{"id":63408,"date":"2026-04-03T14:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63408"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:37:25","slug":"its-amazing-that-anyone-actually-believes-the-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63408","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Amazing That Anyone Actually Believes The Mainstream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently living in a very strange world. An overwhelming majority of Americans want voter ID for elections, and Congress can&#8217;t seem to pass it. The Democrats are campaigning on the policy of impeaching President Trump as soon as they gain control of Congress, and many Democrats are saying that we shouldn&#8217;t even sell Israel defensive weapons. Other than anti-Israel and anti-Trump, what are their policies? Meanwhile, the press keeps telling us that President Trump&#8217;s popularity has sunk to a new low. So what is the truth?<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2026\/04\/incredible-nonshrinking-poll-numbers.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line Blog<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Every day I see a headline like these: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5811709-trump-approval-rating-iran-war-economy\/\">from<\/a> <em>The Hill<\/em> newspaper this morning,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Trump approval rating hits new low as Iran war squeezes economy.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cNew low.\u201d <em>The Hill<\/em> headline from yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5810850-trump-approval-hits-new-low\/\">read<\/a>,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cRecord low.\u201d The Tuesday headline in <em>The Hill<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5808710-nate-silver-donald-trump-polling-disapproval\/\">reads<\/a>,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Nate Silver on recent polling: Trump has \u2018profound problems\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5807907-trump-approval-rating-umass-amherst-poll\/\">Monday,<\/a> <em>The Hill<\/em> told us,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Donald Trump approval rating dipped to a new low.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cNew low.\u201d Every day a new poll. Every day a new low, or a record low. Based on this trend, I would expect to find Trump\u2019s approval rating to be hovering between negative 300 percent and negative 400 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>So I looked at today\u2019s Rasmussen Reports, daily approval <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration_second_term\/prez_track_apr02\">poll<\/a>: 46-52. Not great, a little underwater, but a record low? A new low?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In Rasmussen, Trump has stayed in a fairly narrow approval range of 44 to 48 percent since the beginning of the first government shutdown last October.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Other services, like Morning Consult, have Trump numbers steady or the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> actually <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">improving<\/span> during March.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But you are supposed to take the daily drumbeat as proof that no one approves of Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why does anyone believe these people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently living in a very strange world. An overwhelming majority of Americans want voter ID for elections, and Congress can&#8217;t seem to pass it. The Democrats are campaigning on the policy of impeaching President Trump as soon as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8203,19312,444,13370,8533,1337],"class_list":["post-63408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-power-line-blog","tag-president-trumps-approval-ratings","tag-rasmussen-reports","tag-the-daily-mail","tag-the-hill-newspaper","tag-voter-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63409,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408\/revisions\/63409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}