Trump just announced 10% additional tariffs on Canada for not pulling Ontario ad that uses this address earlier!
too low, how shameful to do just 10%, a real President would do 750% minimum… bad times to be an American :)
President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
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Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#12Trump just announced 10% additional tariffs on Canada for not pulling Ontario ad that uses this address earlier!
Some of my relatives and friends had reservations about women being too emotional to be put in the highest office of the country (or defacto leader of the west world). Trump proves that men in power are as emotional as women if not more.
I think this has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with mental health.
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not anymore! Ask farmers and ranchers: how they feel about their vote now :-)
Do you have a reference for this? https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... shows me that, while a lot of people strongly disapprove of Trump, he retains a very strong base of over 40% of likely voters. And his overall approval rating is pretty typical for a US President at this point in their term.
After wiping out soybean market, now he’s after beef! Asking farmers to reduce prices. Shows again, how clueless he’s about everything!
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/economy/trump-argentina-beef-...
He won last election on a fragile coalition which doesn’t exist anymore today. So, if elections are held today, he’d not only lose but will also get buried deep down.
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of my relatives and friends had reservations about women being too emotional to be put in the highest office of the country (or defacto leader of the west world). Trump proves that men in power are as emotional as women if not more.
I think this has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with mental health.
That's exactly the point
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#15I don't really have words for Trump hearing the unedited, verbatim words of Reagan denouncing tariffs and then saying, "WRONG, REAGAN LOVED TARIFFS"
sure is great living in interesting times, eh?
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#16Our Fake History did a segment on a William McKinley recently and concluded with the bombshell that, despite being a "Tariff man", by the start of his second term did a full 180 on the idea. The whole series is worth a listen
https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-ten/episode-232-...
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#17Trump just announced 10% additional tariffs on Canada for not pulling Ontario ad that uses this address earlier!
I have to wonder why some enterprising Democrat doesn't run an ad with this clip, with language talking about how thin-skinned Trump is, and how the Republican party has lost its core principles. What can Trump do? Get mad? That will drive the politician who does this to prominence! Surely someone wants to get their name out on the national stage? And while it costs money to start, I'm sure that lots will want to don…
> how thin-skinned Trump is, and how the Republican party has lost its core principles.
People who are still Trump supporters now cannot be convinced by logic.
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a reference for this? https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... shows me that, while a lot of people strongly disapprove of Trump, he retains a very strong base of over 40% of likely voters. And his overall approval rating is pretty typical for a US President at this point in their term.
After wiping out soybean market, now he’s after beef! Asking farmers to reduce prices. Shows again, how clueless he’s about everything! https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/economy/trump-argentina-beef-... He won last election on a fragile coalition which doesn’t exist anymore today. So, if elections are held today, he’d not only lose but will also get buried deep down.
From that article, I can tell that there are farmers, and farmer groups, who are pissed off for good reason. But Trump carried rural counties by 93%. Given how well his general polls have held up, I am highly dubious that most farmers in most rural counties have turned against him.
Given the way that all media (across the spectrum) have been slipping, I will not take any story based on anecdote as indicative of anything other than the biases of the one selecting the anecdotes. Give me a poll. And the polling shows that his base is strong.
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to wonder why some enterprising Democrat doesn't run an ad with this clip, with language talking about how thin-skinned Trump is, and how the Republican party has lost its core principles. What can Trump do? Get mad? That will drive the politician who does this to prominence! Surely someone wants to get their name out on the national stage? And while it costs money to start, I'm sure that lots will want to don…
> how thin-skinned Trump is, and how the Republican party has lost its core principles. People who are still Trump supporters now cannot be convinced by logic.
The point is not to convince Trump supporters.
It is to make independents start to question, and create support nationwide among Democrats who like to see Trump squawk. Thereby propelling the politician behind these ads to more prominence in the Democratic party.
Re: President Reagan's Radio Address to the Nation on Tarrifs, 1987
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not anymore! Ask farmers and ranchers: how they feel about their vote now :-)
Do you have a reference for this? https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... shows me that, while a lot of people strongly disapprove of Trump, he retains a very strong base of over 40% of likely voters. And his overall approval rating is pretty typical for a US President at this point in their term.
He has the lowest first 100 days polls amongst presidents, beaten only by himself on his first term. On his current & second term, he is losing on what should should be strong issues historically for the gop such as the economy and immigration. His core base is indeed difficult to move but independents are not.
* https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential... * https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approva...
Now that was 100 days, but we are 278 days into his second term now. The polls went down further and polls on issues he should have addressed are not going up.
For a better view of what's normal and compared with presidency of the past:
* https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job...
The first 6 months are usually a honey moon period. The full effect of Trump's policies are still to be felt, and with the current political / economic / legal / etc.. context, the approval ratings won't go up.
But indeed, his core is difficult to move. My opinion on what follows, but I think they attached too much of their identity to the guy and their coping mechanism will be studied for decades to come in political, psychology and history classes.