by 5%...which if sampled equally, negates it being the worst approval rating.

So trump #47 is second worst. Who is worst?

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DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone

DOGE initially promised to identify and eliminate $2 trillion in the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, though Musk drastically cut that figure down to $150 billion—just 7.5% of his original estimated savings. Those spending cuts have impacted 260,000 federal workers, who have been fired, taken buyouts, or retired early since Trump’s return to the White House, Reuters calculated. Between layoffs and resignations, the Internal Revenue Service may lose up to one-third of its 100,000-strong workforce, about 22,000 of which may take Trump’s most recent resignation offer, The New York Times reported earlier this month.
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The Partnership of Public Service estimated DOGE could be costing taxpayers roughly $135 billion. With the 2.3 million people in the federal workforce receiving a total $270 billion in annual payroll, Stier believes the cost of firing, re-hiring, and putting workers on paid leave—as well as the losses in productivity as a result of the personnel changes—has cost the government about half of that total payroll.

A Yale University Budget Lab report from March found additional evidence that DOGE’s intended saving may be costing the government. While it’s unclear how much of the IRS’s workforce will be reduced, the Budget Lab calculated that should 22,000 employees leave the agency, it would lose $8.5 billion in net revenue in 2026, largely as a result of fewer personnel available to conduct audits. Over 10 years, this loss would amount to nearly $198 billion in revenue, according to the report.

Could doge be costing the government more money than it saves?

[BDKJMU]

DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone

DOGE initially promised to identify and eliminate $2 trillion in the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, though Musk drastically cut that figure down to $150 billion—just 7.5% of his original estimated savings. Those spending cuts have impacted 260,000 federal workers, who have been fired, taken buyouts, or retired early since Trump’s return to the White House, Reuters calculated. Between layoffs and resignations, the Internal Revenue Service may lose up to one-third of its 100,000-strong workforce, about 22,000 of which may take Trump’s most recent resignation offer, The New York Times reported earlier this month.
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The Partnership of Public Service estimated DOGE could be costing taxpayers roughly $135 billion. With the 2.3 million people in the federal workforce receiving a total $270 billion in annual payroll, Stier believes the cost of firing, re-hiring, and putting workers on paid leave—as well as the losses in productivity as a result of the personnel changes—has cost the government about half of that total payroll.

A Yale University Budget Lab report from March found additional evidence that DOGE’s intended saving may be costing the government. While it’s unclear how much of the IRS’s workforce will be reduced, the Budget Lab calculated that should 22,000 employees leave the agency, it would lose $8.5 billion in net revenue in 2026, largely as a result of fewer personnel available to conduct audits. Over 10 years, this loss would amount to nearly $198 billion in revenue, according to the report.

Could doge be costing the government more money than it saves?

As if there was govt productivity to be tanked.

The IRS is an evil, despicable organization that targets conk organizations (see 2013) that should be gutted. How many hundreds of billions a year does the IRS cost the US economy every year with their thousands of pages of tax code?

The federal tax code is incredibly complex—so complex that it covers 6,871 pages. If you add in the U.S. tax regulations, which are the U.S. Treasury’s official interpretation of the tax code, to that, you’d be up to 75,000 pages.

https://www.bench.co/blog/tax-tips/tax- ... 00%20pages.
Law abiding Americans shouldn’t have to live in fear of a federal agency every year. If you have a business or any type of major life changes you could hire 3 accountants to do your taxes and they would come up 3 different amounts you owe, and if the IRS audited you, they‘d come up with a different amount. You owe what the IRS says you owe. That’s complete BS. Should be able to do your tax returns on 1 piece of paper.

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[BDKJMU]

It’s not an actual deportation.

This allowed the Democrats to claim they were deporting people without actually deporting people from the interior.

It also allowed them to open the floodgates and still have high “deportation” numbers. The more people you invite to come in, the more people you can “turnaway” at the border and the better your fake deportation number looks.

What Trump did is make it very clear to illegals that they would not get in. Thus turnaway “deportations” have fallen to near zero. Instead they are focusing on interior deportations which are the only deportations that matter.

So the next time you say that Obama deported millions or Trump is deporting less than Biden, know that you are spreading Democrat propaganda bullshit.

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Trump’s polling plunge continues as he loses ground on immigration and his trade war

In a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Wednesday, nearly two thirds of Americans said uncontrolled migration was an issue of concern for them. Yet the share of respondents who approved of Trump’s actions was just 45 percent, lower than the 46 percent opposed to them. The rest were undecided. For context: the president enjoyed a double-digit advantage on this issue in Reuters polling taken over the final two weeks of the election.

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No one is melting down. We’re laughing at those who think putting cheap yard signs up on the Whitehouse lawn is a win. This is no way for an HOA president to act.

[kalm]

Mao Zetrump.

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Tik, Tik, Tik, Tik…

The clock is ticking on trade deals that the U.S. will need to strike with many nations, most notably China, to avoid what Trump’s Treasury Secretary has described as an “unsustainable” tariffs war. But in the U.S. farming sector, the damage has already been done and the economic crisis already begun.

U.S. agriculture exporters say the global backlash to President Trump’s tariffs is punishing them, especially a decline in Chinese buying of U.S. farm products, leading to cancelled export orders and layoffs. Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, a leading export trade group for farmers, tells CNBC the number of canceled purchases of U.S. agriculture should not be described as approaching a crisis. “It is a full-blown crisis already,” he said.

Data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday revealed China made its biggest cancellation of pork orders since 2020, halting a shipment of 12,000 tons of pork.

AgTC says “massive” financial losses are already being shared by its members as a result of the trade war, based on reports it is receiving from member companies.

A wood pulp and paperboard exporter reported to the trade group the immediate cancellation or hold of 6,400 metric tons in a warehouse and a hold of 15 railcars sitting in what is known in the supply chain as “demurrage,” when fees are charged for delayed movement of goods. Meanwhile, the exporter said there are 9,000 metric tons on the water to China expected to arrive on May 13 and facing the threat of costly diversion to Chinese bonded warehouses or to other countries as Chinese buyers may refuse the cargo and abandon it at port.

One grass seed exporter told AgTC it received two weeks notice that eight loads were being canceled by Chinese customers despite vessels bookings already being in place.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trade-w ... W-DoqM90aQ

[Caribbean Hen]

DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone

DOGE initially promised to identify and eliminate $2 trillion in the first months of President Donald Trump’s second term, though Musk drastically cut that figure down to $150 billion—just 7.5% of his original estimated savings. Those spending cuts have impacted 260,000 federal workers, who have been fired, taken buyouts, or retired early since Trump’s return to the White House, Reuters calculated. Between layoffs and resignations, the Internal Revenue Service may lose up to one-third of its 100,000-strong workforce, about 22,000 of which may take Trump’s most recent resignation offer, The New York Times reported earlier this month.
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The Partnership of Public Service estimated DOGE could be costing taxpayers roughly $135 billion. With the 2.3 million people in the federal workforce receiving a total $270 billion in annual payroll, Stier believes the cost of firing, re-hiring, and putting workers on paid leave—as well as the losses in productivity as a result of the personnel changes—has cost the government about half of that total payroll.

A Yale University Budget Lab report from March found additional evidence that DOGE’s intended saving may be costing the government. While it’s unclear how much of the IRS’s workforce will be reduced, the Budget Lab calculated that should 22,000 employees leave the agency, it would lose $8.5 billion in net revenue in 2026, largely as a result of fewer personnel available to conduct audits. Over 10 years, this loss would amount to nearly $198 billion in revenue, according to the report.

Could doge be costing the government more money than it saves?

Certainly not in the long run

[UNI88]

With China and the US at intense economic odds, other nations are being forced to choose sides

As Trump's trade war locks the world’s two largest economies on a collision course, America's unnerved allies and partners are cozying up with China to hedge their bets. It comes as Trump's trade push upends a decade of American foreign policy — including his own from his first term — toward rallying the rest of the world to join the United States against China. And it threatens to hand Beijing more leverage in any eventual dialogue with the U.S. administration.

With Trump saying that countries are “kissing my ass” to negotiate trade deals on his terms or risk stiff import taxes, Beijing is reaching out to countries far and near. It portrays itself as a stabilizing force and a predictable trading partner, both to cushion the impact from Trump's tariffs and to forge stronger trade ties outside of the U.S. market.

If this is the "art of the deal", who is he working for?

[Bobcat]

Oversampled Dems by 5%...which if sampled equally, negates it being the worst approval rating.

So trump #47 is second worst. Who is worst?

Who cares? Only the left

I hope Trump gets this down to democrats numbers in the mid 20's%

[UNI88]

Trump’s polling plunge continues as he loses ground on immigration and his trade war

Maybe not the best poll to be quoting ...





And it gets worse beyond immigration ...

[Caribbean Hen]

Tik, Tik, Tik, Tik…

The clock is ticking on trade deals that the U.S. will need to strike with many nations, most notably China, to avoid what Trump’s Treasury Secretary has described as an “unsustainable” tariffs war. But in the U.S. farming sector, the damage has already been done and the economic crisis already begun.

U.S. agriculture exporters say the global backlash to President Trump’s tariffs is punishing them, especially a decline in Chinese buying of U.S. farm products, leading to cancelled export orders and layoffs. Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition, a leading export trade group for farmers, tells CNBC the number of canceled purchases of U.S. agriculture should not be described as approaching a crisis. “It is a full-blown crisis already,” he said.

Data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday revealed China made its biggest cancellation of pork orders since 2020, halting a shipment of 12,000 tons of pork.

AgTC says “massive” financial losses are already being shared by its members as a result of the trade war, based on reports it is receiving from member companies.

A wood pulp and paperboard exporter reported to the trade group the immediate cancellation or hold of 6,400 metric tons in a warehouse and a hold of 15 railcars sitting in what is known in the supply chain as “demurrage,” when fees are charged for delayed movement of goods. Meanwhile, the exporter said there are 9,000 metric tons on the water to China expected to arrive on May 13 and facing the threat of costly diversion to Chinese bonded warehouses or to other countries as Chinese buyers may refuse the cargo and abandon it at port.

One grass seed exporter told AgTC it received two weeks notice that eight loads were being canceled by Chinese customers despite vessels bookings already being in place.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trade-w ... W-DoqM90aQ

At a time when China needs friends because it's not selling goods to the U.S., it is going out of its way to antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but also South Korea and Australia," Chang, a senior fellow with the Gatestone Institute, said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday

Something is "very, very wrong" in Beijing right now, according to foreign policy expert Gordon Chang, who is signaling more "end-of-regime conduct" coming out of Xi Jinping’s China.

[Bobcat]

China is is super fucked, they have no way possible to replace 38% of their economy. They are going to fold if they don't "kiss the ring" of our Rock Star president with the mandate!

Its gonna be so funny watching the media lie about this when it happens. They will never give Trump credit for anything and that's just the way we like it.

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Tik, Tik, Tik, Tik…



https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trade-w ... W-DoqM90aQ

At a time when China needs friends because it's not selling goods to the U.S., it is going out of its way to antagonize not just the Philippines, not just Taiwan, but also South Korea and Australia," Chang, a senior fellow with the Gatestone Institute, said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday

Something is "very, very wrong" in Beijing right now, according to foreign policy expert Gordon Chang, who is signaling more "end-of-regime conduct" coming out of Xi Jinping’s China.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/china ... havior.amp

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China is is super fucked, they have no way possible to replace 38% of their economy. They are going to fold if they don't "kiss the ring" of our Rock Star president with the mandate!

Its gonna be so funny watching the media lie about this when it happens. They will never give Trump credit for anything and that's just the way we like it.

Yep. Just have to hold the line. They are already desperate.

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