Gallup: “It is well-established that President Trump’s ratings are the most politically polarized Gallup has measured for a president. Trump’s support also has shown consistent differences by gender and by race and education, among other characteristics. What has been less clear is whether those subgroup differences mainly reflect the party leanings of those groups or if they demonstrate an appeal Trump has to certain groups that transcends partisanship.”

“A new Gallup analysis of 2019 Trump job approval data indicates that subgroup differences largely originate in the party orientation of those groups. Once party is taken into account, there is little to no variation among demographic or attitudinal subgroups. To the extent subgroup differences exist, they are more apparent among independents than among Republicans or Democrats.”

Pete Buttigieg told Vox that President Trump is “radicalizing” Americans.

Buttigieg noted that “when people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.”

He added: “And I think a lot of Americans are being radicalized by this administration. The experience of disruption that’s gone on, especially in the interior, has obviously made it more fertile to being taken advantage of by people like this president.”

President Trump’s flip-flop on Special Olympics funding is “a reminder of why his team can never feel safe: He loves to put aides in their place,” Axios reports.

“And it’s why at home and abroad, no one is really sure that anyone besides Trump — even a Cabinet member — is speaking for the administration.”

“Administration officials past and present have told us that Trump savors news coverage that shows him acting unilaterally. Even — one source said especially — when it involved like overriding members of his own administration.”

“President Trump feels vindicated. And now he’s out for blood. Wearing the same red tie he wore on Inauguration Day, Trump took the stage in Michigan on Thursday for the first time since being cleared of Russian conspiracy charges and proceeded to tear through a vengeance-laced speech that felt as much like a second inaugural as it did a campaign rally,” Politico reports.

“One by one in front of a packed audience, Trump ticked through those who he felt wronged him over the 22-month Russia probe that dogged his presidency — from lawmakers to television pundits — egging the adoring crowd on as it chanted, ‘Lock them up.’ And he expressed sympathy for those caught up in the probe, describing them as ‘innocent’ individuals badly damaged by ‘an elaborate hoax,’ amid speculation that he will pardon former aides facing Mueller-related prison time.”

“I’m smarter than they are, I went to better schools than they did, I have better apartments than they have, I’m better educated all around. I have a much more beautiful house, much more beautiful anything. And I’m president and they’re not.” 

— President Trump, quoted by The Hill, on “liberal elites.”