Independents' changing perception of Trump is driving down his approval rating, according to a new YouGov poll.

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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    26·
    12 days ago

    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?

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      10·
      12 days ago

      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

      • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        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.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          2·
          12 days ago

          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.

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
      5·
      12 days ago

      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.