Do you believe these figures? It seems astounding that Donald Trump still even enjoys 39% approval. Yet he is not statisfied with that figure. "Just more fake news," would be his disclaimer.
As Americans increasingly reject his administration’s aggressive immigration policies, President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to match its lowest level ever, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll.
The survey of 1,704 U.S. adults, conducted from Feb. 9 to 12, finds that just 38% now approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president (down from 40% last month). That number had slipped to 38% in only one previous Yahoo/YouGov poll — at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2020. It has never been lower.
A growing share of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of immigration, according numerous recent polls. Basically, while voters still support the deportation of criminal sliens, they oppose wholesale deportations, especailly of US-born children.
Trump's own staff doesn't always back him up.
White House press secretary contradicts Trump and says it was president’s idea to rename Penn Station after himself
Also it was his idea to rename the Kennedy Center: the Trump-Kennedy Center, which has led to plans now for its total closure for at least 2 years. No performers have actually wanted to appear there with Trump's name on the building.
Now there is rare gun trouble for our neighbors to the north.
8 killed in Canada school shooting, including members of suspect's family: Police
A total of eight people were killed -- most of them at a school -- and more than two dozen
were wounded, after a shooter opened fire on Tuesday in a small community in British
Columbia.
The suspected shooter -- identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar -- is dead from what
is believed to be a self-inflicted injury, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The shooter, born male, more recently identified as female.
Nearly all mass shootings in the US and Canada are carried out by biological males.
According to Google, only 8% of all reported serial murders in the U.S. are committed by women.
The Guardian: Monks bring balm for America’s wounds as Washington cheers More than 100 Buddhist monks had walked 2,300 miles from Texas, braving snow and often barefoot – their arrival in the capital was greeted by thousands.
Years ago, I met the Dalai Lama, now 90 years old, back in Washington, DC. When I reached out my hand to shake his, he just bowed. I had been there to greet him on behlf of Amnesty International. He did not accompany the monks on this recent trek.
Colombian president Gusravo Petro recently came to Washington, DC.
AP, Trump hosts Colombia's Petro weeks after calling him a ‘sick man' fueling the drug trade After months of mutual insults, a highly anticipated meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, has ended cordially. Petro narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on his return to Colombia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump held a nearly two-hour meeting with his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, that both called friendly — a dramatic about-face from weeks earlier, when Trump accused Petro of pumping cocaine into the U.S. and threatened his country with military action. Afterward, Trump tried to downplay his past criticisms, saying, "He and I weren't exactly the best of friends, but I wasn't insulted because I never met him. I didn't know him at all...We had a very good meeting," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a subsequent event. "I thought he was terrific."
What’s Next for Jimmy Lai?
My friend Stephen from Nigeria once visited me for several months back in Washington, DC. A father of 4, he is shown here with his wife and several offspring at a recent family gathering. Stephen is a more observant Catholic than I am. He never missed Sunday mass, preferring to attend at the cathedral at Catholic University, rather than at our local parish church.
As many readers know, I once owned a large 3-story home in Washington, DC, built in 1895. I now live in a brand new small one-story house with my son out in the country in West Virginia. I so loved my DC house, where I had lived for more than 50 years while raising my family there. I had many visitors, including Stephen (above). But the property taxes and upkeep on my DC house were more than I could afford now in retirement, though I really hated to give up that wonderful 3-sory house with its rare pocket doors, 4 working fireplaces, and so many memories.
The lovely china dinner set below is for sale now on a local website. I used to have a similar collection, but whatever happened to it when I moved?
When I gave up my DC house, I left behind so many treasures, including my beloved Chinese rooster dishes. A single plate below is for sale now for $70. Whatever happened to my very own rooster dishes? I brought them out for special occasions, as when I invited guests for Mongolian pot, where we cooked raw morsels at the table in wire baskets. We invited guests that my (late-ex) husband wanted to reward or to impress. It was a meal they never forgot. My splendid dinners certainly helped advance my husband's career.
Here are the stages of a tasty dish prepared by a very versatile home cook, who was my neighbor back in Washington, DC
   And here's a free hand puppet available on a local website. A teen friend and I many years ago made hand puppets and put on free puppet shows for local kids. That was when I lived in Lexington, Mass.   |
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