It does explain the strange “equal time” tweets this morning… this drain circling is going to take some time… golfing three weekends in a row… (Secret Service has now paid Trump $137,000 for golf cart rentals)
24 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 24 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction after a tumultuous stretch for President Donald Trump that included the threat of war with North Korea, stormy complaints about hurricane relief and Trump’s equivocating about white supremacists. That’s a 10-point drop since June, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The decline in optimism about the nation’s trajectory is particularly pronounced among Republicans. In June, 60 percent of Republicans said the country was headed in the right direction; now it’s just 44 percent.
The broader picture for the president is grim, too. Nearly 70 percent of Americans say Trump isn’t level-headed, and majorities say he’s not honest or a strong leader. More than 60 percent disapprove of how he is handling race relations, foreign policy and immigration, among other issues.
Overall, 67 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing in office, including about one-third of Republicans.
(1981) The inauguration hasn't stopped it— the Reagan for Shah Committee is still goose-stepping to the beat of an Army drummer...
Tillerson wondered aloud whether the entire effort to improve relations with Iran wasn’t doomed by history. “We have more pounds, and our hair is gray,” he said. “Maybe we don’t have it in our capacity to change the nature of this relationship, because we are bound by it—maybe we leave it to the next generation to try.” He thought for a moment. “I don’t know. I’m not a diplomat.”
There are four key components that generally lead to the development of Stockholm syndrome:
- A hostage's development of positive feelings towards their captor
- No previous hostage-captor relationship
- A refusal by hostages to cooperate with police forces and other government authorities
- A hostage's belief in the humanity of their captor, for the reason that when a victim holds the same values as the aggressor, they cease to be perceived as a threat.[4][5]