President Donald Trump is “crashing out” in the polls, as well as in his willingness to accept their verdict, according to a former Republican strategist who advised President George W. Bush.
“Donald Trump's approval rating is crashing out,” Steve Schmidt posted on the social media platform X on Sunday morning. The post included a video in which Schmidt analyzed news reports showing Trump’s popularity plummeting in the polls.
“Everybody sees all of this,” Schmidt said. “Clearly, support for Donald Trump is hitting as low as 30% in some polls, and in this one at 36% approval, 62% of the country not approving. And yet Trump thinks he's more popular than ever.”
Schmidt then included a quote from Trump saying that he has 100 percent approval rating, a number based on self-identified “MAGA Republican” who by definition are already Trump supporters.
"I think I'm more popular than I ever have been,” Trump said. “Look, when he heard 100%, he said, 'I've never seen a poll like this. This is the craziest poll I've ever seen.' It was 100% of the people. And the reason is they like that I'm protecting our country from lunatics with a nuclear weapon."
Despite advising Republicans like Bush and the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Schmidt frequently denounces Trump, such as when he described the president’s unprovoked invasion of Iran as “madness” earlier in March.
“My friends, it is all madness,” Schmidt said at the time. “The White House is an asylum. The president is deranged. He is a predator and criminal, and he is immoral, abusive and dishonest. He is a liar and charter member of the Epstein class.”
Also earlier in March, Schmidt described Trump as “despised” before the world because of a number of crises arising from his policies including rising gas prices, humanitarian atrocities at home and the Iran war. He further predicted that gas prices “are going to go much higher. The first dead Americans have started to come home, but the story of American casualties is just beginning as the 82nd Airborne and US Marine expeditionary units prepare for an assault on Iranian territory.”
Schmidt concluded at the time, “Prices are rising, airports have gone off the rails, gas is sky high, and America is losing a war to Iran because it was planned by fools. Everywhere there is disaster, and it has not gone unnoticed by the American people.”
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"He is a liar and charter member of the Epstein class.”
OUCH!!! that's a kick in the nuts!