For the world, Donald Trump personifies the "dumb and ugly" label that most people around the world attach to Americans. I think the French created it from their own "Bête et Méchant", having experienced first-hand their WWII liberators. Indeed, just as Americans think they're smart by using, abusing and exploiting other people like immigrants for their own petty little "interests", forgetting that they themselves started as illegal migrants to this land, so do the Europeans use, abuse, and exploit Americans as "liberators" when needed, as in the twentieth-century's two world wars, then rediscover the price of such liberation: Cheap, tacky, unhealthy, but very sincere dumbness and ugliness.
Even the English colonial crooks who genetically engineered Americans by digging up slime from the bottom of their gene pool barrel admit that they are disappointed by how degenerate their American mutant progeny turned out to be.
How do you know that Trump's policies are dumb and ugly? By their cheap unwarranted hateful racist cruelty. All European countries are deporting illegal migrants. During their terms, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were deporting as many illegals as Trump is today. But all these countries and people did it, or are doing it, with dignity, with respect for the human being, with compassion. But Trump and his inbred mongrels love to hate: Racism is in their DNA, and they love to brag about it. Trump's team of hoodlums and thugs have to dehumanize other people in the disgusting grotesque violent fanfare of their burlesque show.
Deep down, Donald Trump is onto something when he claims that the whole world is taking Americans for fools: He and the whole world know that Americans are shallow fools whose only measure of success is show-off and money. They have no other referential value with which to measure civilization. They are after all from a line of up-and-coming backward peasants who "arrived" and discovered civilization upon reaching these shores and quickly proceeded to exterminate it.
As the stench from the Donald Trump show begins to stink to high hell, many Americans are searching for whatever residual value might remain in the fleeting idea of America as humanity's last resort and a beacon on a hill. So far, only the inbred backwoods white trash of the slavery racist secessionist states still hang on to Trump like grim death, while Trump's policies reinforce to the world the idea that Americans are very much a dumb and ugly people to be avoided at all costs.
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Opinion
Trump is unpopular, polls show, and he's building an America most Americans hate
Rex Huppke, USA TODAY
Mon, July 21, 2025
President Donald Trump, in the eyes of Donald Trump and the toadies who populate his administration, is overseeing the most successful stretch of any president in our lifetimes.
That bent-reality view of what’s actually happening is, of course, pure and predictable propaganda. Even the kindest interpretation of public opinion polling on Trump and his unhinged leadership thus far tells us this: The president is wildly unpopular, and he is creating a crueler version of America that a sizable majority of voters reject.
Trump spent the weekend posting wildly on Truth Social and sharing glowing images of himself with the words “6 MONTHS OF WINNING” alongside AI-generated videos showing former President Barack Obama being arrested. You know, the kind of normal presidential stuff that self-confident, emotionally stable presidents usually post.
Trump thinks he's winning, but Americans see a big-time loser
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with Crown Prince of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa in the Oval Office of the White House on July 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
His vampiric deputy chief of staff and most-favored henchman, Stephen Miller, posted on X: “The most incredible opening 6 months to an American presidency in history.”
Like Miller, the architect of Trump’s draconian and increasingly cruel mass deportations, numbers don’t have a soul. But unlike Miller and all who’ve sold they’re souls to work with an opportunistic bully like Trump, numbers don’t lie.
So let’s take a look at what the numbers are saying about this allegedly amazing six months of presidential winning.
Trump's approval after six months stinks, by any measure
A CBS News poll conducted July 16 through July 18 found 58% of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president. Only 42% approve, a drop of a whopping 11 percentage points since a February CBS News poll.
That’s not good.
People hold a banner with the pictures of missing people during a "Good Trouble Lives On" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump and in remembrance of late U.S. Congressman and civil rights pioneer John Lewis, in New York City, July 17, 2025.
Citing Gallup polling, USA TODAY reported Trump’s June approval ratings during the first year of each of his two terms “are lower than any other modern president at the same time in their administrations.”
And polling averages from the New York Times to CNN to YouGov show Trump’s approval wallowing in the low 40s.
Trump's support on immigration – his big issue – has tanked
If you’re the person who is supposed to be president for all Americans, that is a far cry from “winning.” Although if you care only about yourself and legislated cruelty, as Trump clearly does, I suppose such things don’t matter.
People gather for a "Good Trouble Lives On" protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Phoenix Field Office on July 17, 2025.
Diving deeper into polling numbers, you can see how unpopular much of Trump’s “Golden Age” agenda is, even when it comes to issues he has long polled well on, like immigration and the economy.
The recent CBS News poll found only 44% approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, down from 10 percentage points from March.
Americans disapprove of Trump's hateful immigration policies
A Gallup poll released July 11 found only 35% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, with 62% disapproving and 45% strongly disapproving. Now that Americans are seeing masked ICE agents round up hardworking migrants and shuttle them off to foreign countries or lock them in detention centers surrounded by alligators, only about 30% of Americans say immigration should be reduced – that number was at 55% last year.
And there’s this from the same Gallup poll: “a record-high 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country.” Support for hiring more border agents has dropped 17 percentage points since last year, and only 38% of respondents want to see all undocumented immigrations deported.
A Pew Research Center survey last month noted: “About a quarter of U.S. adults (23%) say they worry a lot or some that they or someone close to them could be deported.”
Again, this is winning only if you want things your way and don’t care what a majority of your fellow citizens want, which has long been a defining characteristic of the MAGA movement.
Most believe Trump's policies will hurt them, their families and their friends
A recent AP-NORC poll found that about half of Americans “feel Trump’s policies have done more to hurt them” than help them, while only a quarter of respondents said Trump’s policies have helped them.
The CBS News poll found 60% of Americans oppose Trump’s tariffs on imported goods, only 36% approve of his handling of inflation, and only 25% of voters believe the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Trump recently signed will do anything to help them, while 47% think it will hurt them.
A Quinnipiac University poll released July 16 showed Trump sizably underwater on immigration, trade, the economy, deportations, foreign policy, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas war and tariffs.
On the Epstein scandal, Trump is flailing and failing
A protester holds a sign outside the White House demanding the release to all files related to Jeffrey Epstein in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2025.
And lest we forget the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the Quinnipiac poll found 63% of voters disapprove of the Trump Administration’s handling of the case.
Taken in total, there’s one inescapable conclusion: This has been six months of losing for President Trump and his administration, on virtually every issue. He is unpopular, the things he’s doing are unpopular, and that lack of popularity isn’t going to help him as the Epstein scandal continues to envelop his presidency.
Trump lies – numbers don't. Remember that next time he brags.
Trump can brag all he wants and keep declaring his own greatness, but anyone who has paid attention to him over the years knows these numbers are an assault on his fragile ego. That’s why he’s flailing so much right now, why his social-media account is a stream of babbling, self-congratulatory or authoritarian wish-casting nonsense.
Trump won’t tell you the truth. He won't even consider the truth himself.
That should make Americans like him even less.
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