Trump’s popularity fake

Despite what Donald Trump says about “fake news,” the latest Gallup poll finds his job approval rating among Americans has dropped further to 37 percent. This is lower than at any time during President Obama’s eight-year term.

This was followed by FBI Director Comey’s testimony to a congressional panel that Trump’s own “fake news” that Obama had wiretapped Trump Towers was pure fiction. There was “no evidence” to support Trump’s tweets. Also, the FBI director announced publicly that an investigation is ongoing into possible connections between the Russian government and Trump campaign officials to influence the 2016 presidential election.

In that election, Trump was the first president since 1876 to lose the popular vote by more than 2 percent and still win an Electoral College majority. He achieved that victory by winning five swing states with less than 50 percent of the vote.

From the initiatives in the first months of his office (his proposed immigration ban remains suspended by the courts), you would think he was ruling from a great majority of the votes. Since he is not, we could only hope he could listen to the concerns of the people that did not vote for him.

James W. Ramsey

Sandpoint