"What else is a raging, malignant narcissist to do to distract from his many failures at home? There’s child-rape accusations against him in the Epstein files, the sinking economy and his tariff loss from SCOTUS, his 36 percent approval rating with only 19 percent of voters strongly approving of him, etc., etc.!"

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #Iran #war #Epstein #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-war-on-iran-comes-earlier-every

"Most US adults think Donald Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction during his second presidency, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released the day before his State of the Union speech.

Fifty-five percent of adults feel that Trump is changing the country for the worse, a 13-point increase from around the same time of his first presidency, the survey conducted from 27-30 January found."

~ Eric Berger

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #ApprovalRating
/10

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/23/trump-poll-state-of-the-union

"International relations are in crisis, and wars that the people absolutely do not want appear to be looming on Trump’s horizon. And then there’s the devastating blow that the normally Trump-friendly Supreme Court dealt to the tariffs at the heart of the president’s miserable excuse for an economic plan."

Nichols recommends tuning into Summer Lee's response to the State of the Union (link below).

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #ApprovalRating
/8

https://workingfamilies.org/2026/02/watch-2026-wfp-response-to-the-state-of-the-union/

"If that weren’t enough, results from special elections across the country suggest that independent voters are swinging toward Democratic candidates. Stock markets are in turmoil. Americans are in open revolt against the data centers that are the most easily targeted face of the tech-bro AI grift that the White House has so enthusiastically endorsed."

#Trump #StateoftheUnion #ApprovalRating
/7

"The Washington Post poll found that only 34 percent approved of his handling of [tariffs], versus 64 percent who disapproved. That’s 30 points underwater.

Fox News, of all places, displayed this graphic—a very striking graphic of those numbers on tariffs that was flagged by the seemingly tireless Aaron Rupar. It was really a powerful image. Now, Trump watches Fox News, so he probably saw these numbers."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/17

https://newrepublic.com/article/206948/trump-angered-fresh-slide-polls-even-fox-admits-he-tanking

"What else is a raging, malignant narcissist to do to distract from his many failures at home? There’s child-rape accusations against him in the Epstein files, the sinking economy and his tariff loss from SCOTUS, his 36 percent approval rating with only 19 percent of voters strongly approving of him, etc., etc.!"

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #Iran #war #Epstein #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-war-on-iran-comes-earlier-every

"The Washington Post poll found that only 34 percent approved of his handling of [tariffs], versus 64 percent who disapproved. That’s 30 points underwater.

Fox News, of all places, displayed this graphic—a very striking graphic of those numbers on tariffs that was flagged by the seemingly tireless Aaron Rupar. It was really a powerful image. Now, Trump watches Fox News, so he probably saw these numbers."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/17

https://newrepublic.com/article/206948/trump-angered-fresh-slide-polls-even-fox-admits-he-tanking

"It is a self-inflicted political and legal disaster—and he has no one to blame but himself."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/16

"Trump could have done the smart thing and used the Supreme Court’s ruling as an off-ramp from his disastrous tariff policy—and then blamed the Court for any continued economic fallout.

Instead, Trump lashed out and alienated the 'swing' members of the Court, including a critical vote from Justice Gorsuch, all while reinstating tariffs for up to 150 days and forcing the GOP-led Congress to vote on them as voters focus on the midterms."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/15

"It was inevitable that Trump would go off on social media and in his public speeches against the justices who dared tell him that his powers were limited by law. But even for Trump, this time he took things a bit far. He personally attacked the justices, even claiming, without evidence, that they were 'swayed for foreign interests.'”

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/14

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump-should-have-taken-the-loss

"A bad policy choice was made. The courts say it exceeded legal authority. The costs landed overwhelmingly on consumers. And the refund structure is tilted toward corporations.

This is the moment for a new kind of populist demand.

This is not performative outrage, or a culture-war distraction. It’s a single, simple civic insistence: Return the money to the people who paid it."

~ Lawrence Winnerman

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/12

https://www.blueamp.co/p/we-want-our-1700-back

"As we wait for however many months and years of our taxpayer dollars going towards courts telling Trump he can’t do what he just did, as we have for the better part of the past decade of our lives, forward-thinking companies and states are already lining up for a slice of some $133 billion in refunds. Will you, Kevin and Karen Consumer, ever see any of your money again? LOL."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/13

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-gonna-ignore-mean-supreme-court

"A bad policy choice was made. The courts say it exceeded legal authority. The costs landed overwhelmingly on consumers. And the refund structure is tilted toward corporations.

This is the moment for a new kind of populist demand.

This is not performative outrage, or a culture-war distraction. It’s a single, simple civic insistence: Return the money to the people who paid it."

~ Lawrence Winnerman

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/12

https://www.blueamp.co/p/we-want-our-1700-back

"We could hope that the Supreme Court smacking his hand would serve as a lesson for Trump, but, as his retaliatory 15% global tariff shows, he just won’t learn. We should all remember that when he tries to sell us all a bill of good[s] Tuesday night."

~ April Ryan

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating #StateoftheUnion
/11

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/americans-and-the-supreme-court-agree

"They allowed him to punish governments he didn’t like, demand subservience from other countries as the price of lower tariffs, and offer waivers and exemptions to companies that put money in his own pocket. And maybe Trump can’t bear the thought of losing that power."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/10

"Why this desperate attempt to keep tariffs high? A MAGA loyalist would say it’s to preserve what those illegal tariffs have accomplished. But even before they were struck down, the tariffs had achieved none of their stated goals. In fact, they had put those goals further out of reach. ...

It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #ApprovalRating
/9

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-tariffs

"This reporting has created the false impression that the temporary 15% measure is on firmer legal footing than the tariffs that were just struck down by the Supreme Court. In reality, the new tariffs are just as illegal as the ones they replaced."

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #media #ApprovalRating
/8

"Several prominent outlets falsely reported that the Trade Act gives Trump the legal authority to impose temporary tariffs of up to 15% in response to trade deficits." Judd Legum names Axios, Businesss Insider, The Hill, Forbes, CNBC, News Nation.

"These outlets are spreading misinformation about the law."

~ Judd Legum

#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #media #ApprovalRating
/7

https://popular.info/p/trumps-new-tariffs-are-just-as-illegal

"So Epstein buddies Andrew and Mandelson have been arrested in the UK. And in the US? Zero, zip, nada. At least the British gave us the perp-walk shots. But I fear that any Americans seeking real justice will have to wait, and wait, and wait."

~ Marina Hyde

#Epstein #Trump #AndrewMountbatten #PeterMandelson #EconomicElites #EpsteinClass #pedophiles #coverup #ApprovalRating
/3

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/24/epstein-buddies-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-peter-mandelson-arrested