President Donald Trump has developed a horrifying “little tic” as his poll numbers continue to sink, according to two analysts.
Trump, whose mental health seems to be deteriorating, has increasingly relied on what the president refers to as his “real poll numbers” to convince himself that the American people are still with him, analysts Sean Wilentz and Sidney Blumenthal noted on their podcast “The Court of History.” Trump’s “real poll numbers” suggest he has a greater-than-60% approval rating, even though polls from Quinnipiac and the University of Chicago measured his support at closer to 30%, the analysts noted.
“Oh my god,” Wilentz said when Blumenthal shared Trump’s supposed “real poll numbers.”
What makes the situation even more horrifying is that the president seems preoccupied with comparing himself to his predecessors, another sign that he is not living in the present, Blumenthal noted.
Two of the presidents that Trump has associated himself with, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, are particularly revealing, Wilentz argued.
Hoover once ordered the military to remove an encampment of military veterans that had formed in Washington, D.C., to demand that the government cash their service-bonus certificates that Congress awarded them after World War I. Nixon, on the other hand, has become known as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history because of the Watergate scandal.
Wilentz argued that Trump’s “little tic” of comparing himself to Hoover and Nixon is “very telling.”
“He’d like to construct a government that goes beyond what Richard Nixon would have wanted to do, as horrible as it was …” Wilentz said. “He wants to go beyond that. He thinks that Nixon was a wimp. He thinks that Nixon was a wuss and that’s why he fell, and that he is going to outdo him.”
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