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.”
How long before Trump wants her fired?
For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.
Poor polling only matters if there’ll be elections.
Eventually, it will get bad enough that it matters regardless.
Especially in a country as heavily armed as the US.
Well, a month ago a majority still approved… so I guess it’s a tiny minuscule progress? One eaten face at a time?
Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”
SOROOOOOOOOS!
shakes tiny fist
“What Fox just reported is illegal.”
– DJTJokes on them, he’s not doing this for the American people.
“I already got your votes. Fuck you.”
— Donald
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.
When the UK last had a moron setting everything on fire she was outlasted by a lettuce.
Americans need to up their game.
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
Impeachment should and still would work, my point was its a higher threshold than most processes to replace the PM in the UK.
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.
Sadly there isn’t any equivalent to a non-confidence vote in US politics.
You suggesting a cabbage?
How strong is your cabbage game?
He’s not underwater where it really matters, physically.
Right? Now do his head.
You know what would be dope tho is if he were underwater in a swasticar.
What’s absolutely crazy is he just signed an EO to get rid of USAGM…
For those who don’t know, that’s basically the propaganda arm of the US government and has been for a very long time.
This is probably the most surprising thing so far for me, I really thought he’d expand that to do more work domestically to counteract all the bad press and approval loss his actions are resulting in.
Like, I get why Putin doesn’t want the rest of the world to like us, but it’s just crazy they’re getting rid of USAGM instead of just changing the propaganda it spreads.
Actually kind of relieved to see it shut down, this is a weird morning.
he’s very dumb
Genuinely, though, it is hard to gauge at times which actions are:
- Genuinely malicious plans to increase his and his cronies’ wealth
- Confused, because Elon or Trump were in a specific mood that particular day
- Some actor behind the scenes manipulating them by taking advantage of their impulsivity
- The genuine incompetence of the newly appointed loyalists (or the algorithms/AI they use) within the new deep state
- Genuinely ideologically motivated stupidity, from Libertarians that drank their own cool-aid within the administration.
It is genuine chaos. But overall, the effects are pretty disastrous, no matter what exactly causes which actions.
It’s narcissism all the way down. His sole motivation for anything is ego stroking. He lacks self esteem and the ability to value himself. His self worth only exists in validation from others.
I’m looking at Trump as a Russian agent who was assigned to dismantle the US government. Everything he does makes sense when you look at it that way. And it’s horrifying.
LOL Russian agent, look at the conspiracy guy, don’t fall off the flat earth
Sounds like Elon is eliminating competition to his propaganda machine.
Get rid of all branches and implement your own with your own swamp creatures.
declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance
Another Quinnipiac poll from last month determined 45 percent
So half of the people still approve of what he’s doing? How does such a small percentage even justify a news article with such a ridiculous headline? The US are so cooked it’s not even funny. Wake me when it’s at 90% disapproval.
I would assume most people don’t pay particular attention until they are directly affected. Apathy across the West is a major problem.
What stands out to me is that they are making a big deal out if a small change…to a Republican approval rating. This is exactly the type of data they’d be holding up while screaming about how bad Obama is, for instance. Did feel odd using the tactic against their own, let alone god emperor Cheeto.
They’re probably trying to take control of the party back from Trump. They did push back against him during his first term, but fell flat on their faces and started losing viewers to Newsmax. Now they’re trying to back it with data. They’ve spent the last few decades training their viewers to ignore data, though, so we’ll see how that goes.
I’ve never heard of that polling agency in my life before. I had to look it up, it’s a private university in Connecticut.
I sure didn’t get polled about any of this.
So no, more precisely, half of all people polled by this one school in a state that nobody talks about approve of what he’s doing. I’m willing to bet half of those people have no idea what’s going on.
I have a very hard time believing that half of all Americans are happy and content with current events. I live here, I hear people complain.
Do you honestly believe good polls call everyone for a poll, or that they need to to get good results?
I do think they need to have a good sample size to get results that make sense, yes.
Doing some research on it, seems like Quinnipiac’s standard polling is conducted “in more than 20 states and cities as well as nationally” (particular locations not specified) and has typically 1,000+ respondents using random digit dialing. Meaning they just slap random numbers into the phone and see who picks up.
I can’t say I can immediately come up with a better solution right off the top of my head right now, but I can identify several problems with their approach, namely being actual size of sample (1000 respondents is 0.000003% of the population) and the way they gather their responses (when was the last time you answered the phone for an unknown caller? Now when was the last time your grandmother did?).
From what I remember from university stats, 1000 is the standard sample size for these types of things and accurate to a reasonable margin of error (±3% iirc).
This is assuming that it’s truly a representative sample though, and frankly I’m with you that I do have my doubts that over-the-phone surveys sufficiently represent the youth.
Can we stop bullying transpeole now and admit maybe it actually IS Trump that’s the problem?
On the one hand, I support a politician who does the right things despite public opinion. Fuck approval ratings. On the other hand, how can a single person be wrong about fucking everything? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
He stopped penny minting. I’m sure he accidentally did one other good thing for the adage to be true
He destroyed the American Empire too, but that feels like giving Hitler credit for shooting Hitler.
But he did it in the worst possible way, with massive avoidable collateral damage.
No he didn’t. The worst possible way would be to drag the rest of the western world into fascism with him, which he could’ve done if he’d just spaced out his horrible actions and used a bit of bureaucrat-speak to hide the full impact of what he was doing. Instead, the rest of the democratic world is forming a new economic and diplomatic structure that leaves America out.
I mean depends on how you look at it. In many ways, the world NEEDS to get off it’s dollar addiction. Having a hegemonic currency isn’t great for humanity as a whole. And Trump is doing the very best I’ve ever seen at helping the world cure itself of this problem. Not great for USA, but an important step for how geopolitics will work moving forward. Unless you meant doing everything wrong for Americans, then yes, Trump is awful.
It’s pretty destabilizing globally too. I don’t see the dollar addiction going anywhere; it’s just changing currencies.
We really don’t need China or Russia (or KSA or EU) calling the shots globally either.
There is a reason central banks are buying gold, and that it is making new all-time highs, and recently breached $3K/oz. They’re anticipating the demise of the dollar, and minimizing their exposure to the chaos from the U.S. and buying gold instead of U.S. bonds. Look for this trend to accelerate, especially once the U.S. reaches the point where it can’t sell enough bonds to finance it’s budget deficit, leading to a massive debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar. Gold is already on track to be up >50% this year (up 13.7% so far ytd), and the consistent rise in gold while stocks and other investments fare poorly will only fuel the stampede. I’m confident that gold will end 2025 over $4k/oz, and that 2026 will be even crazier.
Dammit, I should have never dropped out of my Applied Alchemy Program at the University of Phoenix.
Those credits will transfer to clown college
I was disenrolled against my will because my pants weren’t baggy enough.
Not sure it will change. The global south and more importantly BRICS has created a system where local currencies are used. It’s basically a currency swap. If this can be extended to all nations there won’t be a currency hegemon at all. Of course while it’s been working well for the countries that are doing it, it’s hard to say what the effects would be on a global scale. Still, we should work towards it. Note I am not talking about the BRICS currency, which is not real. Not even sure why it gets brought up at all.
*Edit. This is an article about the expansion of China’s currency swap deals.
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-push-currency-swap-with-29-countries-worth-550-billion
Note that while this is about China, all BRICS nations are making currency swap deals with each other. It’s just easier to find articles about China doing this because China is so massive.
I don’t know, I think what will just end up happening is china’s “dollar” taking its place instead
We’re just going to end up exchanging one superpower for another, it’s not going to fundamentally fix the problem. For that you’d need to do it more sensibly
I won’t say that won’t happen. But interestingly, China isn’t trying to make their currency a hegemonic currency. Instead, they’ve been promoting currency swaps that use both local currencies. And it’s picking up speed. All the BRICS nations are making currency swap agreements amongst each other. As I said in another post, I have no idea if this can go global. But it’s something I hope we can all work towards. Any currency hegemon is bad for the world. The strangest thing is it appears China agrees, regardless of what western propaganda says about China.
There’s a difference between being a populist and actually representing your constituents, which is after all the job they’re paid to do.
