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.”
Am I the only one who thinks 53% of people disapproving of his performance is actually a pretty good record for him. This number should be in the 90’s.
Can we stop bullying transpeole now and admit maybe it actually IS Trump that’s the problem?
People when the world’s most illiterate celebrity does all of the dumb, racist shit he says he is going to do:
His next plan will be to start a war
Invading panama
Or Greenland, or Canada, or Mexico… Truly a winning strategy to threaten everyone all at once. 🙄
Oh for sure, but he’s said to draw up plans to get Panama. So right now that’s the most “real” one
How long before Trump wants her fired?
Well, a month ago a majority still approved… so I guess it’s a tiny minuscule progress? One eaten face at a time?
For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.
‘He’s underwater on everything’ - except the one way that matters the most.
He just bought a Tesla, and with any luck that’ll drown him like it did Angela Chao, the billionaire magnate whose brother in law is Mitch McConnell.
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898
I’ll never understand how investigations weren’t launched over that shit
The American taxpayers just bought a Tesla, you mean. Cheeto will never set foot in that, and he sure as hell didn’t pay for it himself.
I’ll take “Things you can’t say on Reddit” for 200
But seriously, even if he was sleeping with the fish the r’s are still a huge a problem. He’s just the front guy, he’ll be replaced with another clown.
Sadly, yes. I mean, Trump knows he’s ‘close’ to his grave and needs to leave some kind of legacy - even if it’s the Hitler kind of one - his narcissistic self just wants to enter them history books as one of the big humans instead of ‘another rich guy’ as a footnote.
Pretty sure either Elon or Vance are already lined up for when the time comes. When Trump leaves the world, and when there’s no longer actual rules preventing them from taking over and ‘fixing’ under martial law what big bad orange wrecked. At least according to them, that is.
No matter how bad what they’re doing seems this is just the preparation stage. Things can become so, so much worse, and the more we let them consolidate power the tougher it’ll be to fight it later.
Someone should start telling him no one has visited the titanic and he could be the first.
Call OceanGate. They can provide the submarine. They have the EXACT experience we need.
The problem with Trump is that he has literally no redeeming qualities. So getting him to go see the titanic would be hard given it would take him having some curiosity about something other than himself.
Tell him there will be a nuclear submarine parade.
His nose is still above water?
Entire head I’d say.
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
But the penny thing is still sinister and petty. He signed the bill to put new portraits on coinage, including a woman on the penny. Then he destroyed the penny so there still would only be men on coins.
Don’t tell him there’s been women on the $1 coin since 1979, and recently themed seasonal quarter reverses that alternate between illegible and just overly busy.
Bad reasoning, good outcome.
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.
At this point I’d rather have China calling the shots than the USA which is actively threatening to fucking invade my country. Seriously fuck that country and fuck its global hegemony, at this point I hope it burns to the fucking ground.
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.
This is one of my favorite comments ever, I’ve been saying this for years, the strong dollar economics was the best deal ever for us, and we are throwing it away. The rest of the world will be fine without us.
Not if it’s digital.
“What Fox just reported is illegal.”
– DJTWhat’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.
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.
Sounds like Elon is eliminating competition to his propaganda machine.
Is it crazy when they can just use companies like TruthSocial and Twitter?
Get rid of all branches and implement your own with your own swamp creatures.
I see your point, and assume the logic (if there is any) is: Why bother when Fox and Newsmax do it for profit?
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 approved of Trump’s performance and 49 percent disapproved.
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.
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.
You are still showing your lack of understanding of statistics. It requires a large sample size, yes, and the larger it is the more accurate it will be, but the proportion of the total population doesn’t have to be large at all. Margin of error and confidence are both controlled by the absolute sample size (assuming a random sampling). Here’s a link that covers the basics. Most serious polls use a sample size of about 5000. Now, 1000 isn’t terrible, but it isn’t good, but not because it’s such a tiny fraction of the population.
As for the methodology, which is also critical, I don’t know what method for phone surveys is considered adequate, and it is well known that phone surveys are becoming less relevant even if they are more accurate than polls where the respondents are self-selected.
I would assume most people don’t pay particular attention until they are directly affected. Apathy across the West is a major problem.
Jokes on them, he’s not doing this for the American people.
“I already got your votes. Fuck you.”
— Donald
You know what would be dope tho is if he were underwater in a swasticar.
I wonder why he is doing just like he said he would.
