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Summary

Trump’s approval rating dropped to 43%, the lowest since his January return to office, amid backlash over new tariffs and a mishandled military strike disclosure.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll found only 37% approve of his economic leadership, and 34% support his foreign policy.

A majority view his tariff hikes as harmful, while 74% criticized the use of Signal to discuss a Yemen operation.

The poll, conducted online with 1,486 adults, showed bipartisan concern and a 2-point decline since March, reflecting rising unease over Trump’s policies.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    So many unreachable people in this country. 43%? How the fuck could it be above 10% is the mystery.

    And 37% still approve of his “economic leadership”? WTAF?

    • Critical_Thinker@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      They do not understand and the understanding they have has been formed with propaganda for decades.

      American politics has been so far from it’s idealistic roots in democracy and supplanted by the wealthy for decades if not a century or longer. Allowing businesses to fund campaigns openly in the 70s has to have been a big tipping point and why we have allowed it is bizarre to me. We have basically no media today that isn’t highly politicized one way or another. Bezos has altered his media to fit whatever party furthers it’s business goals… like most oligarch owned businesses following suit whether or not they are media.

      I don’t think things can be changed anymore though. I think pandora’s box opened at some point and it can’t be shut again without tearing civilization down.

    • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      And 37% still approve of his “economic leadership”?

      “You know, I saw MadMax back in the day and it seemed like the lads were having a lot of fun.”

      Edit: Since this is not a meme sub: You know as well as I do that this many people genuinely believe Trump when he says this is somehow good for the US. The quote I’ve commonly read in connection with this is “finally the other countries will be paying their fair share!”.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Don’t about things you can’t change. Like who is the president. You don’t actually vote for a president, the electoral college electors do. You literally vote to suggests to these random fellers who to vote for. Then, they vote for whoever the fuck gave them the new shiny car.

    • person420@lemmynsfw.com
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      17 days ago

      Our election process sucks, but it’s not because of faithless electors. The vast majority of times it was because the candidate died before the election.

      Since 1900, there have been only 16 faithless electors who defected for individual reasons

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        How about your vote is worth 1/56th or something like that in comparison to my vote just because you live in the wrong state. Or how about you are the one gay guy in a straight community so your vote on any gay related agenda means nothing. How about that?

        • person420@lemmynsfw.com
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          16 days ago

          …yea that sucks. Like I said, our election system sucks. All I pointed out is your assertion that electors are getting new cars in order to vote against the wishes of their state isn’t really a thing.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Anyone else concerned that a felon rapist who is crashing our economy still has a 43% approval rating?

    • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      i cant believe the other 57% are so useless. screw them. cant even get a majority or dont even vote. americans are pathetic. democratic party is a joke. i can easily believe 43% are with shithead. where should they have learned any better? may nancy pelosi keep inside trading, chuck schumer lie about gaza… just shit people everywhere.

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Down 4% today so far. Retirement fantasies evaporating. Probably good news for 20 somethings, they can buy more and if they survive the climate change famines, water wars, genocides, and non-renewable resource shortages, those shares will probably be worth a lot.

  • Montreal_Metro@lemmy.caEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I don’t think we can trust the polls since there’s no free press in USA anymore so as far as I’m concerned it’s US government regime propaganda.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      17 days ago

      Bush II had an approval rating around 25-30% at the end of his time in office. Consider that the bottom for how many people will still support a complete and obvious failure.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    USA has a lot more crazy people than I ever suspected.
    This lack of realization when faced with reality is way beyond any worst case scenario I ever imagined.
    I thought most of the people who voted for him, simply didn’t believe the warnings. Turns out they actually support that shit?!?!

      • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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        16 days ago

        I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush’s no child left behind Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.

    • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      They never face reality, we allowed malignant propoganda to spread and take over a huge chunk of our media presenting a false reality to many who don’t have the media (or functional) literacy to understand when they’re being manipulated. Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level - they can read the words, but the full nuanced understanding is beyond them.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level

        Is this factual? Because if that’s true, that’s extremely bad, even shameful for a rich country like USA.

        • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          Yes, that is factual. There’s a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.

            • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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              16 days ago

              I’m not sure what these numbers are measuring, but it looks like less than 85% of schools in the US reported their data, could be a sampling bias there. Also, this is maybe at age 15, when many of the worst readers have already dropped out of school.

              It looks like most countries have shitty literary levels, then. I was unaware other countries were just as bad. A quick Google showed a few results not quite in agreement saying the average for adults was 7th-8th grade in the US, or that half were below 6th.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Happy thoughts my dude.

      Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)

    • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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      17 days ago

      We need to take that away from him. Ignore whatever fascist shit he plans and throw giant rogue celebrations everywhere. I hate people but I will show up to counter celebrate democracy just to take away from his unearned prestige.

  • 0li0li@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Still has all the power in the world. What if it dropped to 20%, would that make any difference?

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      The republican congress members are still voted in. They can impeach if it gets bad enough

        • Thrashy@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          When the base is mad enough to throw them out if they don’t. The Florida special elections didn’t flip any seats, but they showed a 15-point swing away from the GOP in deep red parts of the state. That’s gonna make them sweat. Unless they can sufficiently rig the midterms or sway Trump off his current “crash the economy for lulz” trajectory, it may well be a bloodbath, and that’s the sort of math that starts peeling sycophants away from Trump.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        17 days ago

        Tell me… what happens if they impeach?

        The executive stops even remotely pretending to operate by the rule of law?

        • nfh@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          Impeachment is easy, relatively speaking. A simple majority of the House can impeach Trump as they did twice in his last term. I believe the number is 7, of 220 Republicans in the house, would need to vote to impeach.

          Getting a trial in the Senate to convict and remove, which requires a two thirds vote, would need about 20 Republicans, of 53 to vote to convict. I can’t imagine what would need to happen for that to occur. And even if it does, JD Vance is sworn in by Roberts as POTUS? I guess that means we’re in a world where Republicans think that’s better in some significant group.