(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hundreds of protesters gather at the Capitol for a rally against the Trump administration in Salt Lake City on Saturday, April 5, 2025.
By Raymond A. Hult | The Public Forum
A recent CNN poll for Trump’s first 100 days in office determined a favorability rate of 41%. The lowest since Dwight Eisenhower in 1953, but still a sizable proportion.
Puzzling is how many of those polled continue to favor Trump. Do they support dismantling one critical government agency after another upon which the lower and middle class urgently depend on for assistance. According to CNN, 121,000 federal workers have been fired or targeted for layoff in Trump’s first three months in office. Included are highly trained scientists and experts in a host of fields such as public health, foreign aid/diplomacy and disaster management.
Really? Supporting a president distancing himself from NATO while siding with Putin in his war against Ukraine? Hammering the stock market with an irresponsible tariff agenda, and thus instituting a pointless threat of higher inflation, empty retail shelves and a potential recession? Ignoring the need for arrest/search warrants including the right to due process by those taken into custody based on questionable probable cause?
Why would 41 of every 100 people polled persist in backing a president determined to be a dictator while ignoring the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.
Makes no sense!
Raymond A. Hult, Bountiful
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