BULLETIN:  TRUMP HITS 50% – AT 9:33 A.M. ET:  President Trump has just hit 50% in the Rasmussen poll:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 38% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 38% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of 0.

And that isn't the only good news for the president this morning.  Gallup has more.  From bizpacreview.com:

Democrats may find their fragile dreams of a midterm election takeover in danger.

A new poll indicates Americans are actually pretty happy with the country’s position in the world, and that they haven’t felt this good about it in 13 years. The fact that President Donald Trump may have more than a little to do with that could be a dream-crusher for Democrats. At the least, it is certainly a narrative-buster.

According to a new Gallup poll this week:

Forty-five percent of Americans are satisfied with the position of the United States in the world, a 13-year high and a 13-percentage-point increase from one year ago, just after President Donald Trump took office. The public is also more likely than it was a year ago to think the U.S. rates favorably in the eyes of the rest of the world.

COMMENT:  It is reported that when these surveys were announced this morning, CNN rushed counselors to its newsrooms to comfort the staff, some of whom threatened to walk out on the window ledges.  We urge compassion for these people.  They are emotionally fragile.

The president's numbers keep increasing.  Clearly, one reason is that he has successfully changed the economic psychology of the country.  Another reason is that he's doing the job.  And a third reason is that Americans are learning, as they did during the Reagan administration, to ignore much of what the media puts out.

February 23,  2018