Donald Trump has been president for 364 days now—so, you know a year. It’s been one entire trip around the sun for the planet Earth since Trump’s sparsely attended inauguration, and he hasn’t managed to blow it up yet. That’s an achievement unto itself, what with his constant bloviating on Twitter, his threats to Kim Jong-un of North Korea, calling other countries “sh*tholes,” and his administration’s systematic dismantling of the social safety net, business restrictions, and everything President Obama did.
The result: Not too many people are happy with Trump’s job performance. A recent poll by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal found that Trump has a 39 percent approval rating at the end of the year one. That’s the lowest the poll has ever rated a president at the end of their first year in the Oval Office.
But that poll, and all the others, seek out the opinions of adults, and adults that are likely to vote. They aren’t the only people who have to live under Trump—kid do, too. And they are well aware of what’s going on. They’ve got TV, they’ve got the internet, they’ve got their parents complaining about Trump at dinner. Their opinions match up with the disapproving majority of adult Americans.They might even like Trump even less.
Last night, Jimmy Kimmel Live aired a segment where they asked kids on the street how they think Trump’s first year went.
Among the responses:
One young lady doesn’t like Trump “because he wants to put a wall over Mexico and I like love going to Mexico.”
Another kid, when asked to name the first thing that comes to mind, said, “Small fingers”
What’s the worst thing he’s done? “He needs to stop threatening North Korea because I don’t want to get nuked.”
“He treats people badly and that’s why I don’t think he’s smart.”
When asked to give Trump a Trump-esque nickname, a la “Rocket Man” or “Crooked Hillary,” kids suggested, “Poop Face,” “Mr. Tiny Hands,” and “Cheeto.”