Trump Threatens Investigations as Polls & FOX Pundits Turn on Him

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

Donald Trump’s spiraling faster than one of his taxpayer-funded golf carts on a lawn filled with banana peels, and it’s glorious to watch. Poll after poll are 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 of liars and scoundrels at halfway-homes like Newsmax and The Heritage Foundation still fluffing his MyPillow.

His approval ratings—WaPo has him at 39%!—are backstroking to somewhere between “shark attack” and “airplane food.” And true to Trump form, he’s reacting like a toddler denied his third Happy Meal: whining, flailing and flooding Truth Social with a Category 5 tantrum (which hay may not have even sharpied).

His solution? He wants to investigate the pollsters producing bad numbers for him. Ya know, like a normal person would.

Meanwhile, a 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 bleeding support among seniors. It’s almost like—as we predicted—firing his voters from government jobs because it gives Elon a woody, crashing their 401ks and bankrupting their farms and ranches—by disappearing their labor force to the Hotel San Salvador—is not only grossly immoral, but preposterously fucking stupid?

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 til 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 plan is more Putin puppetry than it is foreign policy. When Fox anchors start sounding like Rachel Maddow in covering your dingy, whimsical, baby-formula-based plans to self-destruct America, you know the wheels have officially fallen off Trump Force One.

Trump's economic “strategy”—blow up supply chains, raise the price of labor, tax American businesses and consumers with deranged tariffs, tank the stock market—has aged about as well as a ketchup-sloshed, Trump Steak left poolside at the Mar-a-Bed Bug in August. And with Trump responding to Putin’s sociopathic targeting of children in Kiev by screeching “Vladimir Stop,” like a sixth grader whose BFF just asked his crush out to the dance, you begin to see why his people are ditching him.

So even Rupert Murdoch’s minions—at least at the moment—are gingerly backing away. No wonder Trump is sobbing into his 14th Diet Coke of the day—the only thing sinking faster than his poll numbers is the loyalty of those who once chanted the spray-painted, animal balloon’s name.

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