Month: April 2017

Trump’s Numbers Are Down Across the Board

Buck Banks

35%

A new Quinnipiac poll finds President Trump has a negative 35% to 57% job approval rating. In addition, voters opinions of some of Trump’s personal qualities are mostly negative:

  • 61% to 34% that he is not honest
  • 55% to 40% that he does not have good leadership skills
  • 57% to 39% that he does not care about average Americans
  • 66% to 29% that he is not level-headed
  • 64% to 33% that he is a strong person
  • 61% to 34% that he does not share their values

    • Said pollster Tim Malloy: “Trump continues to struggle, even among his most loyal supporters. Many of them would be hard pressed to see even a sliver of a silver lining in this troubling downward spiral.”

    Cummings: Bannon Is a White Supremicist

    Buck Banks

    “In a way he would be pleased to have seen the first African-American elected president, to have seen many doors opened for people like me and others who now have opportunities that would not have had them back then. But at the same time, when we see a guy like Bannon, who is, as far as I’m concerned, a white supremacist-type person, sitting in the White House — sitting in the White House — and I’m paying his salary, I think he would be very disappointed.”

    — Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who said this morning that Martin Luther King, Jr. “would be very disappointed” by the political realities of 2017 and especially by the presence of Steve Bannon — who he described as a “white supremacist-type” — in the White House, Politico reports.

    The Coal Industry Employs Fewer People than Arby’s

    Buck Banks

    76,572

    Number of people employed in the coal industry in 2014, the latest year for which data is available, reports the Washington Post. “Although 76,000 might seem like a large number, consider that similar numbers of people are employed by, say, the bowling (69,088) and skiing (75,036) industries… Looking at the level of individual businesses, the coal industry in 2014 (76,572) employed about as many as Whole Foods (72,650), and fewer workers than Arby’s (close to 80,000), Dollar General (105,000) or J.C. Penney (114,000). The country’s largest private employer, Walmart (2.2 million employees) provides roughly 28 times as many jobs as coal.”