Thursday, July 23, 2026
Latest Job Approval Numbers For Donald Trump
The chart above reflects the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between July 17th and 20th of a nationwide sample of 1,602 adults (including 1,432 registered voters). The Margin of error is 3.3 points for adults and 3.2 points for registered voters.
Net Approval Of Trump's Handling Of The Economy Is Negative 42 Points
The chart above reflects the results of the American Research Group Poll -- done between July 16th and 20th of a nationwide sample of 1,000 adults, with a 3 point margin of error.
Trump Wants To Fatten His Bank Account By Selling Insider Trading Info
Starting August 1, Trump Media and Technology Group will launch a new data feed aimed at high-frequency trading firms whose profits are made by making trades a fraction of a second faster than everyone else.
It will provide “licensed, real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.” In other words, the feed will let you know what Trump has said before anyone else knows, meaning it’s well worth the tab that Truth Social will charge to see Trump’s posts before the rest of the public sees them — up to $100,000 per month.
That’s a pittance relative to what could be made, because Trump’s words on Truth Social — about his war in Iran, about his latest tariffs, about the Fed — have caused the stock market to soar or drop. So, if you’re a trader on Wall Street, you’ll make millions if you know what he’s posting a fraction of a second before everyone else knows. Perhaps more to the point, if you’re behind on that news, “you’ll get crushed,” as one hedge-fund executive told the Financial Times.
No wonder Trump Media’s interim CEO Kevin McGurn is gloating that the feed will “become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders.” Trump Media has been unprofitable until now.
Trump, of course, is the company’s largest shareholder.
The scheme is Trump’s most brazen way to illegally profit off his presidency and enrich his Wall Street insider friends.
I say illegally because the Constitution lists “bribery” as a reason to remove a president from office, and the federal ban on bribing public officials also expressly applies to a president. (Whether these provisions can be enforced against a president who’s been given blanket immunity from “official acts” by the Supreme Court is another matter.)
The good news, though, is Americans are catching on to insider trading, and they hate it — so much so that House Republican leaders are now teeing up a vote this week on a bill that would create new guardrails for lawmakers trading stocks.
The “Stop Insider Trading Act” would bar members of Congress and their families from purchasing new shares of stock and require them to file a notice of their plans to sell shares at least seven days ahead of time.
Most Democrats say the measure doesn’t go far enough because it allows members to keep shares of stock they already own, in contrast with a competing bipartisan proposal that bars members from trading individual shares of stock altogether. And one provision Republicans have snuck into the measure —and that must be removed if they want any Democratic votes — deters mail-in voting.
The point is that at the same time Trump is rolling out a new tool to give traders more immediate access to his market-moving posts on Truth Social — if they’ll pay him up to $100,000 a month for it — Congress is limiting how members can profit from inside information they obtain through elected office.
The American public is so disgusted by corruption in Washington that even Republican lawmakers want something to show they’re not in the swamp.
Trump doesn’t give a damn about the public’s mounting revulsion at corruption. He’s not up for reelection. He doesn’t care that his polls are in the cellar. All he wants to do is make even more money, exert more power, and get even with people who have gotten in his way.
But the public wants his swamp drained.
Democrats, take note. Three months from now, ask Americans two related questions: Do they think they’re better off than they were before Trump became president again? Do they approve of the most corrupt White House in American history?
The answer to both will be a resounding no. And the best way for Americans to act on their disgust will be to kick the Republican bums out.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Most Voters Don't Have Confidence In ICE (And Think Its Violence Is Unnecessary)
The charts above reflect the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between July 17th and 20th of a nationwide sample of 1,432 registered voters. The margin of error is 3.2 points.
Most Americans Blame Trump For The Price Of Gas
These charts are from the Strength in Numbers / Verasight Poll -- done between July 14th and 17th of a nationwide sample of 1,514 adults, with a 2.6 point margin of error.
Why Is Trump Increasing The Violence At Home And Abroad?
The following is by Robert Reich:
In response to public outrage following ICE’s recent murders in Houston and Maine, the Department of Homeland Security moved to pause vehicle stops. But the pause reportedly infuriated Trump, who ordered ICE to continue the stops. ICE’s arrests and aggression continue to escalate.
Trump’s war with Iran is also escalating, with the U.S. striking critical infrastructure sites including power stations and bridges, and Iran attacking a U.S. base in Jordan, killing two American troops (one is still missing).
I think the two killing fields are related, and the question I’ve been pondering is why Trump’s violence is growing both at home and abroad?
It can’t be because the violence is achieving Trump’s stated objectives. Illegal immigration was already down to a trickle before ICE’s recent violent resurgence. The escalating bombing of Iran is fortifying its militant leaders, causing even more Iranians to become anti-American, and widening the war.
Nor is Trump’s escalating violence popular with American voters. In fact, most Americans have turned against ICE and against Trump’s war in Iran. Strikingly,Trump has lost enthusiasm even among many fellow Republicans, a core source of his power for more than a decade.
So why is Trump escalating the violence, at home and abroad?
At first I thought it was to justify Trump’s use of emergency powers in the midterm elections — giving him trumped-up reasons to deploy troops at voting places, curtail times and places of voting, and confiscate voting lists and machines.
That may still be a motive, although his address to the nation last Thursday night focused on fake reports of fraudulent voting rather than Iranian aggression or a fake resurgence of immigration.
So, is there any other reason for Trump’s escalating violence at home and abroad?
As Americans and much of the rest of the world turn on Trump (and, by extension, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller), I can’t help but wonder whether they feel their manhood to be under assault.
Remember, this is a president who staged a cage match on the South Lawn of the White House to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday and incited an attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
It’s also a secretary of defense who’s testing troops for their levels of testosterone.
A vice president who excoriates “childless cat ladies” and other “people without children” for allegedly having no stake in the nation’s future.
And a White House deputy chief of staff who’s taunting Texas senatorial candidate James Talarico for having “less testosterone” than his opponent and emitting “soy milk” when his blood is drawn.
In the Trump manosphere, violence is seen as a sign of virility. When that virility is challenged, the automatic response is to escalate the violence.
Hence, the growing mayhem in Trump’s two killing fields.
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