Let's see how well Trump is doing on that...
For the first time in more than a year, street drug deaths appear to be rising across the U.S. according to
a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest available data, compiled in January of this year, shows fatal overdoses over the previous 12-month period increased by roughly 1,400 deaths.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5436711/overdose-drugs-cdc
Unfortunately, tariffs caused a significant loss of jobs...
We're stuck in a pointless war. American troops are dying. Gasoline prices are soaring. Small wonder Trump's approval has fallen to the lowest point ever:
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to a new low in a devastating Fox News poll, with even parts of his own party beginning to drift away.
The poll, conducted March 20-23 among 1,001 registered voters, shows that just 41 percent of registered voters approve of Trump’s job performance, while 59 percent said they disapprove—the highest disapproval rating of either of his two terms. Nearly half of voters, 47 percent, said they strongly disapprove.
The slide marks a sharp deterioration from a year ago, when Trump’s standing was nearly even at 49 percent approval to 51 percent disapproval.
What makes the latest results especially striking is the erosion inside the GOP. Trump’s approval among Republicans dropped to 84 percent, his lowest level of the second term, down from 92 percent last March. The softening appears to be driven largely by non-MAGA Republicans, whose approval of Trump fell 11 points over the past year, from 70 percent to 59 percent.
It's not entirely Trump's Dementia Syndrome. His people, this time, were chosen more for their obedience than for their competence. His first administration had more independent, competent people. So things didn't fall apart then as they are falling apart now. But they also often thwarted things Trump wanted to do. Surprisingly, he learned from that experience, and made sure there was no one smarter than him on board this time.
You can't even answer the question if it is better for us to control our immigration
As you learned, it is immigration that is keeping our economy from falling into the same mess we see going on in Russia. A declining fertility rate means not enough workers to keep things going. Right now, immigration of new workers is taking care of that. The goal in controlling immigration should be, as it was in the Obama and Biden administrations, to keep dangerous criminals from coming in along with all the valuable workers. I really shouldn't have to tell you this twice.
or keep fentanyl off the street
I showed you how Trump's failure to control drug smuggling led to more fentanyl deaths in America. While he's focusing on arresting guys building roads and roofing buildings, the drug smugglers are having it easier.
It's nice to reduce waste. But as you seem to now realize, DOGE didn't identify any waste or identify fraud. And embarrassingly, Trump has had to rehire many of the people they randomly fired.
Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE
The General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, “didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions," a former GSA real estate official said.
The General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, “didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions," a former GSA real estate official said.
www.nbcnews.com
No one arrested for fraud, though. Partially, because the losers Musk hired had no idea how to do that. This was a huge additional administrative cost for the federal government. More waste, not less.
We can't agree in principle,
Principle has nothing whatever to do with Donald Trump or his administration.
let alone the practical application that Trump excels at.
This is a man who managed to go bankrupt, running a casino. In fact, he's gone under six times. That's not what one would ordinarily consider to be excelling. According to Forbes, Trump would be richer if he had just taken Daddy's money and put it into a good fund:
October, 2021
As of today, Trump would be an estimated $400 million richer if he had just put his father’s money in the index.
Trump’s fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn’t come roaring back.
www.forbes.com
Over the decades, my investments have beaten the index by a fair amount. Ironically, I'm a better businessman than Donald Trump.
