Donald Trump loves two things even more than he loves himself – gold adornment and sticking his name on things in return for money (mainly) or other forms of grifting.
His latest effort was exposed by Isaac Arnsdorf of The Washington Post (27/3).
It is hard not to have noticed that Trump loves Sharpie Pens. He uses them to highlight things and sometimes even spells correctly with them.
The latest from G. Elliott Morris.
ICE at airports: 53% disapprove of deploying ICE agents to airports. 59% disapprove of Trump rejecting the Senate DHS funding deal.
Airport chaos: 77% say conditions at airports are worse than usual, and 52% blame the Trump administration or Senate Republicans for the current chaos — nearly double the 25% who blame Democrats.
Donald Trump has hit a major milestone – he is now underwater – and doesn’t have a positive rating on any issue rating.
Meanwhile Trump – as the grifter in chief – has failed to stop insiders making huge profits by placing bets before a new official policy is announced.
The current Presidential approval rating shows that 37% approve of Trump’s job performance while 60% disapprove.
It’s hard to escape religion in Australia even though it plays an increasingly minor place in Australian society.
Our parliaments open with prayers despite many MP’s – like many among the general public – having no religion.
Yet the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute has recently published a report on religion and social cohesion in Australia, which found that religious affiliation has been declining in Australia with a deep decline in affiliation with Christianity over the past five decades.
“HISPANICS LOVE TRUMP” Donald Trump said in 2024. He was – for once – not boasting as he had won 48% of the Latino vote – more than any previous Republican presidential candidate had.
There was much analysis among pundits of the significance of this, and it was claimed to be a dramatic realignment of US politics as discussed in the last blog post.
Donald Trump may be destroying much of Iran but he’s also trashing his own ratings with voters.
G.Elliott Morris –now probably the most reliable US source of political data – has found that Trump has started a war that few Americans support.
He found that support for the US attack starts at 34% support and 44% oppose. The numbers were similar last year when Trump first bombed military targets in Iran just 16% supported getting involved in the Israel-Iran conflict with 60% of adults opposing military action.
The Trump War on Iran is fast becoming a modern-day version of the Crusades with US military and others framing the war in deeply religious terms.
Middle East Eye (MEE) has reported that a number of US military commanders have told soldiers that Trump is “anointed by Jesus” and would bring about his return to Earth as part of Armageddon.
The blog is taking a break for a few weeks.
Half of Americans think Donald Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.
Net approval of Trump’s handling of the Epstein investigation is minus 48 – meaning the share of Americans who strongly, or somewhat disapprove, minus the share who approve, is 34%.
The Lancet Medical Journal has re-assessed the Palestinian death toll and found that more than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two year war in Gaza – that’s 25,000 more than the initial toll announced by local authorities at the time.
The Guardian (19/2) reported that last month a senior Israel security officer had told Israeli journalists that the figures compiled by Gazan health authorities were broadly accurate – contradicting years of denial.