A Post-Ipsos poll revealed that 39 percent of Americans \u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of Trump while only 27 percent \u201cstrongly approve\u201d.<\/p>\n
In every major poll taken to date, more Americans say they disapprove of Trump than approve of him.<\/p>\n
And his numbers continue to plummet.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s personal life is not helping him. HuffPost recently reported that he spent at least 12 nights at Mar-a-Lago in his first 29 days in office, that he played golf at one of his own properties on nine of his first 30 days in office, and that those golf outings have cost the American taxpayer $10.7 million. Struggling American taxpayers are not likely to appreciate such a kingly attitude.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk\u2019s contributions have made matters even worse for Trump. Musk\u2019s claims that DOGE has saved the government billions of dollars have been proven so wrong they are beyond laughable. They are full of slapdash accounting errors, outdated data, incorrect assumptions, unverifiable numbers, obvious exaggerations and flat-out lies.<\/p>\n
DOGE increasingly looks like a giant hoax. Last week, reporters found that nearly 40 percent of the contracts DOGE claims to have canceled aren\u2019t expected to save the government a penny, forcing DOGE to delete all of the five biggest \u201csavings\u201d on its so-called \u201cwall of receipts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also, after DOGE abruptly fired hundreds of nuclear weapons workers, and hundreds more scientists at the Food and Drug Administration, Trump was forced to<\/a> rehire them all.<\/p>\n Also, last Wednesday, Musk said that DOGE \u201caccidentally canceled\u201d efforts by USAID to prevent the spread of Ebola, but that the initiative was quickly restored. That was a bald-faced lie. It wasn\u2019t, and people are dying because of it.<\/p>\n Matters got so bad at DOGE last week that 21 federal civil service tech workers resigned<\/a>, saying in a group letter that they were quitting rather than help Musk \u201cdismantle critical public services.\u201d<\/p>\n Finally, Musk\u2019s conflicts of interest are bursting into the open. The Trump-controlled FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul a communications system integral to its air traffic control system \u2014 and awarding the contract to Musk\u2019s Starlink instead.<\/p>\n Outraged Americans are expressing their anger in many ways, including vandalizing Musk\u2019s Tesla automobiles wherever they can find them, or publicly shaming their owners by putting anti-Musk bumper stickers<\/a> on their cars. Last week thousands of people demonstrated outside of Tesla dealerships from Philadelphia to Seattle to register their outrage with Musk\u2019s political power, and scores of more such demonstrations are scheduled. Tesla owners are beginning to express buyer\u2019s remorse.<\/p>\n Veterans are piling on. Douglas A. Collis, Veterans Affairs secretary, claimed that cuts to 875 contracts would save nearly $2 billion. But when veterans learned those contracts covered medical services, recruited doctors, funded cancer programs and paid for veterans\u2019 burial services, they complained so loudly that the VA rescinded every single one of them.<\/p>\n Even the Christian Nationalism, which is supposed to be taking over the government, is facing profound internal problems that are certain to disrupt things. Andra Watkins, an acclaimed speaker and best-selling New York Times author, studied Christian Nationalism and discovered it is a tenuous alliance among three very different sects: Dominionist Pentecostal\/Charismatics, Opus Dei Catholics, and hardline Baptists with a smattering of other Protestants. The problem, she writes, is that each sect firmly teaches its members that they are the only \u201creal\u201d Christians, and so a holy war could erupt and cause havoc throughout the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Faith-based institutions not involved with Christian Nationalism also are getting involved. Churches, synagogues and ecumenical organizations are joining hands in an extraordinary effort to rein in Trump\u2019s stampede. Twenty-seven Christian, Jewish and ecumenical groups, which among them have millions of members, has sued the Trump administration over Trump\u2019s order to allow ICE and Department of Homeland Security agents to invade churches to arrest undocumented residents. The order reversed a 30-year-old DHS policy not to make arrests in places of worship, schools, hospitals and funerals because arrests in those places cause more personal and social problems than they solve.<\/p>\n A spokesman for Trump said ICE and DHS agents need to invade those sacred spaces \u201cto catch criminal agents \u2013 including murderers and rapists \u2013 who have illegally come into our country.\u201d<\/p>\n But a spokesman for the lawsuit\u2019s sponsors said ICE and others have always been welcome to enter places of worship \u201cif they had a judicial warrant and if there were exigent circumstances. So if someone dangerous was running and went into a place of worship, then, of course, law enforcement can follow in order to protect people.\u201d<\/p>\n But invade churches to arrest undocumented residents, many of whom have created no crimes? No!<\/p>\n (Interjection: Even though 27 faith-based organizations were involved in filing the lawsuit, the suit is titled \u201cMennonite Church VS The Department of Homeland Security\u201d, which seems rather odd since Mennonites practice nonresistance, which means they do not resist authority even when it is unjustly exercised. Their prominent spot in the lawsuit\u2019s title caused a SLATE writer to quip, \u201cYou know that you have well and truly stepped in it when you have pissed off the Mennonites.\u201d)<\/p>\n But so much more is happening. Americans all over the nation are recovering from the \u201cshock and awe\u201d blast and are digging in their heels, making their disgust with Trump known in ever-growing numbers and with ever-growing energy. We are pelting our Washington representatives with more than1,400 phone calls a minute, attending town hall meetings in record numbers and publicly blasting Maga representatives, confronting them with visits to their offices, joining or starting resistance organizations. The news media, which was largely absent during the presidential campaign and often acted cowardly after Trump was elected, is showing signs of growing a spine.<\/p>\n And don\u2019t forget the elections scheduled for later this year. More than 100,000 seats in 45 states will be decided this year at the local, state and national levels. Governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards \u2014 these positions are a vital line of defense against the Musk-Trump-Vance regime.<\/p>\n Bottom line: Americans are waking up and don\u2019t like what they are seeing in Trump and Musk, and that awareness is rapidly growing. So we are not doomed. We\u2019re down but certainly not out, and we\u2019re gaining fast. If we keep the faith, if we refuse to quit, if we press forward every day \u2013 and if we will vote! — we will win.<\/p>\n
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