Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "Trump meets with German Chancellor Merkel" video.
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@knightoyin6500 Merkels approval rating right now stands at about 50%, Trump currently averages a 44%. Regarding Obama, he was way more popular in the beginning of term than Trump but has fallen to the same level Trump has. Trump has been remarkebly steady at around 40-45% approval rating.
Regarding media attacks, I would recommend you take off your Fox News glasses and look at something else than "Opionion Journalists". There is a great video about the hypocrisy of Fox News when talking about the Obamas. As to media attacks on Obama, I distinctly remember Trump sitting with Fox News and claiming Obama wasn't American.
And the media reports the news. Not their fault that Trump is a moral hazard and is in violation of norms, conventions, behaviour and so scandal ridden.
Trump isn't the most powerful person in the world. Forbes will publish the next list rather soon but on the 2018 edition, Trump only managed 3rd because of several reasons.
1. He isn't governing alone in the US - he has to share power with congress and now with a party that won't let him do as he likes. His opponents such as Xi Jinping and Putin are much more free in their decision making than Donald Trump is because of no aloud opposition at home.
2. Trump has a tough standing with traditional allies like Europe. Individual nations may not be as powerful as Russia, China or the US but together, Europe is one of the worlds most prosperous regions with a whole lot of wealth and connections. His unprecedented attacks on NATO and the EU weakened support from here. The US stand alone on many subjects and must realise that they aren't omnipotent.
3. The increase in economic power of Asia and the growing military of China give Asian leaders additional international leverage, a relative loss for Donald Trump.
4. Trump himself is rather unstable. His foreign policy record is nothing to be proud of. The impovered nation of North Korea continues to resist him and the US, even when Trump gave in to Kim Jong Un's need for international recognition and met 3x over the past years. Talks have stalled and the only thing coming out of it are some nice photo ops.
By the way, Fox News heavily critisised Obama for even thinking of meeting with Kim Jong Il when he was a presidential candidate. 10 years later, Sean Hannity calls a meeting without a result a great foreign policy achievement.
At home, he failed a lot of his projects. Infrastructure not started, health care failed. The only big step he did was the Tax Reform, which blasted the deficit again to more than a trillion dollars this year. Here enters Fox News again, they so loved to cover Obama and the deficit but now a no-show.
Trump is a weak president and in 50 years the US will regret they ever elected him.
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