general political shit

Just over a third of Americans approve of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a new poll released hours before his inauguration.

The survey from Fox News showed that 37 percent of Americans approve of Trump ahead of his inauguration, while 54 percent do not.

Measuring the country’s mood just before Inauguration Day, 60 percent of Americans said “it’s everyone for themselves,” and 34 percent said “we’re all in this together.”

The poll comes at the tail end of a flurry of surveys that show Trump as having a historically low approval rating for a president-elect.

According to an ABC/Washington Post poll released earlier this week, 40 percent of Americans approved of Trump. In 2009, 80 percent of Americans approved of then-president-elect Barack Obama.

Congo Jack wrote:

george lucas wrote:i seriously doubt the uncounted people make up another 30-40%. point still stands that trump is scoring low in this category compared to other presidents in the past ~40 years

im not saying how the uncounted people would sway it but it's fuckin retarded to push them under the rug like that (like you just did )
my point still stands that these polls arent conclusive

Congo Jack wrote:yeah its pretty inaccurate as a us citizen outlook when nowhere near the amount of us citizens took the poll
they dont account for everyone
im not saying every poll ever is inaccurate because they don't ask everyone but to get an accurate result on polls like these, specifically targeted at us citizens as, again, a us citizen outlook, you have to account for all us citizens, and not all us citizens are going to take these polls. it's too left up to probability to be conclusive the way i see it.

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump, seeking to demonstrate he backs the intelligence community after a turbulent transition, told CIA employees Saturday at their headquarters: "I am so behind you."

"I am with you 1,000%," Trump said after receiving intelligence briefings from top officials at the headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
"There is nobody that feels stronger about the Intelligence Community and the CIA than Donald Trump," he said to applause, noting the significance of his decision to make the agency his first official stop on his first full day as president.
"I am so behind you," Trump continued, adding, "You're going to get so much backing."
Trump made his remarks in the lobby of CIA headquarters, in front of a memorial wall that features 117 stars honoring those CIA officers who have been killed in the line of duty.
"The wall behind me is very very special," Trump said.

President Donald Trump's first job-approval rating is in, and it is the lowest an incoming president has ever received.

Only 45% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance over the first three days of his presidency, according to a Gallup survey released Monday. It's the first time a president has received an initial approval rating under 50% in the history of the poll, which dates back to Dwight Eisenhower's first term in 1953.

Another 45% of Americans disapproved of Trump's performance — the highest initial rating in the poll's history. The remaining 10% had not yet formed an opinion.

Republicans and Democrats were sharply divided over the president's performance, the poll indicated, with 90% of Republicans signaling approval and 81% of Democrats disapproving. Independents appear to be split, with 40% approving and 44% disapproving.

Men were more likely to approve of Trump's performance than women, 48% to 42%. The racial disparity was even greater, with 56% of whites approving compared with 22% of nonwhites.

The survey affirms the findings of other polls conducted before Inauguration Day that showed Trump to be a historically unpopular incoming president. Trump denounced that batch of polls as "rigged" last week.