Because he's putin's puppet.

It's become quite obvious to more people that tRump lies with almost every word he speaks. If not an outright lie, then it's a deception or insult. Most folks don't like or trust a chronic liar and that's a part of the low ratings. It creates an air of distrust.

That, and spite toward some of his policies such as separation and detention of children at the border........

and see if their lives or the lives of friends and family are getting better. You can't tell people that they are better off economically if their bank account says otherwise or if their town's main business is moving to Mexico. The damage Trump is doing to our economy will undoubtedly rival the Great Depression, which will surely please Vladimir Putin.

All through the campaign, he pumped people full of BS that things were going to be so much better (the greatest/so much winning) and told them how bad everything was for them under PBO's administration (very bad/the worst) - thereby creating massive expectations for change. Some of the stuff he promised would almost require divine intervention. Obviously, it ain't happened.

Therefore, if our economy had just remained the same as 2016, many would feel let down by their hero. From what I've read, in the next 5 to 10 years after any tax cut effects disappear, inflation gets worse, the cost of borrowing increases, demands for increased productivity worsen and wages continue to stagnate, these folks are going to be extremely stressed and disappointed.

Yet, Republicans will still somehow try to blame Democrats......

that the cost of healthcare, particularly prescriptions drugs is going through the roof the past year or so. This is an economic issue that affects people of all walks of life and political persuasion.

Trump's political rallies were just a lot of superficial showmanship, often not even planned ahead of time. He didn't care what he said, as long as the crowd reacted. His lack of specifics about policy were breathtaking - everything was going to be "great" and so very, very easy. In between bragging about himself and his many accomplishments, he tossed about the most generic adjectives to describe healthcare, the economy, the military, taxes, government, etc. "Great, tremendous, fantastic, terrific, largest, best, toughest, smartest, winning..............believe me."

And people believed him based on force of personality alone and his personality leaves as much to be desired as his competence and intellect. At least Harold Hill in The Music Man had a convincing sales pitch, a decent vocabulary, and a pleasing appearance. Apparently today ugly, mean, and stupid are marketable commodities.

The Flim-Flam Man (late 60s, great movie).

Quote from Wiki:
Mordecai C. Jones (Scott) – a self-styled "M.B.S., C.S., D.D. — Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing!" – is a drifting confidence trickster who makes his living defrauding people in the southern United States.

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Trump adds the Republican time-test methods of Frank Luntz (emotional appeal) and a carnival barker (loud exaggerations), but with the authoritarian bent that all conservatives seem to need to exist. Much of his skill of exaggeration comes from his years of carefully crafted real estate and casino scams.

When will humanity every learn that a strong egotistical personality is to be suspected, not respected? Although I'm not optimistic, I hope our society has been sufficiently inoculated with resistance to any future con man like him. One thing's for certain - the Trump name will go down in infamy as the new icon for liars, shady dealers, and the perfect example of who we do NOT want working in our government.

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were much more talented. I'd forgotten about the Flim-Flam man. Burt Lancaster in The Rain Main or Elmer Gantry come to mind as well. You could see how some people could get sucked in. I never understood how Trump got such a big audience on The Apprentice. He is god-awful on TV.

I am cautiously optimistic that we will survive, but I realize this can run in cycles and after a few decades, people begin to forget again and the same old shit comes to the surface again.

They do it everytime. Case in point Republicans blaming Obama for being responsible for "doubling the national debt" with never a mention of the catalyst for most of his spending or how he was bringing deficits back down. We're looking at the same thing all over again with Trump. He inherits an improving economy, enacts policies that will tank it again, and then a Democrat president will be left to clean it up and will be blamed for it by dirty, greedy, lying Republicans.

History repeats itself. You can see this coming, years away.

Increasing exploitation, in other words.

THIS is what Obama left, the good economy has nothing to do with this administration, they have done nothing to improve it, on the contrary, all the few decisions they have made, such as the tariff war, the tax cuts, its all going to reverse all the good accomplishments Obama made in his eight years.

People do not seem to understand that the economy does not change dramatically from one week to the next, for the pain to be felt there has to be some time, unless of course there is a war and factories start closing, spending dramatically stops.

If nothing positive happens in November, such as getting rid of republicans and making trump a lame duck, I give the economy a year, maybe two, then people will see the effects of a crooked administration, although I have no hope those who support this maniac will ever see it.

that the policies he has already enacted are going to do a lot of damage to the economy in time to become the big 2020 election issue, since Trump will still be in office and able to veto our legislative objectives. And of course Republicans will blame it on the Democrats majority instead of Trump's shit policies.