Summary
Trump’s approval rating has turned negative in a new YouGov/Economist poll, with 50% disapproving versus 45% approving of his job performance.
This marks the first underwater rating in a month, following similar trends in other polls. Political experts attribute the decline to backlash against tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and DOGE’s federal worker firings.
While Trump maintains stronger approval on national security (51%) and immigration (50%), he scores lowest on inflation (42%).
The poll shows a particularly sharp drop among independents, shifting from -5 to -17 approval margin.
National security remained Trump’s strongest issue, with 51 percent of respondents saying they approve of his handling of the matter.
wtf. the dude is a russian asset . the only reason he ever says the words national security is to remove rights from u.s. citizens.
gross
Propaganda is OP, really can’t nerfed hard enough to change the meta
The sad thing is the main factor in a successful propaganda campaign seems to be volume. So those that have an ability to broadcast a message to the highest number of people with the most consistency usually get their way.
It’s almost like billionaires buy media outlets for a reason
Conspiracy moment. I believe this is why tiktok is constantly under attack. It’s a hugely popular platform and it’s algorithm isn’t tuned to keep us from watching people complain about actual problems. They make a huge argument about the rise in protests about Gaza being a Chinese attack strategy, but in person I’ve yet to meet one human being that thinks the Gaza situation is OK. They were just mad that we had a loophole out of the propaganda tunnel.
This is nothing. Approval ratings below 40% are extremely common in modern presidencies. Trump himself left office the first time with an approval rating of 34% and an average of 41%.
If Macron got 40% approval rating there would be a river of champagne flowing down the Champs Elysées.
Seriously, 40 seems like a TERRIBLE approval rating. Then again, US politics really is something else
How the fuck is he still close to 50%? Do those idiots have to go broke and hungry for not getting their social security, and have their mum die due to no medicaid?
Caveat: I’m not a statistician, but my job requires that I interpret large pools of raw data to interpolate outcomes for even larger systems. Think using 30 respondents and a week of observation/collection to represent 2500-10,000 respondents over the course of a year. The way I collect, analyze, interpret, and present my data is scrutinized heavily from every angle (as it should be) but still very susceptible to biases. Fortunately, I’m super autistic and it’s basically impossible for me to lie so I’m considered really good at what I do.
These surveys are typically done via methods that are prone to significant statistical errors. For the most part they use phone calls, Facebook ads, emails that most people under the age of 65 just delete (or never even see because it’s caught by spam filters). This, combined with the fact that the type of people who will reply to these sort of questionaires are always more right-leaning skews the data even further.
If someone approached you on the street asking you to take a survey, about Pervert Hoover what would you do? Uncle Jerry, who’s known for providing his unsolicited opinions about librulz and the gays, and Aunt Elaine who doesn’t want to get backhanded at home so she just stands there usually count as two respondents.
That’s not even touching the bias almost always introduced by the question and answer formats. “Do you agree with the President’s policy of deporting people with legal residency status due to excercising their First Amendment Rights? (Y/N)” is a totally different outcome to “Do you agree with the President’s national security policies? (Y/N)”
These articles are always written to imply they’ve surveyed everyone in the country, done the math to adjust for selection bias, and written the survey questions to be fair, but time and time again that’s proven to be untrue, or at least inaccurate. The interesting (and honestly the only good news we hear anymore) is that even with all of the cards literally and figuratively stacked in the orange skidmark’s favor, he’s only getting as positive an outcome as he is.
And there’s also the need for clicks and ad revenue.
TL; DR: these things are bullshit and always produce wildly inaccurate results skewed in favor of the dumbest outcomes.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the spectrum:
darkly hilarious that all they had to do was put a red bar behind the “APPROVE” and it tricked the three remaining brain cells of their viewers.
In Tropico, this normally ends badly for El Presidente.
I just don’t hold elections. Never been an issue for me
Penultimo on the other hand
Yeah I’m not convinced any politician cares about approval ratings anymore because they might be going this route
We’re about to get an Executive Order deleting all polling organizations except the ones that align with President Trump’s Executive Orders, aren’t we?
he doesn’t care about court orders, why doesn’t anyone think he cares about someone’s approval
Lol 45% approval, he really is the king of usa.
My FIL and MIL love him! And I do mean they worship him. They’re extremely satisfied with recent events because he’s hurting Americans which includes the other Americans they don’t like.
How did pretty much an entire generation that had it easier than us get so fucking hateful!? They sit in their owned houses pissed off that brown and gay people exist and are just trying to survive like all of us…
Polls don’t matter to a party of fucking fascists.
I learned 51% on respondents to that poll don’t know shit about national security, so I’d say that marks all the other numbers outside of approval rating (b/c that just measures vibes) as suspect.
Wake me up when it’s at 20% or so, 45 is waaaaaay too much for the shit show he’s delivering.
