Discussion: AP-NORC Poll: Majority Approve Of Trump's Handling Of North Korea

I don’t get it. what did they call President Obama when he offered to meet with L’IL Kim’s father ?

Dictator coddler ? Terrorist sympathizer ? Weak ? Naive ?

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In no small part because if they get their news from AP reports they have no idea that the whole thing was a massive con.

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Yeah, but that was then, this is now.

Or, with other words, that was (Dem), this is ®…

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“Yet even people unhappy with Trump overall are willing to admire his efforts at detente with North Korea.”

False statement, no way on earth I would admire anything that despicable excuse for a human does (except maybe resign from office). North Korea was nothing more than over blown photo op in which Trump and his minions got played.

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These polls only show how poor journalist do their job, or how well propaganda networks do theirs.

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Majority of whom? Korean war vets? Resident’s of Seoul? Resident’s of Tokyo?

Or just the rural US red-meat goobers who couldn’t pick out North Korea on a map if you promised them a free MAGA hat?

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“I hate to give Donald Trump any credit, but the fact is he was able to sit down with the man and possibly get the volume of that threat turned down significantly,”

I’m sure she is sincere, but does she remember who spent the last year turning up the volume on that threat?

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also, did I miss it in the article? because it matters how the question was worded

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I was going to say the same thing. If our “press corps” explained what farce it is, maybe we’d have different polls.

He is not giving up nukes, has at least 15,000 guns pre-sighted and pointing south. The DMZ is a maze of tunnels built over the years. He likely has germ and chemical weapons, the poor man’s WMD’s.

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Is it the “little rocket man” denigration, or the “my button works” threats they approve of?

Surely couldn’t be the “deal” that’s far worse than the reviled, multinational, Iran denuclearization pact he reneged on…

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I mean, I approve of not having a nuclear winter. I’m guessing follow up questions are more revealing.

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I mean when the press goes so far out of it’s way for weeks to make it seem like Trump was “the first to have a summit with a North Korean leader in decades” like it’s a good thing and other presidents hadn’t been offered the same thing and declined because, you know, the obvious and uses phrases like “Historic Summit” or “Historic Talks” to describe the event and to constantly refer to the idiotic document that was signed as a “Deal” and also constantly give credit for “reduction in tensions” to Trump when he was the reason tensions were at a boiling point in the first place…

Yeah when you have the media doing everything it can to paint something, anything, in a positive light so they can go back to their desperate attempts to cover Trump like a ”real” President. Of course this idiotic boondoggle of a North Korea “Summit” will be seen as positive by the majority.

Next they’ll be telling us “AP-POLL: After near constant 24/7 fawning coverage of water’s wetness, Majority believes water is wet!”

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Yeah, iokiyar.

Like Donald’s feeling on this guys hair vs kid rock and nugent who he had in white house

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The survey was conducted immediately after Trump concluded a one-day
meeting with Kim, the first between a U.S. and North Korean leader in
six decades of hostility, at which they agreed North Korea would work
toward denuclearization in exchange for U.S. security guarantees.

Of course the numbers would be good immediately afterwards, before, say, anyone had a chance to look at the text of what was ostensibly agreed to.

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Some more details of the poll here.

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Every president has had some kind of policy toward NK that NK did not comply with only they didn’t meet with Kim so he could make them look like idiots. Not that Donald needed help with that. I’m guessing Kim won’t comply with this either and we’ll never hear anything else from Donald about it.

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I think the American people are saying they like that he has decided to change a really ugly status quo that has existed since the 1950s. I think the public will demand ultimate success. Personally I didn’t approve the previous policy. It was going no where.

My fear is Trump doesn’t understand the need for follow up and won’t put in the hard work needed to move on from the photo op.

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Yes Donald decided to “change the policy”…

He made it exponentially worse prior to the talks, then utterly failed to extract any concessions from North Korea in their “deal” and gave North Korea several concessions that they had been asking for, for decades, and then promptly after the talks expressed his admiration for and desire to emulate aspects of the North Korean dictator on national and international news…

Yeah he “changed an ugly status quo”… and made it worse. If the public is expecting “success” it’s only because of the rosy depictions of this failed mess by the press and they will be sorely disappointed with the outcome.

… or it’s simply a reminder to us political junkies that most people really aren’t paying much attention.

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