NO NEWS NEWS – AT 9:56 A.M. ET:  The news industry is getting desperate for more anti-Trump news.  From Reuters: 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - About one in eight people who voted for President Donald Trump said they are not sure they would do so again after witnessing Trump's tumultuous first six months in office, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2016 voters.

While most of the people who voted for Trump on Nov. 8 said they would back him again, the erosion of support within his winning coalition of older, disaffected, mostly white voters poses a potential challenge for the president. Trump, who won the White House with the slimmest of margins, needs every last supporter behind him to push his agenda through a divided Congress and potentially win a second term in 2020.

The poll surveyed voters who had told Reuters/Ipsos on Election Day how they had cast their ballots.

While other surveys have measured varying levels of disillusionment among Trump supporters, the Reuters/Ipsos poll shows how many would go as far as changing the way they voted. The survey was carried out first in May and then again in July.

COMMENT:  Hardly shocking.  It's actually very common for presidents to lose support, or struggle to get support, during their first year.  And it is very common for presidents to take a beating in the first mid-year election following their own taking the oath.  Negative opinion is pretty casually developed.

FDR suffered enormous losses in Congress in his first mid-term following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  We were at war, fighting for our existence, and yet the people handed the commander-in-chief a substantial defeat.

Maybe it's the American "show us what you can do" attitude.  But it's not a major headline that Trump is struggling.

July 20,  2017