This week’s YouGov/Economist national survey asked respondents in a straight line “Which of these words would you use to describe Donald Trump?” and found that, among those who previously said they had voted for the Orange Tyrant in 2024, a slim plurality of 49 percent said “corrupt” does not describe him versus 8 percent who said yes it does describe him and, in that time-honored tradition for this pollster, 44 percent said they didn’t know, meaning “didn’t want to answer.” Overall it was 47 to 22 to 31 percent said yes, no, and don’t know if “corrupt” describes Trump, respectively.

On “racist,” just 52 percent of his voters could say he is not while 5 percent said he is, “intelligent” 66 percent said yes to 5 percent no. “Honest” was just 49 percent of Trump voters saying yes, 37 percent said no to “dangerous” – though the 16 percent saying yes on that one are probably seeing it as a positive. Same with “cruel” at 10 percent of the fat bastard’s 2024 voters saying yes to just 46 percent no. “Out-of-touch” was a rough one at only 41 percent of them saying he isn’t.

What makes these findings even more salient as to how Donald’s own voters view him is the contrast with the questions on his physical and mental health as pretty solid majorities still give him a vote of confidence on those metrics: 72 percent said “Trump is not suffering any cognitive decline” plus another 8 percent saying it’s just modest. On “physical decline” it was 62 percent none and 16 percent modest. Asked then “Is Trump too old to be President?” 77 percent of his voters said no.

Obviously those numbers are less than ideal for a president who thinks of himself as a living god and especially after four years of “Sleepy Joe,” but they’re a lot closer in line with what you’d expect from respondents who ostensibly still support the demented old corpse. It also tracks with his 82 percent job approval rating among them – which also is not ideal and the only thing propping up up a fucking abysmal 38/56 percent overall approve/disapprove rating in the survey. And yet put it all together with really not great ratings on personal qualities, ones that everyone should at least be able to lie to themselves and others about a politician they support, and it could be a leading indicator that the worst is yet to come. Not being able to say he’s honest, has integrity, is particularly smart, decent, trustworthy, respects minorities, and so on while still trying to come up with other reasons to tell a pollster you still approve of the job he’s doing only gets harder and harder as shit gets worse.

Especially when only 16 percent of Trump voters can lie to themselves on “Are gas prices where you live going up or going down?” and only 1 percent of those could muster up a “Going down a lot.”