Majority of Americans Unconvinced Trump Can Handle Nation's Top Job

[portlander23]

Majority of Americans Unconvinced Trump Can Handle Nation's Top Job
Jon Queally
Common Dreams

With his inauguration now less than three weeks away, a new survey shows a majority of the American people are far from confident that Donald Trump, a former reality television star who won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, is up to the major tasks entrusted to the President of the United States.

According to results released by Gallup on Monday, "less than half of Americans are confident in [Trump's] ability to handle an international crisis (46%), to use military force wisely (47%) or to prevent major scandals in his administration (44%)."

Those numbers are far lower than measures taken on Trump's most recent predecessors—Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton—all of whom had percentages close to 70% in each of those categories prior to their taking office.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Pretty much reflects the popular vote....

[LongTomH]

2. Duhhh!!!! So what else is news, Bubby???

Oh, and Trump isn't a reality TV star, he's an UNREALITY TV star.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. American Brexit consumers' regret.

It was fun to vote for him, wasn't it?

But you're married to him now and no divorce in sight.

[Calculating]

4. Well the MAJORITY didn't want him

So this makes perfect sense.

[Binkie The Clown]

5. Time to start circulating a recall petition. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. No such thing exists for presidents.

We have to wait until he fucks up badly enough for even the GOPers realize he ought to be impeached, which shouldn't be too long, but then we get Mike Pence so we're screwed anyhow.

[Binkie The Clown]

8. "We the people" should make it exist then. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. "We the people" would have to make it exist by Constitutional amendment.

Don't hold your breath: Amendment proposals may be adopted and sent to the states for ratification by either:
A two-thirds vote of members present in both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States Congress; or a two-thirds vote of a national convention called by Congress at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states. (This method has never been used.) Then 3/4 of the states have to ratify it.

[guillaumeb]

6. Only 24% voted for Trump. In view of that, this is not surprising. eom

[mythology]

10. Except Trump's percentage of the potential electorate

isn't that different than Obama's, Bush's or Clinton's. But Trump has no governing experience and hasn't shown any desire to try to learn in the short term.

[Glassunion]

11. In other news: Majority of Americans voted for the Other Candidate.

[Initech]

12. He has done nothing to prove he's worthy of being president.

All he's done is Tweet very negatively and stupidly. At this point I wouldn't trust him to be president of a McDonald's franchise.

[Takket]

13. A similar poll was held on November 8th

it was conducted by about 130 million people, but was overridden by another poll on December 19th held among 538 people.