The lowest approval rating ever!

Musings on the value of the public opinion.

Dear S,

It’s said that when God created the earth, one third of the angels disapproved and went rogue. 67% is a solid D or a failing grade in school, but in presidential polls it counts as a solid win — certainly better than President Trump right now, who ranks far lower than God did at creation, but is nearly as good in his own opinion.

The highest approval rating any president ever got was 90% for George W. Bush in 2001, but we feel this is unfair since he hadn’t done anything, was about to botch everything, and technically he cheated. He had all the heavy lifting done for him by Osama Bin Laden. To prove this, right after Dubya we rank his dad, who got 89% for kicking ass instead of getting his ass kicked. But dad raised taxes, so we fired him.

Then there’s FDR in 1945, riding high at 84% right before Harry Truman got 87% for nuking Japan — another so-so president saved by a war crime. And JFK comes in at 72 in 1961 for doing God-knows-what. Proof that in America, cuteness will get you practically anywhere. We know he certainly ranked higher with every lady except his wife.

Lyndon B Johnson comes in at 78% in 1963, mainly for wrecking every bulwark of greatness in the whole country, from immigration to welfare to whether you can fire losers. God created the Milky Way and He gets only 67%; LBJ ruined it and he got 78.

(As an honorable mention, Bill Clinton gave China “special trade relations,” taking an angry, broken, treacherous and communist nation from rock-bottom to superpower, and making sure American jobs went overseas to slave labor. And how is he rated? Very well it turns out, ending with 65% — the highest exit poll for any post-war President. Mostly because the economy “did well” while falling apart).

And what about last place? Not willing to be outdone in anything, the worst rating is also George W. Bush at 19% in 2008 — mostly because he had done things by then. What goes up must come down, they say. Second we have Harry Truman at 22% in 1952, first because of the economy, and next that we had to fight the communists he’d spent the whole last war saving. And third we have Richard Nixon at 24% in 1974 because of the Watergate Scandal — due to the fact that Americans, at the time, had no idea how bad the scandals would be by 2015. And why would we behave so badly? Mostly because we were demoralized and replaced due to policies set by Lyndon B Johnson.

So far President Trump is doing horribly in the polls — mainly for trying to undo the worst things all the presidents did before him. This means manning the border, sending back third-world illegals, bringing jobs back from China, putting an end to riots and lawlessness, ending DEI as far as possible, prosecuting welfare fraudsters, letting people speak truth on Twitter, cleaning up the FBI and the military, trying to make voting fair again, taking on Big Food and Big Pharma, and beating the shit out of Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. For attempting these things he was ranked a measly 33%, mostly because of inflation. Combined with Bush 1’s tax hikes and Clinton's boomtown, this proves that American priorities aren’t always in the right place. But they’re certainly always in the same place.

All things considered, this puts God’s rating pretty high — especially since He was getting rated by angels, whose standards are (in this writer’s opinion) a little bit rigid. He would probably have done better if He'd lowered the price of gas. But we can thank God that at least He wasn’t ranked by Americans, who would have polled Him at 85 for flooding the world, 23 for nuking Sodom and Gomorrah*, and a 55 score on Rotten Tomatoes for the four Gospels, women, and the synapses we used to rank Him.

Yours,

-J

June 1st, 2026

P.S. A glaring question might be asked here. Why is George W Bush first? And why is he joined at the top by a list of mediocrities, ne’er-do-wells, and nincompoops? Where are Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson — the ones who built this place? Where are the ones who conquered all the way to Texas and California? The ones who wrote the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? The ones who didn’t open the border to the third world, or bury us in debt, or ruin our schools, sell us to banks, mire us in wars, break our laws, tax us to death, and embarrass us overseas?

We’re left with one of two options. Either polls hadn’t been invented yet, or Americans are retarded. And depending on the subject and the year, my money is on both. (Maybe, counting my blessings, I should just be happy Americans did the reverse and put them on the money. But then again we put “In God We Trust” there too, and we know how much Americans actually take after Him).

We know why George W Bush was dead last. By the end of his term the money-men had robbed and wrecked the economy. They escaped with Golden Parachutes and George Bush bailed out their companies. We were mired in two unwinnable wars and we destabilized a good chunk of the Middle-East. Because of this, millions of “refugees” — single, military-aged Islamic men — were flooding our allies in Europe. Our border was flooded by illegals and the national debt was going sky-high. He started the trend of directly bribing the American people, in times of trouble, with cash deposits. He created a surveillance state which was used to spy on and prosecute innocent Americans. We saw pictures of Arabs getting tortured, sans-trial, in secret off-shore facilities. In practically every serious metric Bush was a failure. He was given the world and decided to screw the pooch.

*Why would God get 85 for flooding the world and 23 for nuking Sodom and Gomorrah? Because in America, that is currently both the public opinion and the law.

Right now it’s legal to burn the American flag (which represents all of us) and a “hate crime” to tire-burn a rainbow crosswalk (which represents maybe 5-10%). In America you can wish everyone fire and brimstone, but if you just wish it to blacks, you’re out of every job except food trucks and construction.

In this country it's okay to hate “your own people” or the whole country; but the act of putting art into your distaste — of thinking, of preference, when working in any sizable business — is verboten.