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.
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.
I disapprove so much it should count multiple times.
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.
And it’s somehow the lowest it’s ever been every single time, with the exact same numbers. It’s unreal.
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.
I’m not convinced Americans will get to vote for president again
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…
No one has ever seen (disapproval) ratings this high!
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
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.
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.
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.
What does that say about America?
Nothing the rest of the world didn’t already know.
saving to be honest.
You’re saving to be honest, but I’m saving for the invasion. We are not the same.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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:
38% approve of trump
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…
Could you please put a fat warning sign before YT links?
No. It’s the user’s responsibility to look at hyperlinks before clicking them and determine whether it’s safe to do so.
Sadly, the client does not provide a link preview.
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:
With 15 minutes of training a human can identify party affiliation with 70% accuracy which lines up with 30% non-voters to a 100% success rate
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
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?
Word salad headline. Lol. Can’t just call it straight.
Until he is dragged out of office, doesn’t matter
Kicking and screaming, on television
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.
Been hearing weekly this for 10 years. Shut the fuck up
