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Trump's Polling Free Fall (www.rollingstone.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org
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In case you haven’t noticed, Donald Trump isn’t very popular.

The president’s polling numbers have been trending downward for the past year, and they’ve been especially brutal since he decided to go to war against Iran in February. It seems like every week a new batch of polls comes out emphasizing just how vigorously Americans have been giving two thumbs down to Trump’s job performance.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released a poll earlier this week putting Trump’s approval at just 33 percent. Reuters/Ipsos released one putting it at 36 percent. Earlier this month, a CNN poll found only 31 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance, the lowest number across his career in politics. His numbers weren’t great before the war, either. The Pew Research Center had Trump’s approval at 37 percent in January. Gallup no longer polls for presidential approval, but in December they charted Trump’s at 36 percent, down from 47 percent at the beginning of his term. RealClearPolitics’ polling average shows such a steep rise in public disapproval of Trump and such a steep dropoff in public approval since last April that people are making memes out of it.

Funny how when you run on lowering prices and ending wars, then cause inflation and start wars, you might lose some popular support.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So if a president is flirting with one-third support, it should be a warning sign that their domestic and foreign policies are not resonating, that there’s an inability to address core problems Americans are facing, and an issue with communication between the administration and the people.

Hahahahahaha. There is no communication issue, the administration has been very clear about how many fucks it gives about American citizens, which is zero.

I'm so sick as living fuck of everybody normalizing this as though "it's just a communication issue" or a "inability to address core problems" when it's not a lack of communication, it's that they don't care and it's not an inability to address core problems, it's that they want to make them worse because they think poor people deserve to suffer for the crime of being poor.

This isn't a normal democratic government, and that's saying a lot since USA has hardly been a real democracy anyway.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 2 weeks ago

plenty of malicious dereliction of duty suffusing GOP governance these days

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trump's genius was that he could take that self hatred and point it at a nebulous combination of the Deep State, Democrats, immigrants, and brown people.

The approximate 30% who haven't turned on him probably never will. Even if they saw pictures of Trump killing a child he'd raped they'd still blame someone else.

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The fact that even one of his constituents still approves of his administration is insane to me.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Not that it matters but they've lost the ability to ever complain about a democrat doing anything ever. Trump has failed any and all moral tests.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are some people out there who get off on eating other people's literal shit... so yeah, insane but here we are with a crowd of shit breath dickheads running around fucking up the joint.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Inasmuch as one can fuck up a Nazi bar.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The fact that he has 33-36% approval is insane to me. What does he have to do to lose that 1/3 of the country?

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Kill them or get them to kill themselves. I believe that is quite literally the only way they would stop supporting him.

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Piss off who ever they’re getting their information filtered through.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

When you average them all together it's not as extreme, but yes he's very unpopular and reaching new lows. https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

That’s a super high approval rating by British standards. It’d be like if Tony Blair and Thatcher had a baby.