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The Walls Are Closing In—And It's No Longer Just in His Head

Donald Trump is spiraling faster than a one of his taxpayer-funded golf carts on a wet lawn, and it’s glorious to watch. Poll after poll is dropping like anvils on his bloated ego, showing him at historic lows not seen in 80 years—and that’s with an entire right-wing media apparatus or liars and scoundrels at places like Newsmax and The Heritage Foundation still fluffing his MyPillow.

His approval ratings—WaPo has him at 39%!—are now backstroking somewhere between “shark attack” and “airplane food.” And true to Trump form, he’s reacting like a toddler denied him his third Happy Meal: whining, flailing, and flooding Truth Social with a Category 5 tantrum (he may have sharpied this one, too).

Yes, he wants to investigate the pollsters. Ya know, like any normal person would.

The guy who claimed to be “the most popular president ever” is supported by only one third of independents, down 10% among white voters w/out a college degree and has bled support among seniors. It’s almost like—as WE predicted—firing his voters from their government jobs because it gives Elon a woody, crashing their 401ks and bankrupting their farms, ranches and businesses by disappearing their labor force (and sometimes relatives) to the Hotel San Salvador isn’t smart?

Could this be why he’s now trying to illegally stop Democrats from fundraising?

Even Fox News Is Packing the Lifeboats

And if you thought Trump's meltdown was funny, wait until you see his reaction to Fox News putting down the pom-poms just for a moment and reporting, gasp, that his economy’s a disaster and his Ukraine policy looks more like Putin puppetry than foreign policy. When Fox anchors start sounding like Rachel Maddow in how they see your dingy, whimsical, baby-formula-based plans to self-destruct America, you know the wheels have officially fallen off.

Trump's economic “strategy”—blow up supply chains, raise the price of labor, tax American businesses and people with deranged tariffs, tank the stock market—has all aged about as well as a ketchup-sloshed, Trump Steak left on a Mar-a-Bed Bug porche in August. And with Trump responding to Putin’s sociopathic bombing of children in Kiev by screeching “Vladimir Stop,” like he’s a sixth grader whose BFF just asked his crush to the prom dance, well, these are reasons he may just be losing some people.

So even Rupert Murdoch’s minions—at least at the moment—are gingerly backing away. No wonder Trump is sobbing into his Diet Coke at Mar-a-Bed Bug—the only thing sinking faster than his poll numbers is the loyalty of the people who once chanted the spray-painted animal balloon’s name.

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• Remember to check out my new Substack show—Amped Up w/ Cliff Schecter—every Thursday at 2pm et, which I’m lucky to co-host with Emmy Award winning former MSNBC/CNN anchor, David Shuster! This week we had the awesome Fred Wellman on—from a multi-generation-veteran family, former head of The Lincoln Project—who is helping organize the June 6th veterans march on DC!

• For a longer deep-dive into how Trump is spiraling even more behind closed doors, so nuts his staff is now leaking it, we discuss here.

• We do much media criticism here. It’s because there’s no way to analyze our predicament without including their near-total (w/ some exceptions) abrogation of their role in our Constitution—to expose truth, not gossip. To not pretend both sides are equal, or normalize fascism, but to inform. Put simply: Even with our other issues, we wouldn’t be here if they did their jobs. More on that here.

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