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RNC Chair Blames Trump’s Bad Approval Rating On (Checks Notes) Joe Biden

Trump currently has low marks with voters and Joe Gruters is laying the blame on his predecessor.

The current head of the Republican National Committee is apparently blaming President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings on (checks notes) Joe Biden.

The Republican Party currently controls the presidency, Congress and the Supreme Court ― and, frankly, some terrible approval ratings thanks to Trump.

But a new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that only 33% of Americans approve of the president’s performance while 64% disapprove. It’s his lowest approval since his first term in December 2017.

Considering the midterms are just a few months away, the news obviously isn’t great for the party overall, but RNC Chairman Joe Gruters is prepared. Prepared to blame anything but Trump for her own failures, that is.

Gruters addressed the low approval ratings during a Friday interview on NewsNation.

But if you thought he was going to concede that rising inflation, high gas costs and the war in Iran might be blamed for the bad polling numbers, you’d be dead wrong.

Instead, he decided to follow the lead of previous Republican officials and blame Biden, who, you might remember, hasn’t been president since Jan. 20, 2025.

After host Markie Martin noted that the economy is the biggest factor “when it comes to elections,” she asked, “How do you convince people you’re the right choice to make things like gas and groceries cheaper — and not the Dems?”

Gruters suggested the upcoming midterm convention might help win voters, before suggesting the real culprit to the current political predicament is a man who is no longer in power.

“The president is still dealing with the Biden issues that were left over under the disastrous four years they ruled,” Gruters said before falsely claiming gas prices were higher under Biden.

He also mentioned the Iran war is a factor, despite it being Trump’s doing entirely.



The unemployment rate in January 2025: 4.0%
The inflation rate in January 2025: 3.0%
The unemployment rate in July 2026: 4.1%
The inflation rate in July 2026: 3.4%

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rnc-...88505e4b021f20f8897c9?ncid=NEWSSTAND0001

There are replies that point out this is nuts but some of the language can not be posted here. This is what BDS looks and sounds like.

I've posted enough smart posts that you ignore to no longer bother with being concerned with what you think. If in fact you do think. No matter what trump says or does you compare it to someone blowing their nose. In your world it appears that's what you deem as "smart". No wonder you're confused.

Oh look, the little tyrant pens his smartest post of the day.

Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview

The Pentagon on Friday fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter, the editor said. He said he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview he gave that objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military.

Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper that is partly funded by the Pentagon but has a long legacy of editorial independence, told The Associated Press that he and the others had received notices of separation.

The moves come at a time when the Trump administration, in its second term, has been increasingly aggressive and combative toward the news media — including sharply curtailing Pentagon access for the press corps that covers the Defense Department. Trump or other parts of the executive branch have also, in policy and in the courts, grappled with The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and The New York Times — in addition to using the FCC to target broadcast networks.

Slavin said he was being fired “for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line.” He said he stands by the principle “that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent.”

Earlier this week, publisher Max Lederer announced his retirement effective at the end of September. He too received a separation notice, according to Slavin, as did Middle East reporter Lara Korte, who was cited for the same CBS interview as Slavin. Neither Lederer nor Korte immediately responded to requests for comment.

Lederer made his announcement a few weeks after the Pentagon installed a new deputy publisher, an active duty service member, under Lederer at the newspaper without his prior knowledge. Three Democratic senators on Thursday wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, asking why the new deputy — Navy Capt. William Urban — had been installed.

It was unclear whether Urban would now become the new publisher. In an email message to the AP, Urban said, “I am currently the Military Deputy to the Publisher. I can’t comment on what my role will be in the future.”

The retirement of Lederer, who had been at Stars and Stripes for three decades and publisher since 2007, comes as Hegseth’s Pentagon moves to exert editorial control and eliminate what it asserts are “woke distractions.”

Lederer, the second full-time civilian in the position, wrote in a staff memo that it had “become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization.”

In April, the Pentagon fired Jacqueline Smith, ombudsman for the newspaper, whose job had been to safeguard editorial independence.

https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-media-d42affb0c17fef31c6089645c8dbbe70

Control the narrative at all costs.....

MAGA by importing beef from other countries? And here we were told that imports were bad and tariffs would insure more American product would be purchased..............

Trump announces plan to lower beef prices, but ranchers and some Republicans are already balking

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration will allow more beef to be temporarily imported into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs, as he remains under pressure to cut costs and address affordability issues ahead of November’s midterms.

Beef prices have climbed to record highs amid a sharp drop in the number of U.S. cattle, consistent consumer demand and limits on cattle from Mexico, where the animals are facing a flesh-eating pest. The U.S. president has also imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil, a major beef exporter.

The president’s plan, however, drew immediate skepticism from agricultural experts and backlash from cattle ranchers and conservative rural-state Republicans. Ranchers, normally some of the president’s biggest supporters, are enjoying some rare profitable years and worry cheap beef imports will reduce cattle prices — and with it, the incentive to increase herd sizes.

“We all want lower grocery prices, but as I’ve said for months, we cannot do it at the expense of American producers,” Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., said in a statement. “Flooding the market with foreign beef hurts our livestock industry and undermines the long-term solution: growing the U.S. cattle herd to meet demand.”

Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said in a social media post just hours after Trump’s announcement that the president’s “heart is in the right place,” but importing beef will “harm our ranching families who feed the nation.”

The deal, Trump said, allows up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported into the U.S. for the next 90 days without activating an “out of quota” tariff, which is a tax that goes into effect once a certain quantity of that product enters the country.

The president said on social media that he had committed to ensuring the imported beef would be sold at 25% below current market rates, making it cheaper for American consumers. A White House official said the deal is with foreign beef exporters who have agreed to the discount on beef.

“You don’t put America first by putting U.S. cattle producers last,” U.S. Cattlemen’s Association President Justin Tupper said in a statement. “This move will weaken our markets and gamble with food safety in the process.”

The president’s announcement and other market interventions sacrifice “long-term stability for short term messaging,” Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said in a statement.

Glynn Tonsor, a professor at Kansas State University who focuses on the cattle and beef industry, said he would like to see more details about the latest deal but that his immediate assessment was that it wouldn’t have a big effect on prices.

That’s because 300,000 metric tons amounts to roughly 3% of what Americans eat yearly, he said. “The relative magnitude we are talking about is pretty small.”

David Anderson, professor of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University, said he was skeptical other countries could redirect so much beef to the U.S. in such a short time period.

“Is that even achievable?” he questioned in a phone interview.

The White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that has yet to be finalized, said the beef in question is lean beef trimmings that are used for ground beef production. Trump plans to sign an executive order formalizing the directive within two weeks, the official said. The administration made a push last year to buy more beef from Argentina to try to bring down prices.

The president said Friday that his plan would help grow the U.S. cattle supply, which is the smallest it’s been in decades. Some ranchers and experts said the opposite effect was more likely.

“Imports have been a major contributor to the decline in the U.S. cattle inventory,” said Bill Bullard, the CEO of the R-CALF USA, which represents independent cattle producers. “Using more imports today will exacerbate that decline and will prevent herd expansion.”

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-beef-prices-ranchers-e0e3dd60ae754d647527c7734a091edf

Cattle ranchers like the farmers before them are finding out what it feels like when trump stabs you in the back in exchange for all of the support you have given him.

R.I.P. Frank

First Dusty and now Frank. Two out of three of them gone.

Sweet. Thanks for posting that. I hadn't already seen it 39 times.

Quick question... do you think we can fairly predict the Browns record this year based on their results from 2010-2024? Would that be a good metric?

You just #cherrypicked a paragraph from your study. A study that CLEARLY shows that illegal immigrants are rising above all other "categories" for committing crimes since 2022. That's probably not important though, since it was only the middle of 10 million crossing the border unchecked, right?






So, from that standpoint, the entire argument falls flat. Just like I don't care that Colt McCoy had 6 TD passes in 2010, I also don't care about some thinktank that has a "methodology" that reads like a TOS for a subprime mortgage.

Also, that dude above, with 175 police encounters, 30 arrests, multiple stabbings? With the "methodology" used by your fancy thinktank, that counts as ONE CRIME because they're only counting incarcerations... and it would be zero if he hadn't killed someone... because nobody in that area was ever going to lock him up for anything less.

This is the crux of my argument. I copied a paragraph below.
https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper...-2024-demographics-american-imprisonment

All immigrants, both legal and illegal, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans. The 2024 native-born American incarceration rate of 1,195 per 100,000 natives is the highest of the three groups analyzed. Legal immigrants have the lowest incarceration rate, at 303 per 100,000 legal immigrants in 2024. Illegal immigrants have an incarceration rate of 674 per 100,000 illegal immigrants, higher than legal immigrants but also lower than native-born Americans.

I'll add my own caveat that I believe the illegal immigrant rate to be affected by under-reporting, so go ahead and add that asterisk to that number if you agree, but I do NOT believe that it affects the overall point that illegal immigrants are a large source of the violent crime in the US.

From that, if the point is to address violent crime in America then I don't understand the fixation on the group that does the least of amount of it. Google AI is telling me that there are roughly 1500-1800 stabbing deaths per year.

Capabilities: Filling empty candy dishes

J-Dubs seems like the kind of guy that called Jimmy Haslam "Dad" after the second time meeting him.

Yeah but those 35k thousand people live in Gaza and are Palestinians so that makes it okay.

Love is telling people hard truths?

Ok - I have some love for you. You are an idiot that can't think for themselves and parrot the worst populist and cultish nonsense and you wrap it up in your own warped religious mumbo jumbo.... the epitome of this is when you try to justify the slaying of 35,000+ innocent women and children in Gaza. You need help and hard truths - not hate but love and serious phycological help.

You love laws until they don't line up with your religion. Then you want to change them. Just because people aren't like you in their sexual or gender identity does not make them mentally ill or deviants. Stop with your superiority complex. When one of them tries to "convert you or force you to believe like they do", you know, the way you want laws to force everyone to live according to your religious beliefs, let me know.

What you are attempting to do is tell other parents how to raise their children and make those decisions for them when you have no right to do so.

You know this means I love you because I'm telling you the hard truth.

Thanks trump!

Where you are wrong is it is not hate for the illegal immigrant, it is actual love of our laws. America is a land of immigrants, and we want people to come here the right way. Legal way. If someone comes here illegally breaking our laws, they have already shown they have no respect for our country, our laws, our way of life and then commit crimes like rape and murder and those heinous crimes are very much avoidable. If us citizens actual hate, we hate our laws being broken. Society will collapse if everyone breaks laws.

As for Trans. Those people need help and not encouraged. They are sexual deviants that need to seek medical help. No hate. In reality love is telling people the hard truths. Acceptance is not love. If a child is running with a knife in their hands and we accept that behavior, we are not showing love to the child. Why, because we know that the child could hurt themselves with that knife. So, in love we correct that behavior. Accepting Trans is allowing people to hurt themselves. As children we should not allow that. As adults that is their right if they choose to hurt themselves. Acceptance just adds approval to them hurting themselves.

Here is something that's really funny. Trump has his latest edition of Stormy Daniels without the porn star resume' listed as his special assistant and executive assistant to President so now the taxpayers are footing the bill for his hooker.

According to RFK Jr. he must be a victim of the MMR vaccine.

Not really an accurate statement as of right now.


Lowest approval ever recorded Harry Truman 22% (Feb. 1952)
2nd-lowest approval Richard Nixon 24% (1974)
Highest disapproval recorded George W. Bush 71% disapprove (Oct. 2008)
Lowest average approval over a completed presidency Donald Trump, first term 41.1%
2nd-lowest average Joe Biden 42.2%

More than a little ironic to poke fun at anyone's X account .... when Trump posts the most unhinged things imaginable, ALL IN CAPI|TALS and with the wohrst speling imaginible.

I think this is just part of the populist politics of the day. Whether in the USA or here in the UK where I am now ... regardless of the actual facts, it's an emotional subject that gets the public riled up when you talk about immigrants and put a spotlight on the crimes they commit & try to take something and make it look more widespread and a bigger thing than it might be.

The populist political "gotcha" is to say that any life lost to an illegal immigrant is one that is preventable or shouldn't happen. It's a proposition that somehow losing your loved one to an illegal who shouldn't be here is more devastating than if you you'd lost your loved one to another type of murder/atrocity ... I'm not sure I agree. Losing anyone you love is tragic. Period. Claiming that it was avoidable because the culprit shouldn't have been there ... I don't buy it. People shouldn't speed, but they do and people die as a consequence sometimes. People shouldn't drink and drive - but they do. And lives are lost as a result each year. etc etc etc .

In the US - the reality is - just looking at CHIILD DEATHS by firearms ... about 4,600 per year.
There's about 12,000 deaths per year as a result of drunk drivers.
There **might** be 350-360 homicides by illegal immigrants each year ...

The 350+ lives lost to illegal immigrants are tragic. And I don't have a split between illegal immigrants taking other immigrants lives vs US citizens - and it doesn't matter. But the disproportionate attention and airplay on SM of this issue is the same modus operandi as the attention the Trans community gets. And essentially it's down to populist politics - create hate and an emotional response rather than a rationale nuanced review of things.