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Trump's Illusion Of Support Has Crumbled

Donald Trump's mandate is being revealed as something that never was as the illusion of support for his presidency has crumbled.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley
Feb 09, 2026
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Donald Trump’s imaginary mandate has completely evaporated. The NFL didn’t yield to his pressure to drop Bad Bunny from the Super Bowl halftime show, and the league was rewarded with record viewership for the Puerto Rican global star.

Trump’s polling numbers have collapsed on every issue. The documentary on his wife bombed.

The Republicans continue to get crushed in special elections, in red districts that Trump carried.

The signs are everywhere that the Trump presidency is a sinking ship.

As Sarah Jones said on Chew’s Views:

We’re seeing the money leaving Trump. And I think that’s unfortunately because this country runs on money more than anything else. It’s our most important value in this country is money. And the people who have it, they have abandoned Trump. They see that where the money is, where the money has left, the consumers have left.

And so that is why, he didn’t want Bad Bunny for the halftime show, but they, the NFL, which is certainly not aligned with progressive values and, they were like, no, this is what we’re doing. And we’re, and it was this show of I think he had the big sign in the back. The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

This is at a Super Bowl and I think it’s really important. I think that we are watching in real time this illusion of support or the delusion of support. It is eroding and falling apart in front of our eyes and we have to document this and we have to say, yes, this is happening. And look at Melania, and it looks like that movie was artificially inflated for the little that it got.

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There are other signs that a political earthquake is coming.

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