HE LIKES LARGE PARTIES

Trump’s Approval Tanks After Gatsby Party During Shutdown

“When people are hungry, he had a party,” said one Republican from Florida.

A new poll shows that approval for how President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped among all U.S. adults, including Republicans. An AP-NORC poll conducted in November—after major Democratic wins in the Nov. 5 elections and before the Senate vote to end the government shutdown—found that the share of Republicans who approve of how Trump, 79, is managing the federal government fell from 81 percent in March to 68 percent. Among all adults, approval of the president’s management fell by 10 percentage points, from 43 percent in March to 33 percent in November. “When people are hungry, he had a party,” said Beverly Lucas, 78, a Republican from Florida, referring to Trump’s Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, held the same weekend nearly 42 million Americans learned that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would be cut due to the government shutdown. Despite Republicans’ attempts to blame the government shutdown on Democrats, polls showed that many Americans were dissatisfied with the president and his party. After the Senate voted on Monday to pass the budget bill with the support of eight Democrats, the longest shutdown in U.S. history is expected to end with a House vote on Wednesday, although many Democrats are unhappy with the deal.