Guest Post by Piers Morgan
The stats don’t lie.
Within minutes of President Donald Trump‘s first State of the Union speech, CBS News revealed their YouGov poll approval ratings on it.
Unsurprisingly, 97% of Republican speech watchers liked it.
More surprisingly, 72% of Independents liked it.
Staggeringly, 43% of Democrats liked it.
President Donald Trump is pictured delivering the State of the Union address from the House chamber of the United States Capitol Tuesday
Overall, CBS reported that 75% of Americans approved of the speech.
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For such a seriously divisive and polarising President, who is currently languishing with just 39% personal approval ratings, these were sensationally good results.
Interestingly, 8/10 Americans in the poll felt the President was trying to unite the country with his speech and two thirds of Americans said it made them feel proud.
Less than a quarter that watched said it made them feel scared or angry.
Contrast this reaction with the instant and so tediously predictable blind rage spewed by the world’s liberal celebrities on social media before, during and after the address.
From my own unofficial poll – i.e. my own eyes on Twitter – I’d say 99% of them were so furious at the speech they could barely think straight.
‘I was told darkness could not exist in the light,’ tweeted Sarah Silverman. ‘But here it is, for everyone to not see.’
Jim Carrey tweeted an illustration of sharks across a map of America, then another of a weeping Abraham Lincoln and the caption: ‘It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.’
Trump holds up his speech as US Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Speaker of the House US Rep Paul Ryan look on during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives
Andy Lassner, producer of the insufferably smug The Ellen Show sneered: ‘Good luck ‘Saturday Night Live’ on trying to make this any more f***ing ridiculous than it already is.’
Jeffrey Wright raged: ‘Can’t even watch this vile, deceitful fraud and his bizarre cult of self-interested sycophants.’
Patton Oswalt seethed: ‘I’m gonna fact check this speech: whatever he just said was bullsh*t.’
Jessica Chastain urged people not to watch the speech at all.
Billy Eichner fumed: ‘The President is a lying, incompetent, racist, misogynist sack of sh*t.’
And George Takei spouted: ‘I’m not watching some frothing orange gorilla read off a teleprompter.’
On and on it went, with these stars and many more assuming America agreed with them.
But it turned out the vast majority of Americans DIDN’T agree with them, which suggests they’re no longer listening to what celebrities say about politics or Donald Trump.
Jessica Chastain (left) urged people not to watch the speech. Billy Eichner (right) fumed: ‘The President is a lying, incompetent, racist, misogynist sack of sh*t’
Chastain urged people to avoid watching the President’s State of the Union address
Eicher shared this ‘fun tweet’ urging people to vote in the Midterms come November
For more evidence of this, look at Sunday night’s Grammys that turned into a marathon political rally of epically dreary proportions.
Ratings duly plunged 24% to an all-time low.
Why? Because Americans are sick and tired of entertainers preaching about politics at awards shows, particularly when they’re all preaching from the same liberal Trump-loathing handbook.
It’s hard not to agree with White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders when she said yesterday: ‘I think if Americans cared what celebrities thought then Hillary would be president but they clearly don’t.’
She added: ‘Frankly, I feel sorry for these people. They’re so focused on hating this president that they’re missing all of the great things that are happening in this country.’
George Takei (left) spouted: ‘I’m not watching some frothing orange gorilla read off a teleprompter.’ Jim Carrey (right) tweeted an illustration of sharks across a map of America
Actor Carrey also shared this picture of a weeping Abraham Lincoln and the caption: ‘It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to’
Takei tweeted: ‘I’ve got better things to do, like alphabetize my spice cabinet’
Now, she would say that wouldn’t she… and yet, she has a point.
None of these celebrity Trump-bashers ever give him credit for anything.
Yet there are things happening in and to America right now for which he absolutely deserves credit not derision.
Most notably, the US economy is full steam ahead, with consistently impressive quarterly growth, the stock market smashing weekly records, and job numbers at 17-year highs.
Yes, it’s true that this is continuing a positive economic trend from the Obama years. But it’s also true that nobody would be blaming Obama if the economy had weakened under Trump in his first year.
Most impartial observers credit the President’s war on regulation and his big tax reform plan as the major driving forces for the current economic positivity.
Andy Lassner, producer of the insufferably smug The Ellen Show sneered: ‘Good luck ‘Saturday Night Live’ on trying to make this any more f***ing ridiculous than it already is’
Patton Oswalt seethed: ‘I’m gonna fact check this speech: whatever he just said was bullsh*t’
Jeffrey Wright raged: ‘Can’t even watch this vile, deceitful fraud and his bizarre cult of self-interested sycophants’
Kesha burst into tears as she was hugged by Camila Cabello, Bebe Rexha and Cyndi Lauper following her powerful rendition of Praying on Sunday at the Grammys. Ratings for the awards plunged 24%
Certainly, it helped inspire Apple, one of America’s biggest overseas job outsourcing companies, to recently announce they’re bringing $350billion and 20,000 jobs back home to the US economy.
But have you seen a single liberal celebrity acknowledge that? No.
Trump vowed in his presidential campaign to whack ISIS hard and as he said last night, the terror group’s now been driven out of Iraq and Syria.
This is a significant achievement too but no liberal celebrity will thank him for it, so profound and deep-rooted is the antipathy towards him.
What they don’t seem to understand is that the American people are beginning to calm down about President Trump, understand him better, accept him for what he is – good and bad – and appreciate some of the good stuff he is doing.
Trump delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of the US Congress on Capitol Hill in DC
That much is crystal clear from the reaction to his SOTU speech that was long, thoughtful, and delivered with none of the frothing, hyperbolic style that we have seen from him in the past.
As I think I may have mentioned (!) I spent time with President Trump last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and I was struck by how relaxed and confident he seemed, both in my interview and in his speech to the world’s business elite the next day.
I was also struck by how much more diplomatic, conciliatory and unifying he was too – especially with his statement that yes, it’s America First but no, it’s not America Alone.
I think the reason for this simple: success.
Trump’s entire DNA is predicated on winning. Every sinew of his being for the past 50 years has pulsated with a burning, insatiable desire to win.
‘You’ve gotta win,’ Trump once told me. ‘That’s what it’s all about. You know, Muhammad Ali used to talk and talk, but he won. If you talk and talk but you lose, the act doesn’t play.’
And now, after months of under-achievement, he’s beginning to win.
Meanwhile, his opponents don’t seem to have a clue either how to stop him, or who in their ranks can beat him in 2020.
Happy Hil: In the segment at the Grammys (above), Clinton had a giant grin as she read a passage about President Trump’s ‘longtime fear of being poisoned’
One thing’s for sure: it won’t be Hillary Clinton, who apparently still hasn’t got the message either that she lost or that hanging out with liberal celebrities is a vote-crusher to middle America.
I don’t know what possessed her to pop up in the middle of the Grammys to read out Trump-mocking lines from Michael Wolff’s book, but all it did was remind everyone yet again that she’s a sore loser, and that the Democrats haven’t found anyone else to replace her yet.
Until they do, Trump will continue to surge in confidence and if the economy does the same then I predict he will be re-elected at the next election by a bigger majority.
Don’t believe me? Take a long, careful look at that CBS poll after last night’s SOTU speech.
Like I said, the stats don’t lie.
‘This is our new American moment,’ Trump said last night. ‘There has never been a better time to start living the American dream.’
This message, one of his 115 applause lines, was approved by 75% of the country that watched it.
Trump’s American Dream is very rapidly becoming the Democrat Nightmare.
Trump’s American Dream is very rapidly becoming the Democrat Nightmare.
YES, YES, YES!
And a Joosish one!
Except that all of the Hollywood jews, the MSM jews ( the jewyork times in particular) and their ilk all hate him…..strange
Piers Morgan being reasonable.
What year is this??
Piers Morgan? Did that kerfuffle with Alex Jones convert him?
I am being extrajudicially murdered in a silent civil war
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Anybody wondering where my comment went here. Well I deleted it.. best to just walk away..
Andrea,
I have avoided interacting much for reasons apparent to most of us here. We all know just whom rushes in while others fear to tread lightly, big stick or not.
I have occasionally read your linked articles, giving you the benefit of the doubt as a young aspiring writer hoping to one day soon have something to say. A young woman I attended some college writing classes with was anal retentive as far as style and form went, including being anal retentive about verb tense and grammatical structure. In many, many ways, she was an excellent writer and she studied the Mafioso Genre particularly, loving my greatly embellished stories of meeting my husband’s very Italian extended family shortly after we married. What prevented her from greatness, while others in our peer group went on to become published novelists, some the “other” wizard named Harry’s creator(s), was that she had led a charmed life as the smart kid of a well-to-do couple who allowed her to consume all sorts of garbage masquerading as entertainment. She didn’t understand what makes people want to be better people. She didn’t understand what it was she wanted to say.
Andrea, if you really want to participate here, you should learn to act like the normal regular reader/commenter here at TBP acts. Make your observation, relate it to one of your own ideas and related opinions and suggest they visit your site/blog/page/whatever if they would like to discuss your ideas further.
Now, I’m not gonna be your new best friend or anything. I got enough problems with the coyote critter and all his alter egos. But, if all you are here to do is to interject a string of annoying comments into a popular comment thread in order to misdirect the discussion TOWARD you instead of absorbing you, then you are disrupting the intellectual discussion some of us attempt by reading regularly at this blog.
You obviously haven’t bothered to understand the natural pecking order that has evolved at this place. That suggests to me you do not care to understand it, simply wanting to disrupt it. That would make you a troll, Andrea. That would make your career as a propaganda combatant really a career as a disrupter of civil discourse and intelligent debate. That would mean you are a fraud and need to go quietly into that good night.
So, I’m checking in during my outdoor chores. Did she go quietly or is she untrainable?
untrainable..
She is a seven year old child that still shits in her pants…
I had a friend call and tell me that Rush Limbaugh just called Joe Kennedy’s drooling response… get this ….:
“Chapstickaquiddick”!
LOL
There’s no way that’s not going viral
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/01/31/joe-kennedy-drool-chapstick-lip-gloss/
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What in the fuck were his handlers thinking when they did his makeup.
The future leader of the Democrats looks like he just sucked a bucket of dicks..
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Well, he just ensured the gay demographic for life……
Can’t get tired of winning. And now I read that Morgan has taken the red pill. In fairness he has been defending him in back handed way for months. Still there should be no doubt that today all over the UK liberals are doing backflips from all the cognitive dissonance coming their way….
A great read if my opinion matters to Piers. Looks like Trump is starting to assemble his Grand Coalition for the Grand Ole Party. No wonder Dems everywhere have been reduced to hysterics and hyperbole. Most of them last night looked like they were at a wake for their 96 year old Auntie that just passed. All, for some reason, still in shock from a death they should have seen from miles away…
“Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left’s denunciations of society.”
Thomas Sowell
from today’s Rasmussen–short article–
“Voters Think Trump More Likely To Achieve Speech Goals Than Most Presidents”
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2018/voters_think_trump_more_likely_to_achieve_speech_goals_than_most_presidents
Adam Schiff: FISA Memo Could Lead To Firings Of Mueller, Rosenstein
by Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/31/2018 – 15:11
Stocks are red. Trey Gowdy is abruptly retiring from Congress. Everybody is laughing at what looks like drool dribbling from the edge of Joe Kennedy’s mouth during his rebuttal to last night’s State of the Union.
And along comes Reuters, dropping a bombshell headline that, if accurate, could shift the narrative of the multiple investigations involving Russia and obstruction of justice.
Reuters quoted Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intel Committee, who believes the contents of the four-page memo about allegedly egregious FBI abuses of FISA set for public release in the next several days, could lead to the firing of Special Counsel Bob Mueller, or more likely Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.
TOP DEMOCRAT ON U.S. HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE SAYS REPUBLICAN MEMO SETS STAGE FOR POSSIBLE FIRING OF SPECIAL COUNSEL MUELLER OR MORE LIKELY DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ROSENSTEIN
U.S. HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN NUNES SAYS “NO SURPRISE” TO SEE THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ISSUE “SPURIOUS OBJECTIONS” TO REPUBLICAN MEMO -STATEMENT
Now the question of course is whether this is a statement of fact – in other words the FISA memo contains cause for termination – or a smoke screen to claim that Mueller’s firing is only made possible by the “political act” that is the imminent release of the FISA memo.
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In an amusing coincidence, Gowdy’s remarks from a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox & Friends now seem eerily prophetic…
REP. TREY GOWDY (R-SC): My Democratic colleagues didn’t want us to find this information. They did everything they could to keep us from finding this information. I think it will be embarrassing to Adam Schiff once people realize the extent to which he went to keep them from learning any of this. That would be the embarrassment…
I mean, going to court to help Fusion GPS so we can’t find out they paid for the dossier, and that they were working for the DNC. That’s a pretty big step to go to court to try to keep the American people from learning something. So, if it were up to Adam Schiff, you wouldn’t know about Hillary Clinton’s email. You wouldn’t know about the server. You wouldn’t know about the dossier. I do find it ironic that he has his own memo right now because if it were up to him, we wouldn’t know any of it.
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In response to the FBI’s “rare public statement” claiming the contents of the memo distort the truth, House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes, Schiff’s Republican counterpart and primary antagonist on the committee, has responded with his own statement dismissing the FBI’s “spurious objections.”
It is really at this moment that Trump’s MAGA movement should surge forward with something really big… a real signal that some long-term planning to reshape and restructure American Education and Technical Training has been ongoing. If we do not END the babysitting services of the National Teachers Association for 13 years + of our children’s lives paid for by a department invented by a peanut farmer from Georgia and restructure a system that educates children for a future world of opportunity, OBLITERATING the drain national education is on tax dollars and eliminating the government requirement to send our children to swim in a cesspool with unfit teachers and perverted administrators and school officials.
When Trump said “Technical Schools” to replace failed colleges, something in me sparked.
The dems did a masterful job picking the ginger Kennedy kid drooling from his downed pint of Jameson. The makeup mavens covered his zits OK but missed the cumstain. How careless. And what an orator he was. Wow. The Memo gets released soon. The hits just keep cumming.
Now wait a second – if Ensign Sulu is turning against Trump, maybe I’ll have to turn against Trump. What does Captain Kirk think?
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yo Piers, finally “get religion”? I seriously doubt it. Unless you’re a REPENTANT, calling for – beginning with – a full independent investigation of 9-11 – FUCK YOUR STINKING, DISSEMBLING ASS!
And then you have the 2 pedo baby muderer fake POS’s scum stand behind the trumpster clapping. pence, riley. Trumpster has to know this.
I really dislike both the Republican and Democrat parties, but with all the crap I see from the left, they are pushing me solidly into the Republican camp. Not that an extra Republican vote from Idaho will make a difference, but I actually might vote in the next Presidential election.
I Have A Dream that one day Americans will add Donald Trump’s image to Mt Rushmore. His Memorial in Washington DC will boldly say:”He Made America Great Again”. He’ll have the Bible in one hand captioned “In God We Trust” and the Constitution in the other “It Means Just What It Says”.