Trump approval rating underwater in Fox News survey

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5265210-trump-approval-rating-fox-news-poll/

The poll showed Trump with an approval rating of 44 percent, down 5 points from the 49 percent he had in March. Fox noted the latest number is lower than where all of his most recent predecessors were at this point in their presidencies.

Former President George W. Bush had the highest rating among 21st-century presidents with 63 percent approval, followed by former President Obama with 62 percent and former President Biden with 54 percent. Trump also had a rating 1 point higher at this point in his first term than his current one.

CNN Data Guru Touts Historic Poll Showing Trump Most Unpopular Prez Since 1953

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-harry-enten-flumps-donald-trump-as-worst-new-president-since-us-records-began/

An overwhelming majority of Americans say the president is botching the job just months into his second term.

“These numbers are just horrible—there’s no way to sugarcoat it,” CNN data guru Harry Enten said while diving into the results of a new survey the network released on Saturday

Musk demoted again! Elon retreats as he loses $1 billion PER DAY under Trump

Trump Tore Up Obama’s Iran Deal. Is He Now Negotiating Something Worse?

 https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-obama-iran-deal

“The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” President Donald Trump declared in 2018 as he withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. He has always claimed that President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement was terrible. And he has always been right.

But if Trump lets Steve Witkoff, his special envoy, continue to negotiate with Iran along the current lines, he will end up with an agreement even weaker than the JCPOA. Witkoff is driving Trump on the road to Obamaland.

A stunning reversal of fortunes in Canada's historic election- Trump saves the Liberals

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jv246n91o

Last year, the Conservatives held a 20-point lead in national polls over the governing Liberals for months. Poilievre's future as the country's next prime minister seemed baked in.

Then a series of shockwaves came in quick succession at the start of 2025, upending the political landscape: Justin Trudeau's resignation, Carney's subsequent rise to Liberal leader and prime minister; and the return of Trump to the White House with the threats and tariffs that followed.

By the time the election was called in mid-March, Carney's Liberals were polling neck-and-neck with the Conservatives, and by early April they had pulled slightly ahead, national surveys suggest.

Trump's late-March announcement of global levies on foreign automobile imports allowed Carney to step away from the trail and take on the prime minister's mantle, setting up a call with the president and meeting US Cabinet ministers.

Poilievre, in contrast, is a veteran politician and polished performer. But on the shifting political ground, Conservatives appeared to struggle to find their footing, pivoting their message from Canada being broken to "Canada First".

Poilievre had to fend off criticism from political rivals that he is "Trump lite", with his combative style, his vows to end "woke ideology", and willingness to take on the "global elite".

American Battleground: Trump dreams of empire while struggling to keep some promises

 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/26/politics/donald-trump-immigration-foreign-policy/index.html

For months, the Danes have effectively said the only threat is from the United States. They’ve pointed out that Greenland, an autonomous land under the Danish umbrella, has happily hosted American military forces for decades. They note that Vance’s stop is at a US base established in 1943 and still operating. They argue the White House can easily keep an eye on Chinese and Russian movements in northern waters from the island and can even expand America’s military footprint there without owning the earth beneath it. Anyway, Denmark says, Greenland is not for sale. Locals give an icier answer to Trump, Vance and their representatives: “We don’t want you here.”

Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631

A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child — identified in court papers by the initials “V.M.L.” — appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday, along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who had been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week.

George Santos, who conned his way to Congress before getting booted, sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/george-santos-prison-sentence-00309522

The disgraced former New York lawmaker pleaded guilty to felony charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

A federal judge on Friday sentenced disgraced former Rep. George Santos to more than seven years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a case that resulted in his expulsion from Congress and capped a colorful flameout for the first-term Republican.

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/26/us-citizen-children-deported-ice/

The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

 Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.

Constantly in Motion, Trump’s Cabinet Portrays a White House That’s Always Winning

 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-cabinet-social-media-6f58091f?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos2

On social media, top officials stream an intimate window into their work that runs counter to the obstacles facing the White House agenda

On any given day, Americans on social media can hope to glimpse Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pounding push-ups with the troops. They might catch FBI Director Kash Patel alongside agents as they cinematically rappel from helicopters and blast their way into a building. Or they’ll find Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, dairy cows pacing behind her, pledging to rescind a government ban on whole milk in schools.

President Trump faces growing obstacles to his agenda from the courts, investors and world leaders. But on social media, his top officials are using their influence to tell Americans a different story, one in which Trump is securing victory after victory on his main goals. The strategy gives his cabinet the most robust public presence of any in recent memory.

Majority of Voters Find Trump’s Second Term ‘Chaotic’ and ‘Scary’

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/majority-of-voters-find-trumps-second-term-chaotic-and-scary/

According to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Friday, 66 percent described Trump’s second term as “chaotic,” while 59 percent opted for “scary.” Many of those same voters, the Times notes, nevertheless approved of Trump’s job performance.

On that point, the president’s approval rating sits at 42 percent, and he’s also underwater on a host of issues: immigration, managing the federal government, the economy, international trade, foreign conflicts, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Friday’s poll—conducted of 913 voters nationally from April 21 to 24—echoes a Fox News poll from earlier this week. It, too, showed Trump underperforming in many areas. Only 33 percent supported the president’s tariffs, for instance, while 51 percent predicted his policies will hurt the country in the long run.

Trump responded by lashing out at owner Rupert Murdoch and the network’s “Trump Hating, Fake Pollster.”

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admits-putin-may-have-been-playing-him-this-whole-time-tapping-me-along/

President Donald Trump admitted Saturday that he may have been wrong to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants peace in the war against Ukraine and threatened further sanctions.

“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!” the president wrote.

Oops!: Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw-ups and frantic walk backs

Why Does the Chazzan Repeat the Amidah?

 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3319017/jewish/Why-Does-the-Chazzan-Repeat-the-Amidah.htm

Why is the repetition said even when there may not be such people present?

The sages instituted that it be said after every Amidah,5 since otherwise we’d need to interrogate each individual in attendance to ascertain whether there is a congregant who fits the criteria for the repetition.6

Nowadays, virtually no one fits the criteria. But there is another reason for the repetition—we recite the Kedushah and Modim prayers during this time.7