VOL. I · NO. 8566FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026
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Trump’s America keeps getting worse

Filed 1w ago · Via chicago.suntimes.com · The Buffoon Desk
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Dissappointment
Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

Quinnipiac polling puts President Trump's approval rating at 32%, lower than Jimmy Carter's 34% at the end of his term — the same Carter presidency Trump has repeatedly invoked as shorthand for failure.

The piece ties the number to a list of concurrent problems: a measles outbreak large enough to threaten the country's elimination status, eleven active foodborne illness outbreaks following cuts to inspection and surveillance agencies, and munitions stockpiles reportedly depleted by up to 80% in some categories after strikes on Iran.

It also cites reports of sailors jumping overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln amid poor shipboard conditions, alongside separate findings that just 19% of respondents felt better off than a year earlier, down from 28% in January.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK
When your presidency's approval rating loses to the guy you use as a punchline for weakness, the joke has found its way home. Reflecting pools and gold statues make for nice photo ops, but they don't un-clog a toilet on a Navy ship or un-outbreak a measles outbreak. Carter, wherever he is, is owed an apology or at least a rematch.
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