How would you rate Michelle Obama?

And the relevance of that question is...? What about Mary Todd Lincoln? Mamie Eisenhower? Abigail Adams?

We're talking about Trump here.

No, you're talking about his wife - rating her appearance, as it were.

If you don't want to or cannot do the same for Michelle Obama though it's fine.

Well, you know these Trumposexuals, when there's nothing good to say about the man himself, they always fall back on the "whataboutobama" gambit. Bless their cotton socks, they can't help it.

ftfy

"The poll of 1,014 adults had a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points." Oops, missed blueangel already made the same point.

As usual, for a less overexcited point of view see Nate Silver's poll of polls:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...roval-ratings/

The situation is stable. For now :-).

I'll keep saying this til my dying day...

The secrecy of the ballot box means that we only have assumptions who voted for who by age or gender. If an electoral area knows that of the people who voted, 50% were women and 50% were men, and the winning candidate had 48% of the vote, it is a possibility (no matter how remote) that their votes came entirely from either gender.

I don't care that Trump had sex with a porn star. Watching her interview, I was struck by how entirely plausible she was, and by how she admitted she got herself into the situation and said it was consentual. Credit to her for that.

As a woman, he's been unfaithful. Quelle surprise!
He's been unfaithful in the days immediately following the birth of his son. That's such a disgusting betrayal. Lower than a snake's belly.

This 'affair' didn't happen whilst he was in office, so it's irrelevant. He hasn't laid himself open to blackmail whilst in a position where it could compromise security, which was the whole premise of the Profumo Affair.

That must be it.

It couldn't possibly be that leftists don't see any problems with judging the appearance of Trump's wife (where my feminists at? ) yet for some reason can't do the same for Obama's wife. Funny that.

However, he has denied the affair ever took place. If she turns out to be telling the truth, he has lied whilst in office.
It also shows up the evangelical christian right for the heap of steaming hypocrites they are; they continue to support him, however much he is the absolute antithesis to their so-called "family values". Twats.

And if it didn't happen, there would never have been a need for non disclusure to be drawn up.

Leftists? You mean, leftists like Tom (st2lemans)? Leftists like me?

Life must be so simple in your monochromatic, dichotomous world.

So one EF poster is representative of all you stereotype as leftist.

So much for your intellectual honesty. It's one of the reasons you can't be taken seriously even when you try to give it your best. Or perhaps, especially when you do.

US Treasury coffers are looking empty.

The United States plans to try to sell about $294 billion of debt this week, according to the US Treasury Department. That's the highest for a week since the record set during the 2008 financial crisis.

One major cause is the drop in revenues due to the tax cuts.

Some media are speculating that the largest buyer of US Bonds, China, might sit out this one as warning to Trump.

I doubt this will happen but it would be interesting to see

The United States ran a $215 billion deficit in February, the biggest in six years. The annual budget deficit could exceed $1 trillion as soon as next year, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Meanwhile; The special counsel investigation revealed Tuesday night that prosecutors say they have connected former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates to a person with ties to a Russian intelligence service while Gates worked on the campaign.

The coming sentencing of a Dutch attorney, Alex van der Zwaan, revealed he recorded a phone call with Gates and the unnamed Eastern European associate.

Source

Probably not a big deal as der Zwaan has not been named as a cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation unlike Gates himself.

Oh, are you a centrist like me?

It just seems like double standards when you're willing to rate Trump's wife (and apparently all of his ex-wives, who have absolutely nothing to do with his presidency) but you won't do the same for Michelle Obama.

Tom

Would that be the non-disclosure he claims never to have signed?
Edit: or for his lawyer to have paid the 130k from "his own pocket".

Huh?

I think most people feel sorry for Melania. Whatever her privileges, allowance or whatever perks she has, the humiliation must be awful for her. I'm guessing there is a reasonable amount of truth in the rumours (signed NDAs don't really point to innocence, rather damage limitation) and she knows it.

She knew what kind of guy she was marrying from the moment she arrived in the mail.