Summary
A Fox News host, Jessica Tarlov, highlighted Trump’s declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance.
Trump is “underwater on everything” including economy, federal workforce management, Ukraine-Russia policy, and trade relations with Mexico and Canada.
The polling slide comes amid stock market tumbles, federal worker layoffs, and trade tensions.
Tarlov noted that Republican members of Congress are facing hostile town halls where constituents are challenging them on federal workforce cuts, including at the VA. Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”
Hell must be freezing right now with FoxNews even calling out Trump. With tumbling stock market, I did not think that “voting with your wallet” actually works.
I am more curious as to what will Democrats do next in light of Trump admin’s first hundred and more gaffes. Will the Democrats learn from their mistakes and reform? Or will they exploit Trump’s gaffes like during Covid, but learn nothing and the Republicans will field someone worse for the next election (assuming there will be a next election)? Or, at worse, will Democrats continue to enable Trump like they are now with Chuck Schumer?
He has a positive approval rating in both houses of congress and the Supreme Court.
Also among mentally unstable billionaires.
Which is all that matters in reality.
I mean none of this matters he was popular on one night and that is all that counts.
When the UK last had a moron setting everything on fire she was outlasted by a lettuce.
Americans need to up their game.
Sadly there isn’t any equivalent to a non-confidence vote in US politics.
Sadly the US system is not designed to oust the president that easily. It would be a first if Trump was removed from office due to the impeachment process, removing the prime minister is a much lower bar.
Impeachment should theoretically work but when the system was put in place it didn’t account for an entire political party turning fascist
It actually did, the south was entirely fascist for it’s entire existence, they literally designed the system so the south could always veto the rest of the country combined no matter what, hence the 3/5 compromise giving them power in the house and the structure of the senate.
Impeachment should and still would work, my point was its a higher threshold than most processes to replace the PM in the UK.
You suggesting a cabbage?
How strong is your cabbage game?
He’s not underwater where it really matters, physically.
Right? Now do his head.
Approval ratings only impact elections
Until suddenly they impact everything.
Yes and no. It’s really hard to boast about your “mandate” when a large and still increasing portion of the population publicly hates your guts and thinks you’re doing a shit job. It’s not enough by itself to meaningfully hurt him, but it does make him look bad and undermine his leadership. It is bad for his image, and image is an important component of power.
It’s also bad for his ego and could potentially lead him to behave even more erratically in ways that are ultimately self-destructive. Narcissists famously don’t do well in the face of being perceived negatively. The worse his ratings get, the more humiliating it will be for him. It is important to hurt their morale at every opportunity, even if it’s not nearly enough to stop them on its own. Demoralized, defensive MAGA will always be a weaker foe than energized, popular MAGA.
Idk I’ve always noticed he doesn’t give AF about reality. He just lies and if called out he just doubles down on his lies until he breaks the electorate and he gets elected again.
I used the same strategy to hide that I was smoking weed to my parents.
He’s a narcissist. Trust me, he cares. Yes, he will lie. He will lie to the world and to himself. Because he literally CANNOT cope. But that isn’t going to serve him. The more he lies to the world, the more deranged he will look, and the more he lies to himself, the more he will crash out mentally and self-destruct.
I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?
The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn’t even show up for the election, they probably won’t show up for this.
Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that ‘47% approval’ translates to ‘47% of all Americans approve’?
It’s not actually a two answer only poll, you can view it HERE
In Quinnipiac University’s February 19 poll, 45 percent approved, while 49 percent disapproved and 6 percent did not offer an opinion and in Quinnipiac University’s January 29 poll, 46 percent approved, while 43 percent disapproved and 11 percent did not offer an opinion.
In today’s [March 13th] poll, Republicans (89 - 9 percent) approve of the job Trump is doing, while Democrats (96 - 2 percent) and independents (58 - 36 percent) disapprove.
EDIT: Formatting error
Placing him at a roughly 30% approval overall, innit?
Only if you assume equal representation of each group in the poll. 42% approve 6% no comment 53% dissapprove total with a very clear partisan split.
Am I the only one who thinks 53% of people disapproving of his performance is actually a pretty good record for him. This number should be in the 90’s.
You have to take into account that at least 30% of the total are likely “Trump is sent by God and is devinely inspired and therefore can do no wrong” crowd. So when his disapproval number hits 70% that’s as high as it’ll go.
Except I thought he was only elected by 31% of the public and at least a small portion of them are turning against him too. Remember a lot of people didn’t vote.
I think if you give it a month or two that number is going to change significantly. Most people haven’t really started to feel/see the consequences of his actions yet, and there is a bit of a lag.
I hope you’re right and it ends this whole shit show.
This is very optimistic for the devotion behind a cult. People are already used to sacrificing for an oligarch.
Can we stop bullying transpeole now and admit maybe it actually IS Trump that’s the problem?
Ppl always need someone to blame for complicated problems or to down play true issues. If it’s not Trans it’ll be lgbtq, black ppl, Muslims, Latinos, Natives, etc.
His next plan will be to start a war
I don’t see him starting a war without complete control of the military. While they are working on it, firing leadership, changing rules and policies, the military still has the power to say no to Trump, which is bad TV. Trump is also a bitch as seen by the wishy-washy way he approaches tariffs, he hates actual action because he just wants good TV and bad policy makes for bad TV.
Invading panama
Or Greenland, or Canada, or Mexico… Truly a winning strategy to threaten everyone all at once. 🙄
Oh for sure, but he’s said to draw up plans to get Panama. So right now that’s the most “real” one
My money is on Mexico, he has been placing brigades with Strykers and whatnot on that border. Whatever the case, still stupid and evil.
Shit. I hope those extra soldiers on the border that Mexico sent are enough deterrent
So this greentext might actually come true?
with his fucking cottage cheese brain he’ll demand plans for invading Panama and then immediately invade Brazil
People when the world’s most illiterate celebrity does all of the dumb, racist shit he says he is going to do:
How long before Trump wants her fired?
Well, a month ago a majority still approved… so I guess it’s a tiny minuscule progress? One eaten face at a time?
For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.
“The president’s approval rating has been struggling for at least a month”
He’s only been in office 53 days… so struggling 56.6% of the time… at least.
