Trump's Numbers Are Up. Maybe He Should Travel More!!

THE PRESIDENT ABROAD: Trump's Approval Rating Pops To 48 Percent. Here Are 3 Reasons Why.

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BY:

 BEN SHAPIRO

MAY 24, 2017

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On Wednesday, Rasmussen Reports released its daily presidential tracking 

poll, putting Trump at a 48 percent approval rating. That’s a four-point jump in 

two days from Rasmussen, and a five point increase from his recent low of 43 

percent on May 16. Now, it’s worth noting that other polls are far less favorable

to Trump – two contemporaneous polls, The Economist and Gallup, have him 

at 40 percent and 38 percent respectively.

But if the Trump bump is real, it makes some sense. That’s for three reasons.

1. Trump Isn’t Tweeting. Because Trump is overseas and busily traveling the

 globe, he’s not up at all hours watching MSNBC and CNN and tweeting nasty

 notes to the hosts, or retweeting botched summaries of

 Fox & Friends chyrons. He’s also not pouring more gasoline on the Trump-

Russia kindling the media have set – he hasn’t tweeted about FBI director 

James Comey or reports that he told intelligence officials he’d appreciate it 

if they’d exonerate him or any of the other anonymous material coming out 

daily from the media. That means that these stories tend to die quickly, since

 anonymous stories aren’t being confirmed by Trump’s own hand – and since 

Trump isn’t insisting that his communications team rush to the nearest 

microphone to parrot his talking points. Most of the damage on the Trump-

Russia score has been self-inflicted – and that’s easy to see when Trump 

stops inflicting said damage on himself.

2. The Country Isn’t Collapsing. Trump left the country; the country is fine. 

The left promulgates a myth whereby the president must sit at the controls of

 the airliner that is the United States each and every minute lest we all go full 

Zombie Apocalypse on one another. Instead, Trump is out of the country

 partying it up with glowing orbs and swords, and the country’s getting along 

just fine. Nobody’s dying. Nobody’s panicking. In other words, a predictable 

government is the best available option, and Trump gallivanting around 

reminds us all that he’s not capable of screwing this up.

3. Terrorism Is A Winning Issue For Trump. The terror attack on Monday

 obviously helps Trump politically because the left is so damned irresponsible

 about it. Trump’s perspective – fewer unvetted Muslims in the West means

fewer unvetted Muslims killing other people in the West – is eminently correct. 

His skepticism of radical Islam resonates far better than the left’s asinine John 

Lennon Imagine-esque pseudo-philosophy. Trump was elected to “bomb the

 s***” out of ISIS. Seeing the slaughter of eight-year-old girls at a pop concert

 reminds people that’s a task worth pursuing.

President Trump should be making notes. When he comes back to the United

 States, he should be the same President Trump we’re seeing abroad: muted

 but strong, a bombastic showman when the time is right.