Show Trump bad news like this and he'll lose his mind
Donald Trump returns to the White House after his trip to Davos. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
January 23, 2026
Donald Trump returns to the White House after his trip to Davos. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
As Donald Trump’s dementia worsens, several axioms are useful for interpreting his increasingly incoherent bloviation.
(If you’ve got any other axioms, please share them with us.)
Apropos of the fourth axiom comes a new New York Times/Siena University poll, which prompted a bilious message from Trump, saying he’s adding it to his lawsuit against theTimes.
Hence, the poll is worth your looking at and sharing.
What does it show? That all the hand-wringing over Trump’s so-called “realignment” in the 2024 election was rubbish. There was no realignment.
It’s true that when Trump took office a year ago, his approval rating was above 50 percent and he had made significant breakthroughs among traditionally Democratic groups of voters — especially young, nonwhite, and low-turnouts.
But now that’s all gone. Only 40 percent of registered voters now approve of his performance. The supposed “demographic shifts” of the last election have completely vanished. Young and nonwhite voters disapprove of him even more than they did then, although he has kept most of his support among older and white voters.
Overall, among registered voters nationwide, Democrats lead by five percentage points. It’s the largest lead for the Democrats in a Times/Siena national poll since 2020. It would be enough for them to take back the House of Representatives.
The poll was done between Jan. 12 and 17, before Trump threatened Greenland and after an ICE agent killed Renee Good but before many of the other atrocities committed by ICE in Minnesota fully came to light.
But the biggest problem for Trump appears to be the economy. He was elected for two reasons: He said he’d get prices down and avoid foreign entanglements. He’s reneged “bigly” on both promises.