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.”
When the UK last had a moron setting everything on fire she was outlasted by a lettuce.
Americans need to up their game.
Sadly there isn’t any equivalent to a non-confidence vote in US politics.
Sadly the US system is not designed to oust the president that easily. It would be a first if Trump was removed from office due to the impeachment process, removing the prime minister is a much lower bar.
You suggesting a cabbage?
How strong is your cabbage game?
He’s not underwater where it really matters, physically.
Right? Now do his head.
Approval ratings only impact elections
Until suddenly they impact everything.
Yes and no. It’s really hard to boast about your “mandate” when a large and still increasing portion of the population publicly hates your guts and thinks you’re doing a shit job. It’s not enough by itself to meaningfully hurt him, but it does make him look bad and undermine his leadership. It is bad for his image, and image is an important component of power.
It’s also bad for his ego and could potentially lead him to behave even more erratically in ways that are ultimately self-destructive. Narcissists famously don’t do well in the face of being perceived negatively. The worse his ratings get, the more humiliating it will be for him. It is important to hurt their morale at every opportunity, even if it’s not nearly enough to stop them on its own. Demoralized, defensive MAGA will always be a weaker foe than energized, popular MAGA.
Idk I’ve always noticed he doesn’t give AF about reality. He just lies and if called out he just doubles down on his lies until he breaks the electorate and he gets elected again.
I used the same strategy to hide that I was smoking weed to my parents.
He’s a narcissist. Trust me, he cares. Yes, he will lie. He will lie to the world and to himself. Because he literally CANNOT cope. But that isn’t going to serve him. The more he lies to the world, the more deranged he will look, and the more he lies to himself, the more he will crash out mentally and self-destruct.
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.
I think if you give it a month or two that number is going to change significantly. Most people haven’t really started to feel/see the consequences of his actions yet, and there is a bit of a lag.
I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?
The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn’t even show up for the election, they probably won’t show up for these.
Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that ‘47% approval’ translates to ‘47% of all Americans approve’?
It’s not actually a two answer only poll, you can view it HERE
In Quinnipiac University’s February 19 poll, 45 percent approved, while 49 percent disapproved and 6 percent did not offer an opinion and in Quinnipiac University’s January 29 poll, 46 percent approved, while 43 percent disapproved and 11 percent did not offer an opinion.
In today’s [March 13th] poll, Republicans (89 - 9 percent) approve of the job Trump is doing, while Democrats (96 - 2 percent) and independents (58 - 36 percent) disapprove.
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Placing him at a roughly 30% approval overall, innit?
Only if you assume equal representation of each group in the poll. 42% approve 6% no comment 53% dissapprove total with a very clear partisan split.
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
I don’t see him starting a war without complete control of the military. While they are working on it, firing leadership, changing rules and policies, the military still has the power to say no to Trump, which is bad TV. Trump is also a bitch as seen by the wishy-washy way he approaches tariffs, he hates actual action because he just wants good TV and bad policy makes for bad TV.
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
with his fucking cottage cheese brain he’ll demand plans for invading Panama and then immediately invade Brazil
Can we stop bullying transpeole now and admit maybe it actually IS Trump that’s the problem?
Ppl always need someone to blame for complicated problems or to down play true issues. If it’s not Trans it’ll be lgbtq, black ppl, Muslims, Latinos, Natives, etc.
‘He’s underwater on everything’ - except the one way that matters the most.
I’m pretty sure his approval rating in Kremlin is soaring.
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.
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
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 never understand how investigations weren’t launched over that shit
Maybe they’re concerned they’d find out the information she killed herself over.
Corruption…?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t know, I think what will just end up happening is china’s “dollar” taking its place instead
We’re just going to end up exchanging one superpower for another, it’s not going to fundamentally fix the problem. For that you’d need to do it more sensibly
I won’t say that won’t happen. But interestingly, China isn’t trying to make their currency a hegemonic currency. Instead, they’ve been promoting currency swaps that use both local currencies. And it’s picking up speed. All the BRICS nations are making currency swap agreements amongst each other. As I said in another post, I have no idea if this can go global. But it’s something I hope we can all work towards. Any currency hegemon is bad for the world. The strangest thing is it appears China agrees, regardless of what western propaganda says about China.
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.
He stopped penny minting. I’m sure he accidentally did one other good thing for the adage to be true
He destroyed the American Empire too, but that feels like giving Hitler credit for shooting Hitler.
But he did it in the worst possible way, with massive avoidable collateral damage.
No he didn’t. The worst possible way would be to drag the rest of the western world into fascism with him, which he could’ve done if he’d just spaced out his horrible actions and used a bit of bureaucrat-speak to hide the full impact of what he was doing. Instead, the rest of the democratic world is forming a new economic and diplomatic structure that leaves America out.
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.
There’s a difference between being a populist and actually representing your constituents, which is after all the job they’re paid to do.
Not if it’s digital.
How long before Trump wants her fired?
For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.
“What Fox just reported is illegal.”
– DJTSoon to be former Fox news host Jessica Taylov.
Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”
SOROOOOOOOOS!
shakes tiny fist
What’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.
he’s very dumb
Genuinely, though, it is hard to gauge at times which actions are:
- Genuinely malicious plans to increase his and his cronies’ wealth
- Confused, because Elon or Trump were in a specific mood that particular day
- Some actor behind the scenes manipulating them by taking advantage of their impulsivity
- The genuine incompetence of the newly appointed loyalists (or the algorithms/AI they use) within the new deep state
- Genuinely ideologically motivated stupidity, from Libertarians that drank their own cool-aid within the administration.
It is genuine chaos. But overall, the effects are pretty disastrous, no matter what exactly causes which actions.
Chaos is a ladder for oligarchs.
It’s narcissism all the way down. His sole motivation for anything is ego stroking. He lacks self esteem and the ability to value himself. His self worth only exists in validation from others.
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.
LOL Russian agent, look at the conspiracy guy, don’t fall off the flat earth
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?
