On Wednesday, Rasmussen reports released its daily presidential tracking poll. It put President Trump at 48% approval. That's a four-point jump in two days from Rasmussen, a five-point increase from his recent low of 43% on May 16th. Now, it is worth noting that other polls are far less favorable to Trump. Two contemporaneous polls, the Economist and Gallup have them at 40% and 38% respectively, and Fox News has him at 38% too. But if the Trump bump is real, it makes a bit of sense. That's for three reasons. Number one, Trump isn't tweeting. I know a lot of Zach likes like when he tweets, but because Trump is overseas and busily traveling the globe, he's not up at all hours watching MSNBC and CNN and tweeting nasty notes to the hosts or retweeting botched summaries of Fox and Friends Kairons. He's also not pouring more gasoline on the Trump-Russia kindling, the media have said. He hasn't tweeted about FBI director James Comey or reports that he told intelligence officials. He'd appreciate it if they'd exonerate him or any of the other anonymous material coming out of the media daily. That means that

these stories tend to die quickly since anonymous stories aren't being confirmed by Trump's own hand,

and since Trump isn't insisting that his communications team rushed to the nearest microphones

appear at his talking points. Most of the damage on the Trump-Russia stuff has been self-inflicted,

and that's easy to see when Trump stops inflicting said damage on himself. Second, the country isn't collapsing. Trump left the country, the country's fine.

The left promulgates this myth, whereby the president must sit at the controls of the airliner

that is the United States each and every day, lest we all go full zombie apocalypse on one

another and the plane crashes into a building. Instead, Trump is out of the country,

partying it up with glowing orbs and swords, and the country's getting along pretty much just fine. Nobody's dying. Nobody's panicking.

In other words, a predictable government is the best available option, and Trump gallivanting around

reminds us all he's not capable of screwing it up this badly. Terrorism is a winning issue for Trump.

This is the third point. The terror attack on Monday obviously helped Trump politically because the left is so damn irresponsible about it.

Trump's perspective, fewer unvetted Muslims in the West means fewer unvetted Muslims killing

other people killing other people in the West. And that's eminently correct. His skepticism of

the radical Islam resonates far better than the left's asinine John Lennon-imaginesque pseudo-philosophy. Trump was elected to bomb the bleep out of ISIS. Seeing the slaughter of eight-year-old girls at a pop concert reminds people that's a task worth pursuing. President Trump should be making notes. When he comes back to the U.S., he should be the same President Trump we're seeing abroad. Muted but strong, a bombastic showman when the time is right.

If he does all that, maybe we can get this thing back on the rails. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

So we have a huge show coming up for you today. Coming up in just a couple of minutes,

we're supposed to have Senator Ben Sass from Nebraska, whose book The Vanishing American Adult, our coming of Age Crisis and How to Build a Culture of Self-Reliance, is now number three on the New York Times bestseller chart. I'm a big fan of Senator Sass is obviously one of the last honest conservatives in Washington, D.C. Hopefully we can get the technology worked out. He's supposed to call in, so we'll chat with him about the issues of the day.

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