National embarrassment: A majority of Americans don’t like having Donald Trump as president, and his wall isn’t helping him
Trump's base of support — white voters and men — is rapidly crumbling
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A majority of voters in the U.S. are embarrassed to have Donald Trump as their president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday. Fifty-two percent of voters said they were embarrassed that Trump is leading the nation, while only 27 percent stated they were proud. Trump also appears to be losing popularity within key factions of his voter base — men and white people. Fifty-one percent of white male voters and 48 percent of all white voters polled said they disapprove of the way Trump is handling his new job. In total, only 35 percent approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency, while 57 percent said they disapprove.
These views by no means exclusively represent the left, or those who are flat out anti-Trump. Some of the president’s voters appear to be having second thoughts. Even in deep-red Texas, he’s having trouble, and that may be be precisely because of his wall.
A CNN investigative report examined the repercussions living near the border. It turns out, there is a long history of lawsuits filed by the government that would take property from homeowners. Trump’s wall is planned to cover the entire border, and some of his own supporters plan to fight the administration in court.
One family in particular, who had been farming the south Texas for nearly one hundred years, had their land cut in half 10 years ago — the last time the U.S. government was building a wall along the border.
“I was very angry, I just kept saying, how can they do that? How is that possible in the United States that they can do this?” D’Ann Loop of Brownsville recalled to CNN. “They put up a fence in front of our land and then keep us in here — lock us in. I didn’t understand. I was very — I was floored and flabbergasted.”