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Eugene

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Mon Jul 21, 2025, 12:25 AM Yesterday

Mike Johnson Wildly Inflates Trump's Approval Rating

Mike Johnson Wildly Inflates Trump’s Approval Rating (The Daily Beast)

House Speaker Mike Johnson dropped some jaws to the floor by suggesting Donald Trump is currently netting ratings that’d make a North Korean despot blush.

“The president is the most maligned and attacked political figure in the history of American politics,” he told CNBC. “But he’s also the most resilient. You see at the same time, his approval ratings are skyrocketing.”

“CNN had a story, I think a day or two ago, he was at 90 percent approval rating,” Johnson added. “There’s never been a president that high!”

He’s half-right. There has indeed, throughout the history of the United States, never once been a president who secured approval ratings even remotely near that number, being closer to the kind of figures you might expect to see from deeply repressive totalitarian countries like China, Azerbaijan, or Belarus.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-wildly-inflates-trump-154044520.html
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Mike Johnson Wildly Inflates Trump's Approval Rating (Original Post) Eugene Yesterday OP
"never been a president that high" ... He's not high, he's just demented and delusional. nt eppur_se_muova Yesterday #1
Might be 90% approval ratings in the MAGA caucus Brother Buzz Yesterday #2

eppur_se_muova

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1. "never been a president that high" ... He's not high, he's just demented and delusional. nt
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 02:25 AM
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