As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new polls released this week shows him and his policies at remarkably high, and in some cases record, levels of unpopularity. Across nearly every major measure, Trump is generating more backlash than loyalty, deepening distrust as his personal standing continues to slide.
A new CNN poll released Friday found that nearly 60 percent of Americans describe Trump’s first year back in office as a failure. Trump is faltering even on issues that have historically been his strongest, like the economy. A majority of Americans (55 percent) say he has made the economy worse, while just 36 percent believe he has focused on the right priorities—a nine-point drop since the start of his term. CNN also found Trump’s overall job approval rating languishing at 39 percent, down from 48 percent last February. A clear majority say he has gone too far in using presidential power. You can read the full results here.
CNN’s numbers are not outliers. A new Associated Press–NORC poll, released on Thursday, shows erosion even within Trump’s own party. Only 16 percent of Republicans say the president has helped “a lot” with the cost of living, down sharply from 49 percent in April 2024. Trump’s approval on immigration—still one of his strongest issues among Republicans—has slipped as well, falling from 88 percent in March to 76 percent in the latest survey. Overall, just 38 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, a marked decline, while 61 percent disapprove. Across the poll, voters say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities, abusing power, hurting the economy, and leaving the country worse off. The survey marked his lowest approval ratings on the economy reported by AP pollsters during both stints in the White House.
Other surveys this week echoed the same themes. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Trump deeply underwater overall, with 58 percent disapproving of his job performance and just 36 percent approving of his handling of the economy. The poll also found overwhelming opposition to Trump’s foreign adventurism, with 71 percent saying the use of military force against Greenland would be a bad idea. Meanwhile, a Marist poll released Friday found that 56 percent of Americans oppose the United States taking military action in Venezuela.
Wow. A lot of people still can’t admit they were wrong.
Of all the things that start chipping away at his base, immigration was my last choice. I though convicted felon/rapist would do it.
They will still vote for him.
You think the election will mean anything.
How very innocent.
They’re trying to make it so, but fashists are pathetic little incompetent loosers, so it’s possible that they will fail. Slim chance, but it’s the last america has
Given the unprecedented abuse of power and overwhelming evidence of corruption, the fact he still has that much approval only serves to show how deeply flawed is the distribution of power in the US.
Big corpo lobbying paved the way for this brand of extremist cronyism that provides for the biggest players willing to grease the president directly, even circumventing the legislative bodies.
I bet relatively smaller players are as flabbergasted as reasonable people and left-wing people. But this is what happens after decades of big shareholders being able to shape politics.
I’d like this poll to be representative. But these poll aggregators tell a different story:
He doesn’t give a fuck. He already has the power he wants and he’ll never give it away. He only leaves that office in a body-bag.
Yep. I foresee cancelling of the midterms, then seeing the fallout from that.
If they are allowed to ride that out (which in today’s lazy and complacent ways, they will) then that’s it. Dictator for life.After that they’ve got time to get one of its idiot children ready to step up when the obese child rapist finally dies (and Satan refuses the orange thing entry to hell for being too disgusting.)
Yep. I foresee cancelling of the midterms, then seeing the fallout from that.
I foresee elections happening, but ice kidnapping people waiting in line to vote.
Very possible.
Scaring people from voting in person is deffo a dictator-ish thing to do.
I can’t see it making a difference, they will still vote red no matter who.
Biden won in 2020 because of this. It does make a difference.
Republican/MAGA voters never achieve introspection. They’ll never connect the dots on their unwarranted loyalty to a party that despises their existence and their own suffering. They’ll always fall for the next scapegoat. Hatred triggers their lizard brain to override reason. All of this is to say they’ll fall for the next cult of personality that comes along and we’ll never make lasting progress.
From what I remember Biden won with a small margin in 2020 (I remember messaging my American friend about this before the votes were fully tallied).
Trump is a symptom, the cause is American society (not only the far right, much of the centre-right voting public too).
With these dems nazis overthrowing representative government in all but name is an inevitability.
With popular reform we could take it from them.
I’m sure whatever lovely Democrats get in will fix all this stuff. They totally won’t take advantage of the power this regime has granted to the few, when they are the few.
Some people will, but not enough for him to hold power. Trump wasn’t elected by MAGA, he was elected by the people who couldn’t afford to live, but were being told by the Democratic party that everything was fine. Including more gen z than we’d like to admit.
Now trump is trying the same strategy, and he knows that come midterms, all those same constituents are going to vote against him. That’s why he’s been pulling out all the stops to prop up the economy for another year. He doesn’t care if it means 15%+ inflation, as long as people don’t blame him for a tanked stock market.
Better red than dead, living in poverty, in a police state, with no rights, and no checks and balances
Schumer is alllllmost ready to write that strongly worded letter. He can practically taste the envelope glue.
I hope the door hits him in the ass as he is leaving.
Jesus, I think I hate Schumer more than Trump at this point. He is such is sniveling coward. He reminds me of Wormtail in Harry Potter.
Story of his life. Everyone hates him because he lies, steals, sues people into oblivion and threatens them. Somehow that’s helped him fail upwards. Lather, rinse, repeat, constantly moving onto bigger targets. He will never, ever stop until his body quits, and he always has hordes of enablers to ensure he extracts what he wants from his next victim. He is evil incarnate.
He doesn’t care. He doesn’t need anyone’s votes anymore.
I’m betting he’ll be dead from a heart issue or stroke before any of it matters and we’ll be dealing with the next (possibly worse) Nazi scumbag that wheels in to replace him
A quarter of your country is Nazis scumbags. Start dealing with them now.
And what would you suggest be done? Because the quickest and easiest way I have thought of is to cripple or dissolve the various conservative propaganda networks be them radio, TV, or online and to be dissolve Facebook and twitter before beating Musk and Zuck to death with 2x4s while calling them slurs.
A few folks in Minneapolis did a pretty good job of handling a Nazi yesterday. Start there.
That’s not handling the problem though, not in any meaningful way at least. Sure we could shove them underground again but the problem is societal not individual, it’s a political cult built up for about 50 years minimum that has to be uprooted to solve.
Not saying that doesn’t help but at best it gets them to move somewhere else.
We could murder them all and also all their children who would surely later on rise up to kill all of our children…but y’know, genocide sounds like a lot of work…and is also wrong…that too.
So…yeah, other than that I’m out of ideas cuz I’m an uncreative American lacking critical thinking skills due to a poor education, but I’ve got all these guns lying around…ah jeez…what to do.
I hope that translates into something meaningful happening in the midterms. Of course, even if the election does end up being a big rebuke of Trump, that will hardly bring an end to the conflict. We’re probably only just getting started.
Midterms are going in a cardboard box with the Epstein files, stored in a disused lavatory, in the basement of mar-a-lago behind a door with a sign that says beware of the leopard.
I like your optimism. Midterms. LOL. I hope your right.
Even Russia holds elections. We just have to make sure it’s fair and people are held accountable.
Oh you call those elections huh?
Those are laudable goals, but the appetite for democratic reforms currently seems rather anaemic in the US.
Sure.
Who cares? Unless republican voters suddenly discover morality Trump doesn’t matter. Disapproval of a single person like Trump is immune to the republican voter block. Conservative Americans ensure the worst of the world… you won’t see meaningful change until you address that group.
Nazi party in America means America is a Nazi country. Get specific with the cure.
Yup, having this demented old bitch in charge has given us chances to stop the fascists, time and again.
We have not taken tnem because we chose the enemy of the working class to run the opposition, still playing good cop to republican bad as if r’s were not openly playing hitler after cryptically playing for a half century.
2020 was the big chance, squandered, we got shouted down for popular reform, freeing captured agencies, everything. D’s threw the election, worst performance yet, and they are still in charge, passing the buck, blaming us for demanding a new deal and popular reform. If only we believed harder.
We could stop them in 2028, perhaps our last chance before they are fixed in completely as states fall like dominoes to get permafixed by the party under their new, in all liklihood more capable, nazi leadership. Mean and nazi being prerequisites, along with total submission to Israel somehow being the most important thing. But not with these democrats, they learned nothing.
Where are all the white true populists? Killed in the cradle. Any ambition stamped out by dems as well, no doubt aided by conservatives to ensure beatable competition. We need wholesale populist candidates yet we follow the ivy league dem leadership into the abyss. Leadership soon to face false vote rigging indictments before the 28 election I bet.
They have been saying that since 2016.
Oh? Are a bunch of racist boomers dying? I genuinely hope so…
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