Summary
Trump’s approval rating has turned negative in a new YouGov/Economist poll, with 50% disapproving versus 45% approving of his job performance.
This marks the first underwater rating in a month, following similar trends in other polls. Political experts attribute the decline to backlash against tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and DOGE’s federal worker firings.
While Trump maintains stronger approval on national security (51%) and immigration (50%), he scores lowest on inflation (42%).
The poll shows a particularly sharp drop among independents, shifting from -5 to -17 approval margin.
How the fuck is he still close to 50%? Do those idiots have to go broke and hungry for not getting their social security, and have their mum die due to no medicaid?
Because they’re watching mainstream news, which even tiptoes around the tarrifs and doesn’t broadcast Trump’s daily interviews unless a clip makes him look good. They really just know the government is getting cut and that we’ve started a trade war with (checks notes) everyone
This is going to change when effects of his policies actually start to land - so far we’re looking at disastrous moves in horror, but they’re getting a very toned down snapshot through a rose colored lens
The tariffs haven’t actually gone through so there’s still people that think he’s just threatening them to get a better deal. They don’t know he’s just stupid as hell and will put the tariffs in and they will cause a recession or depression.
And in particular, people do not understand how justifiably epically pissed off Canadians are about Trump threatening their sovereignty. There’s an entire dimension of Trump’s willful destruction of the US’ foreign alliances that I don’t think the general public is aware of at all.
Right-wing media capture is a significant contributor, plus many of these people have been supporting him for so long that it’s like a frog in boiling water. That said, as more and more if this shit starts effecting them personally, they’ve been loosing faith in their Omnisiah God-King.
Why would Biden to that to them?!
This is nothing. Approval ratings below 40% are extremely common in modern presidencies. Trump himself left office the first time with an approval rating of 34% and an average of 41%.
In Tropico, this normally ends badly for El Presidente.
I just don’t hold elections. Never been an issue for me
Penultimo on the other hand
Yeah I’m not convinced any politician cares about approval ratings anymore because they might be going this route
Fucking Schumer said his plan is to wait until it’s below 27%, and then start trying…
So I don’t get why 45% approval is a win if it’s barely half way to dem leaderahip doing…
Well, anything
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s own approval rating is that low, and they’re still not sure when they’re supposed to start trying…
I feel like if we titled both as "rich people’s approval rating " it comes into focus a bit more.
You got it backwards. He said he would bet that the republicans would wait till 40%, wile democrats are at 27%…. So even when trump gets below 40, the democrats will do nothing and sit there preparing their “i told you so speech” assuming that some republicans will walk over to them to receive it. He is playing completely passive.
Polls don’t matter to a party of fucking fascists.
I learned 51% on respondents to that poll don’t know shit about national security, so I’d say that marks all the other numbers outside of approval rating (b/c that just measures vibes) as suspect.
We’re about to get an Executive Order deleting all polling organizations except the ones that align with President Trump’s Executive Orders, aren’t we?
he doesn’t care about court orders, why doesn’t anyone think he cares about someone’s approval
Glad it is going down.
