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Trump dismisses negative war polling
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The president said he doesn’t care about public opinion surveys as he defended the new war in the Middle East.

US President Donald Trump has dismissed polls indicating that a majority of Americans disapprove of his decision to attack Iran.

A CNN poll suggests that 60% of Americans do not support the initial US-Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday, while a Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates that only one in four Americans approves of the attack.

“I think that the polling is very good, but I don’t care about polling. I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done a long time ago,” Trump told the New York Post in an interview published on Monday.

“Look, whether polling is low or not, I think the polling is probably fine. But it’s not a question of polling. You cannot let Iran, who’s a nation that has been run by crazy people, have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said, claiming that “a real poll” would show that Americans support his actions.



The president has argued that the strikes, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, were necessary to dismantle Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. He also called on ordinary Iranians to topple their government.

Most Democrats and some Republicans have condemned the strikes as dangerous and unjustified. Top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries accused Trump of launching “another endless war in the Middle East.”

Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, said the war contradicts Trump’s “America First” campaign slogan.

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  1. At least one of those polls was on the weekend so numbers since then in favour have decreased more. This is a war that cant be won, so prepare for the Samson Option

  2. When you talk about “America first”, you need to ask, what is America? Its a capitalist Republic, so its goal is not morality or society but the pursuit of “gain”. Taking Iran’s resources meets that definition, so its hardly surprising that Trump is indifferent to the opinion of the majority of Americans. The US government doesn’t represent them, it represents money $$ and nothing else.

  3. Dunning-Kruger sociopaths with psychopathing inner tendencies always dismiss the negative criticism levied at them!
    It’s easy to do, living in a world of enriched self-delusions, whilst entertaining international war criminals wanted for war crimes, genocide and deliberate holodomor..!
    Flagrant disregard towards the welffare of ‘fellow Americans’ while the world they live in decays as their tax-payer money if given away to fucking Israel…!
    The current generation of U.S. Veterans are surprising cowardly at this juncture; maybe they can’t organise, but in 1946 they did, and the government, the banks, and public entitiesd never fucked with Veterans ever again until the FBI began spying on the anti-war group known as ‘Vietnam Veterans Against the War’
    Modern-day War Veterans who served during Gulf War One (1991) forward encountered Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and the Stasi-led DHS profiling returning Veterans as ‘POTENTIAL TERRORIST’!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1tbl0GT06I
    The coal miners were also targeted by the U.S. Government for several decades…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcEWndZlAe4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qIHN68YNXw
    The ‘Mining Communities’ also suffered oppression, but some Law Enforcement Officers protected their townsfolks from corporate gun thugs…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMCw8RAQ0Q
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGMjaw9ZvTY
    Below is an example of why living rural has it’s advantages…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z-qBxRVGhI

  4. If Trump wants to meet their objectives, the only way is via a ground operation, ie an invasion of Iran. Yet Trump won’t be honest with the public about what to expect, he just won’t rule it out. It means a further loss of trust and credibility.

    • At this stage it’s about survival of the impeachable Donald.
      Impeachable for violations of the Constitution and international law.
      Pretty much the same goes for Satanyahu.
      Thej have to have war.
      If there is war, will there be mid-term elections?

  5. Just wait 24 hours then do another poll. There’s a blood moon eclipse tonight which will change everything. No more wacky behaviour from Trump who might become sane.

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