I decided to take a look at our President's approval rating seeing as we have had this president for almost 100 days. The articles I found were vastly more against him than for him as can be expected due to how he handles certain situations. However, I wanted to see if there was a common theme or at least if the articles covered the same reasons for them being dissatisfied with the president.
The first source I went to was from an Op-Ed written by a Charles M. Blow. Charles called his article the 100 Days of Horror. Judging from this I could already tell Charles severely disapproved of our president, but I always prefer to hear the reasoning behind. He points to trump constantly lying and providing "alternative facts" as his main source of frustration with the president, but then goes into more detail about contradicting things that the president said as opposed to what he did. So go through them quickly, he points out how trump said he would be great for women and then goes and decreases funding for planned parenthood. He said that he will support the LGBT community and that people should be able to use the bathroom they are most comfortable with, but then goes and passes the law that revokes the power of the federal government over the protection of teens. He then goes into a topic I haven't heard any news about, African Americans and their struggle with Trump. I could easily assume that Trump wouldn't be a friend to any minority no matter what, but then Charles brings up promises of laws and the judicial system as a whole being more fair for everyone, and then Trump's Justice Department came up with a Voter ID in Texas that so far has been called racially discriminatory by two judges in the state. So, as we can see here, Charles is focusing on promises that were broken or outright not upheld by the president and how he built his campaign isn't turning out how he is running his presidency. He is taking an approach that shows people who aren't aware of the promises Trump made just how contradictory he is truly being.
The next article I took a look at was titled How America is Losing the Credibility War. This Op-Ed was written by Anthony J. Blinken. To summarize, Anthony covers a decent amount of what Charles tackled, but with a bit more focus. Anthony is mainly concerned with the credibility of the President of the United States. not just trump in particular, but in the position as a whole. He looks at how Trump presents alternative facts or puts out tweets about information that might not even be true. He focuses on how trump is misinformed and says that he often falls for conspiracy level misinformation, but then how he also then goes and misinforms the citizens of the US, and more dangerously, misinforms the rest of the world. He talks about how if Trump continues to misinform North Korea with threats that he may scare them into firing first and starting a war. He also goes into that his decreasing credibility is making things more complicated when it comes to trying to shed light on situations such as the chemical weapons used on citizens in Syria. due to trump not being a reliable source in the past, when he presents facts such as this it sounds like its another "alternative fact" from the president. It makes other peoples jobs harder to then justify the missile strike nad provide enough facts to satisfy the public. Anthony looks back to Kennedy and how, even though people may not have agreed with his politics, that they did respect and believe him because of the credibility he established for himself. Anthony also looks back to Obama and how he was such a great counter to Putin because Obama had more credibility than Putin and that credibility allowed him to have good relationships with foreign countries.
Charles looks at broken promises and why Trump is a poor president because of them, and Blinken looks at the broken promises and rash acts Trump has commited and says that these actions show that he isn't credible as a president and in turn is damaging the position of the president and the country as a whole. Both are against trump, but they do their arguing in slightly different ways,
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/100-days-of-horror.html?ref=opinion
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/opinion/how-america-is-losing-the-credibility-war.html?ref=opinion
