Trump’s disapproval rating hits record high, new poll shows
Disapproval rose to 62%, the worst of his two terms in office, amid economic issues since launching his war against Iran
Six months out from November’s midterm US elections, Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has reached 62% – the worst of his two terms in office – according to a new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
The US president received his worst ratings on the cost of living and other economic issues since launching his deeply unpopular war against Iran in February, which has plunged the global economy into an oil crisis and sent gas prices rocketing to a four-year high.
Trump achieved majority disapproval on his management of every issue measured, including Americans disapproved of his handling of that war by 66% to 32%, while a staggering 76% disapproved and only 23% approved of his handling of the cost of living. Two-thirds of Americans now feel the country is headed in the wrong direction.
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As much as I like seeing the high disapproval numbers, I find it a bit disappointing how many people will turn on their president over gas prices. I mean, after all the insane shit this guy has pulled, all it takes is a buck or two more per gallon to turn them. We aren't even in a shortage situation. No lines. Nothing.
I think it’s more a case that the people for whom gas prices are A Thing have now joined all the people who already disapproved of him… so another 5% of the population, who believed his lies right up until there was no denying that his actions were hitting their pocketbooks.
But that's the point: the suffering of others, which they could prevent simply by voting, wasn't enough for them. It wasn't until it hit them in the pocketbook this way (after reduced healthcare and still-unmaintained infrastructure and tariff tax and, and, and) in addition to all this other ways it preventably hit them in the pocketbook already, that now they jump on board the harm-reduction bandwagon.
There are simply no more arguments for supporting this man that make sense logically; and there haven't been for 10 years (before his first narcissist orade if fools), of course, but the apology now needs to be a little more sincere.
It has immediate impact and they cannot lie about the giant numbers in their face while they pump. Even the dumbest of people can grasp this.
This.
ICE kidnapping people doesn't affect them because they are special. They are in the in-group.
Why can't they grasp it when he boldly lies to our faces?
Honestly? I think for most they're too far deep in the right-wing Matrix to be able to tell truth from lies. Many people don't fully understand just how these people live in a completely alternate reality than the likes of you and me.
Yeah I get that. I just don't understand how gas prices are able to permeate that veil, while disappearing healthcare, people being abducted off the street and shoved into concentration camps, international pedophile rings, intimidation of the media, bribery, and white people being cut down in the street without consequences, etc. etc. remains firmly sequestered.
All of those examples are things they know about through the press and social media. So either they chose not to believe the lying press, or they get the content moderated in such a way that it all sounds acceptable. The latter of course takes having sick values, but not as sick as you would expect based on the info you get about what is happening in the world.
As someone else put it: "I'm fine with rapes and pedophilia, but I draw the line at higher gas prices!"
What does that say about America? I think it's past saving to be honest.
Probably that the rural, least populated parts of the country hold a disproportionate amount of political power and this is a consequence of that. Well that and the deliberate defunding/deconstruction of our education system.
Nothing the rest of the world didn't already know.
Honestly it's the same here in France, and I suspect everywhere... Most people only give a shit about criminal/immoral behavior from the elite if it confirms their political bias. If it's their guy they'll wring their hands for a couple of seconds and go "oh well, what can you do? They're all the same anyways", or even outright defend them.
I fear you're right. It'd be foolish to think America has a monopoly on short-sighted, selfish dimwits. Rassemblement National and AfD polls bear sad testimony to this.
You're saving to be honest, but I'm saving for the invasion. We are not the same.
Yea. There are by now hundreds of valid reasons to kick that guy, and gas prices are the deal breaker?
Many Americans just seem to hate all other humans
I would say it's more pathological indifference, likely spawned from the idolization of "rugged individualism". I'm often reminded of a nearly decade-old article titled "I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People".
It's good to take a step back every once and a while, and remember that at one time we reported approval ratings...
There's a psychological effect coming into play here.
We need to go back to:
It hits 100% different
AKA 38% total idiots.
And if those idiots realized they were in the minority, they might feel shame...
They're dumb enough to see 62%, "trump" and that the number is higher and everything seems great.
They see a shrinking number that's how many agree with them...
Even they start to rethink their position, if nothing else out of cowardice.
We need to play to the audience, and in this context theyre all fucking idiots.
As in: if those people could read, they would be very upset?
As in: you've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers, these are people of the land, the common clay of the new west. You know...
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Partisan diehards simply know where their bread is buttered
Is it as simple as 38% approve and 62% disapprove? Many polls have something in the middle for “neither approve nor disapprove.”
In those polls, the disapproval rate can move without anything changing in the approval rating, and that’s worth reporting.
Just saying It isn’t entirely either/or.
Probably not.
But when dealing with stats is best to err on the side of caution.
At most 38% approve, if the real number is lower and some maga tries to argue, it just turns out that it's even worse than I said.
If it was really 39% then that becomes the focus and there's no convincing.
So when in doubt, give the extra to the side you're trying to convince especially when the split is big enough a few points either way don't even matter.
It stops them from arguing over minute details and forces the larger discussion.
Wasn't doing it intentionally, it's out of habit
I do something similar. I'll often misstate numbers in the same way hoping that they will look it up to try and prove me wrong and succeed. They get a little dopamine rush when they see I'm wrong and that makes it easier for them to understand that if I had been accurate, it would paint an even grimmer picture.
It's not really that.
What I was talking about is I've amassed a huge amount of random knowledge. If I said:
Someone is gonna chirp up that in election year ____ there was only 28% non-voters so all that literal scientific research that happened is a moot point.
Shit like that gets tiresome. Especially when everyone assumes the only way someone would know stuff like that, is if they looked it up 2 seconds ago and have a handy source.
37% per the article
How many years have I been reading this headline? Too damn many
No no. It went from 60% to 62% This is a historic event. Only 38% of Americans like his policies now. Only 38% would take up arms to defend him. Only 38% would kill you to protect the files. Only 38%
38% is still a lot of people that's more than 1/3.
According to Google, 38% is roughly the amount of people who have the most common of the four blood types
Which means nothing because Magatards would vote for him anyway and Libs would just bravely stay home... again
Which again means nothing... the military is still doing the pedophile's bidding regardless
Ok, now I am just depressed
And it's somehow the lowest it's ever been every single time, with the exact same numbers. It's unreal.
Wow, 25% of independents still approve of him. Insane.
I've worked in market research. It's just like the Internet. Bad faith respondents are very common and very eager and they all give exactly the same inane responses.
Maybe their brains are independent from their bodies?
Still way too high
Keep in mind that a lot of Americans are really stupid.
Americans are groomed to be stupid by the corporate media.
Most of who is left are the ones who are either rich enough that they want to keep gorging at the corruption trough, or are so stupid they don't know how to turn way.
We'll never do anything about that first group, except punish them harshly when we get the chance, but the stupid ones can be influenced by others who were like them and finally saw the light, and those people are starting to speak out. Carlson has been very noisy, and MTG just posted that TDS now stands for Trump Disappointment Syndrome. MAGAs are very susceptible to that sort of stupid propaganda, and that's the kind of thing that could spread widely among MAGA dopes, like the original meaning did.
It will take time, but we still have 2 1/2 years to work on them. It's unlikely that their love for Trump will increase. It's not like he's suddenly going become competent. At this point, just sowing doubt is a win. As more and more shit piles on top of them, those doubts will flourish, and eventually take over.
Word salad headline. Lol. Can’t just call it straight.
It doesn't matter. If he stays in power past Jan 2029, he won't need an election (or any popularity polls) to do it.
It's obvious that disapproval ratings mean nothing yet the media machine constantly spits that up. I guess it makes all of us anti-trump folk feel a bit better while the brazen pedophile stumbles ever upward.
It does. It reflects the general population's approval and therefore affects the decision making of politicians looking for reelection.
I totally agree, if what is being reported is true. Is it a small group of spin doctors or the general population?
I don't know how it is done on the US, but it'll always be samples, of course. Which does not make it a useless result at all, statistics on a population sample can be true for the full population if the sample is well done.
Typically polling agencies will not pick people at random to answer their questions. There is always criteria they respect to have a valid sample. It is of course not an exact science, but done properly and transparently (that's where I don't know if the US does it right) it is very powerful.
Until he is dragged out of office, doesn't matter
Kicking and screaming, on television
Been hearing weekly this for 10 years. Shut the fuck up
I am here to promise you that conservatives will vote for the next one to come along.
And it's not like conservative candidates are going to get any better from here on out.
They're not the brightest, which we all know tends to correlate strongly with conservatism. I'll always remember the idiots in 2004 who voted for a second W. Bush term because "he made this mess, now he needs to clean it up".
That's like hiring an incompetent employee who messed up a mission-critical project and not only took no accountability, but verifiably lied about their actions, yet you continue employing them to finish the project.
Yep, it's very black pilling to think about sometimes, especially with the Democrats moving farther and farther right along with them...
I'm not convinced Americans will get to vote for president again
There's no way he's getting reelected at this rate
He's dying. I'll be surprised if he makes it another 12 months.
None of this matters because at the end of the day the American electorate is just too stupid for any of this to count for anything.
They're always going to vote for the next hard R that will promise them that they'll make it all White and now you'll probably won't have a choice but to vote for the hard R in many states going forward.
hard r?
In reference to the "N word," a slur directed at Black people (rhymes with "bigger"). Rappers tend to use a version that ends on a kind of soft vowel sound ("-ah" or -"uh") whereas racists are known to use the "hard r" ending. Republicans tend to be racist and also are depicted on TV as having an R next to their name to denote party affiliation. So this user is playing on the double meaning here, "hard R" being in reference to Republican racism.
What do you think the bunker is for. Dude is not leaving alive. Let's hope he follows Hitlers lead and eats a bullet soon.
Palantir data center, like the $350 M one they sold Israel
I disapprove so much it should count multiple times.
We need to regulate all forms of media. Brain broken right wing wealth hoarders are beaming their bizarre worldview into the minds of grandma and grandpa.
I live in the deep south and the people down here will cut their own foot off for the president if he asked them to. They don't know how to think for themselves and their whole identity is racism and hate. You cannot ask them any political questions without them getting angry, because you are questioning their intelligence in their mind.
So the disapproval rating will stay around this level because you cannot save any of those cult members.
There should be a rule that when approval ratings go below 50%, there's a new election
There should be a rule that when president rapes children, there's a new election.
Or when it is proven he raped children in the past. He should not only be removed from office, he should be in prison
Hell, he was proved to have raped an adult woman in a valid court of law! THAT should be grounds for both removal from office and prison. We shouldn't have to lower the bar to even more monstrous deeds. A proven rapist should not be in office. Full stop.
This is one of many reasons, he shouldn't have been allowed to run for office in the first place. The insurection is another one
Don't forget trying to coerce state election officials of trying to "find" more votes aka commit election fraud.
Or a judge that he himself appointed can't "indefinitely postpone" sentencing when he's convicted of 34 felonies. Or that someone convicted of 34 felonies directly resulting from election interference can't even fucking run. But here we are…
As if manipulating political state was not easy enough already.
Incredibly low, what an achievement.
Yeah, he has the BEST disapproval, biggest, strongest, most beautiful disapproval.
Ugh. I dislike titles like this.
Lowest high? Highest low?
Just say “record lowest” or “lowest ever recorded” or something.
The amount of people angry at Trump is higher than ever before
I'm all for bullying papers over shitty headlines but, honestly, this isn't one of them.
Posted a lie. Reported.