Olson: UN Fiasco, Ukraine Polling & Presidential Walk of Fame
Byline: Olson Strategies Staff
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Dustin Olson, lead pollster for American Pulse Research & Polling and Managing Partner at Olson Strategies, joined National Report on Newsmax to react to the United Nations event, highlight new polling on President Trump’s efforts to achieve peace in areas like Ukraine, and comment on the new Presidential Walk of Fame, with former President Biden featured as a picture of the autopen.
UN Fiasco & Institutional Breakdown
Olson questioned the UN’s explanation that a White House videographer accidentally triggered an escalator’s safety function.
“I'm amazed that they have it so that it can so easily be shut down. Someone can accidentally trip that? That's not that believable. But regardless, this is the inflow for the president coming into an event. And the fact that could happen means someone could actually change his progress into an event...that's dangerous. But this is the UN for you, and it's a perfect metaphor. Everything breaking down there when, as an institution, it's been breaking down for quite some time.”
Trump’s Peace Efforts in the Polls
He contrasted UN inaction with polling support for President Trump’s approach to Ukraine.
“You see the UN, they write their strongly worded letters, and then Donald Trump is actually seeking peace around the world. And, when we look at the polling, you see in the recent Harvard Harris Poll, that 66% of Americans support his efforts to end the war in Ukraine, and people who say they're satisfied with his negotiations, that's up by five points in the last two months. So he's definitely doing stuff that the American people care about and want him to do. And it's definitely a change for the folks at the UN.”
Presidential Troll & Political Scandals
Olson called the president’s reaction “the perfect kind of troll” because it brings focus to a much bigger issue. As Olson says: “100% of communication is attention,” and the new Presidential Walk of Fame lays bare the truth that the media and the Biden Administration pulled the wool over the American people’s eyes as the President Biden’s abilities.
“Whether it's petty or not, it's hilarious, and this is the perfect kind of troll that this president does. You can't look away. And it actually brings up a really important issue we've had… real questions about what happened over the last four years. And you see some of these Biden advisers who are now testifying, some of them are actually kind of getting to the truth of what was going on. This is a big scandal for the country, and in our own polling, we saw that this [the Biden-Trump Debate] was the moment in the last election when the curtain was pulled back. People saw who the real Oz was… And people were shocked by that.”
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