President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have dropped to their lowest level since the start of his second term.
According to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll released on Sunday, only 37 percent of adults approve of Trump’s work as president. Meanwhile, 63 percent disapprove, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly. Some of that strong disapproval comes from Trump’s handling of skyrocketing costs for most households: Among the over 32,000 American adults that NBC News surveyed over two weeks in March and April, 52 percent said they “strongly disapprove” and 16 percent “somewhat disapprove” of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living.
That’s a large disapproval jump compared to a few months ago. When NBC News asked the same inflation question to Americans last August, 45 percent noted they “strongly disapprove”—seven percentage points lower than this month’s results.
The NBC results also suggest that Trump is beginning to lose his voter base. The number of Republicans who approve of Trump’s performance on inflation sank by 10 percentage points (from 83 to 73 percent) since last summer. The poll also found that overall support for the president dropped by four percentage points (from 87 to 83 percent) among his Republican support in just two months.
Still 37% yanks approve of him… still way too high for a lying child rapist
Remember that, even at the point at which Nixon got on a helicopter and flew off in utter disgrace and shame, he still had people supporting him. 24%. Nearly 1 in 4.
And boy, those people were pissed that he got what they thought was a raw deal by the “liberal media”. Any conservative adults in my life would go on about it, even as Ronnie Raygun’s crew was wrecking America, they still had a burning resentment about it. If I recall, people like Ann Coulter spent some time writing about it.
Faux “News” and hate radio were born out of that seething hatred for the truth.
No matter how many articles I see about Trump’s popularity tanking, it’s ALWAYS 37% of the population that supports him. I wonder what’s up with that. Like why that exact number? Does about a 3rd of the population have brain damage or something?
Because a third of the US was trained from birth to think that the Dems are literal baby eating Satan worshipers.
They sit there and think “at least trump doesn’t want to kill the babies, just fuck them”
And yet every fucking headline says it’s dropped off a cliff. And yet every single time I know it’ll be somewhere around 37%.
And that’s why America is fucked. You don’t need to convince 50% of Americans to be reasonable, you need to convince 80% of decent Americans to be reasonable. There’s literally only 20% margin of error in the people not in a cult to keep the place running.
I think the only way to get out of this mess is to let the whole thing fall apart. I can’t even convince my own sisters to get off of fucking Twitter and Facebook, and they know how bad it is! There’s no way any critical mass of people are going to give enough of a shit to fight unless we’re all homeless. It really feels that way.
Unfortunately the religious population of the US has been turning a blind eye to lying child rapists for generations, I doubt they will stop anytime soon.
Don’t worry, at the rate American power is declining in a few years it won’t matter what the yanks think.
In the meantime let’s drain as much capital from the place we can.
Elbows up.
It could drop to 0 and he’d still be POTUS
While that’s true, it’s worth remembering that congresspeople and senators see these results, and take them into account when deciding whether to support or oppose trump. If his approval rating gets low enough, other politicians will start seeing it as detrimental to their careers to support him. If just a few republican senators or congressmen start actively opposing him, his power will be significantly reduced. If it goes low enough they might even decide that it’s in their own best interest to either impeach or 25th him. The last two are a loong shot, but the point stands that terrible approval ratings can actually have tangible impact on things.