Trump's honesty and 'mental sharpness' questioned in latest polling
Source: NJ.com
President Donald Trump is scoring low on two key personal attributes, according to a new poll.
The latest Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that a majority of Americans, 62%, say Trump is not honest and trustworthy. This includes 95% of Democrats, 70% of independents and 23% of Republicans, according to the results.
The poll also questioned respondents on whether Trump has the mental sharpness it takes to effectively serve as president. The results found that 47% of Americans said he does while 50% said he does not.
This includes 56% of independents who do not think Trump has the mental sharpness to serve as president. Twelve percent of Republicans also said he didnt have the mental sharpness.
Read more: https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/02/trumps-honesty-and-mental-sharpness-questioned-in-latest-polling.html
OLDMDDEM
(3,040 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,460 posts)Typical repuke projection maneuver.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,940 posts)that above abortion and illegal immigration. HOWEVER - no polls have "sticking it to libs" as an option so it doesnt show up in any statistics. Yeah there are the true believers, but a lot of these voters know that a lot of it is BS but love it because it fulfills their desire to stick it to libs.
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,369 posts)I'm unclear why their desire is to stick it to us.
Gary 50
(478 posts)that compassion is evil. Also, once one has bought into the evil is good and good is evil it's nearly impossible to admit that you've been fooled. Who wants to confess that they have been a useful idiot for ten or twenty years?
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,369 posts)They need to learn to own AI.
patphil
(8,733 posts)Gum Logger
(327 posts)Ocelot II
(129,107 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,940 posts)62% of respondents believe T "IS NOT honest and trustworthy." It doesnt state that respondents QUESTIONED honesty and trustworthiness.
If you add in the "QUESTIONERS" and lets add in too the Magas who KNOW T is lying but approve of it for political or entertainment reasons.... I would bet the no. would be much higher than 62%
This is a time when we need to be accurate,
patphil
(8,733 posts)sop
(17,442 posts)Surely there must be some other personal trait that motivated millions of Republicans to support Trump. What could it be?
Marcuse
(8,802 posts)MLWR
(778 posts)He won a plurality. He did not get more than 50% of the vote.
Marcuse
(8,802 posts)
surfered
(11,555 posts)because they still thought the hull was stronger than an iceberg.
twodogsbarking
(17,582 posts)You are dumber than the big pieces in the cat litter box.
C_U_L8R
(48,885 posts)I call it "Dementia"
ShazzieB
(22,220 posts)...only 23% of Republicans in this poll said he is not honest and trustworthy. Are they really that stupid, that deep in denial, or both? Either way, they're pathetic.
Wicked Blue
(8,460 posts)patphil
(8,733 posts)That number is only going to go up, as the Musk/Trump wrecking ball smashes more and more critical parts of government programs that serve the nation and it's people.
Trust_Reality
(2,272 posts)OMGWTF
(5,014 posts)Like usual, the math ain't mathin' with these Rethuglicans.
Wicked Blue
(8,460 posts)because they're no-accounts
republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)your stroking me for a belly laugh. He doesn't have a concept of what the word honesty means.
Trust_Reality
(2,272 posts)Dock_Yard
(246 posts)There's no other possible way for his lies and cruelty to be stopped.
Trust_Reality
(2,272 posts)I'm saying, find a way.
Necessity is the mother of invention is another saying.
BobTheSubgenius
(12,170 posts)Since when has this been a question?
Xipe Totec
(44,474 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,460 posts)mwmisses4289
(3,242 posts)1. No shit, Sherlock
2. Duh, what took you so long?
Or
3. A little late to the party, aren't you?
Nasruddin
(1,178 posts)Co-president Musk is on the job!
Until he gets distracted by something else, like an insulting post on twitter.
kerouac2
(1,427 posts)Day late and a dollar short
They have Vance in the wings anyway
This mess has been bought and there are no returns.
Bev54
(13,203 posts)These dumb fuckers have no idea that the rest of the world no longer has any trust in the US and along with Canada we are all looking at new trading partners and agreements, with those who will actually honour the agreements they make. Canada has been selling their oil from Alberta to the US at a discount for many many years, because we did not have suitable pipeline access to our western or eastern ports. Trudeau tried to get the east/west pipeline done but ran into a roadblock with our errant province of Quebec, who flatly refused to allow a pipeline through the province. Trump has changed that attitude and I have no doubt we will see the construction of the new pipeline. Trudeau did manage to get the pipeline completed to the west coast (started during first Trump term) and was completed in 2024 which now allows us to ship our oil to new trading partners and maybe even to China. We also opened a new LNG plant on our west coast for shipping.
There is a very large movement in Canada now to boycott US products and buy Canadian or any other country other than the US. As well Canadians are refusing to travel to the US for vacations. This is not just Canada but several other countries are supporting us by buying Canadian products and anything other than US.
So now and in years to come we will be trading with other countries much more than we did before and we will likely sell the US less oil and not at a discount anymore. This is not just a temporary protest, Trump has created a whole new level of "wokeness" and patriotism in our country and others that we now read every label and have new apps to tell us where a product is from. Our stores are now labelling Canadian products so they are easily recognised and our produce from which country they are from. People are passing by the US products.
It should never have come to this but it will take a very long time for people to forget, because the one thing we have learned, is the the voters in the US are idiots to have voted for him once, but twice, that is not a mistake that is revealing.
We may return to our travel in the US and even not asking where everything we buy is from, but by then we may already be in trade agreements with other countries that provide us with the goods we require and we will honour our commitments to them. It may hurt us now (and it will) but it will be the US citizens that may well lose for the long term. We consider ourselves at war, right now just tariff and economically (for now anyway) but it is a war just the same and in war you have to make sacrifices and we will do that by not buying US products. Find someone else who will provide it or decide if we really need that or can we do without it.
I actually am in the process of getting a hydroponic garden started and will raise many vegetables, for my use, even in winter.
If some of our states decide to secede, can we PLEASE join Canada?
Bev54
(13,203 posts)We too would love the east and west coast states join us. Our values align.
Dock_Yard
(246 posts)And perhaps include NY and NJ as well, but definitely NOT Pennsylvania. Politically, PA is the smelly fart in the Northeast.
Not that that would ever happen. Just a pleasant thought.
Wicked Blue
(8,460 posts)We have a tough race for governor this year and it is desperately important that we elect a Democrat. I don't want a rethug governor capable of calling out the National Guard or make secession impossible.
Marcuse
(8,802 posts)Bev54
(13,203 posts)are friends and teammates, but understanding it, yes. I suspect the ones that got upset are possibly MAGA supporters? Just a guess.
Dock_Yard
(246 posts)I don't think either Tkachuk scrap (Fight 1 and Fight 2) was related to the anthem booing. These 2 often exhibit unhinge-ment in their desire to "win" at hockey. Fortunately or unfortunately, a lot of their schtick produces "winning" results for their respective teams. Putting them together on 1 team and starting the game with both on the same line, hockey fans know they were bursting with adrenaline... again towards a "game win" not to take out revenge over fans booing. I'm not here to defend their pugnacious style of play, though.
Are they MAGA? I do not know, but oddly they each are quite well-spoken in off-ice interviews, surprisingly.
Fight 3 with JT Miller (US) taking a minor bump in front of the offensive crease and then picking a losing battle with Parayko (CA), was just silly "me too" and not too smart. Again, I don't see any tie-in to the anthem reaction from the crowd.
Marcuse
(8,802 posts)Its their denial/downplay that the boos are linked to Trumps imperialism.
Quanto Magnus
(1,300 posts)will morph this into some 'resounding' endorsement of Trump's policies.....