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Trump approval falls to 43%, lowest since returning to office, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

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Summary

Trump's approval rating dropped to 43%, the lowest since his January return to office, amid backlash over new tariffs and a mishandled military strike disclosure.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll found only 37% approve of his economic leadership, and 34% support his foreign policy.

A majority view his tariff hikes as harmful, while 74% criticized the use of Signal to discuss a Yemen operation.

The poll, conducted online with 1,486 adults, showed bipartisan concern and a 2-point decline since March, reflecting rising unease over Trump's policies.

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40% of people are in a cult, got it.
- Something like 7% to 13% of poll responses are just trolling anyway (look up Lizardman’s Constant) and can’t be trusted. Assuming that ALL the trolls are voting to help Trump, we can see how many people unironically thinking that Trump it’s good.
  So a minimum of 43% - 13% = 30% of people are legitimate cultists.
  
  30% of people are legitimate cultists.
- I think the male members of them would seriously cut their nuts off, get some black sneakers and chug some poison if donvict told them they need to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet.
  
  most of them would say he was joking. because they're a professionally fuckface whisperer.
  the ones that did as asked would get vaguely appreciation of their loyalty from trump himself.
That is disturbingly high.
43% of responders are idiots
- Bush II had an approval rating around 25-30% at the end of his time in office. Consider that the bottom for how many people will still support a complete and obvious failure.
  
  IIRC, that was about the same numbers as when Nixon got on the helicopter to fly away after resigning in disgrace. There are qons that treat their party the same way they treat their favorite sportsball team.
  It doesn't matter what "their guy" does, they are with them. Seriously, donvict could be caught throwing lit puppies into traffic and he'd probably still have 25-30% with him. That's probably about the only truth donvict ever said when he talked about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
I don't think we can trust the polls since there's no free press in USA anymore so as far as I'm concerned it's US government regime propaganda.
- Especially polls with less than 1,500 people surveyed
  
  1500 is enough if the survey is properly randomized. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s true. You only need about 1000. Math is wild.
  https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/guides/statistical-significance/determine-sample-size/
  
  …conducted online.
  How many of those people are American? Or people, for that matter?
- The free press is alive and well, for now at least. Don't be hyperbolic.
Anyone else concerned that a felon rapist who is crashing our economy still has a 43% approval rating?
- That 43% is wannabe felon rapists who wish they could crash the economy.
About 44% too high.
USA has a lot more crazy people than I ever suspected.
This lack of realization when faced with reality is way beyond any worst case scenario I ever imagined.
I thought most of the people who voted for him, simply didn't believe the warnings. Turns out they actually support that shit?!?!
- You can thank the poisons of religion. They care about dying and going off elsewhere than EVERYTHING on Earth.
  
  That's why I'm not just an atheist but an anti-theist.
  
  I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush's ~~no child left behind~~ Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.
- They never face reality, we allowed malignant propoganda to spread and take over a huge chunk of our media presenting a false reality to many who don't have the media (or functional) literacy to understand when they're being manipulated. Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level - they can read the words, but the full nuanced understanding is beyond them.
  
  Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level
  Is this factual? Because if that's true, that's extremely bad, even shameful for a rich country like USA.
So many unreachable people in this country. 43%? How the fuck could it be above 10% is the mystery.
And 37% still approve of his "economic leadership"? WTAF?
- And 37% still approve of his “economic leadership”?
  "You know, I saw MadMax back in the day and it seemed like the lads were having a lot of fun."
  Edit: Since this is not a meme sub: You know as well as I do that this many people genuinely believe Trump when he says this is somehow good for the US. The quote I've commonly read in connection with this is "finally the other countries will be paying their fair share!".
- They do not understand and the understanding they have has been formed with propaganda for decades.
  American politics has been so far from it's idealistic roots in democracy and supplanted by the wealthy for decades if not a century or longer. Allowing businesses to fund campaigns openly in the 70s has to have been a big tipping point and why we have allowed it is bizarre to me. We have basically no media today that isn't highly politicized one way or another. Bezos has altered his media to fit whatever party furthers it's business goals... like most oligarch owned businesses following suit whether or not they are media.
  I don't think things can be changed anymore though. I think pandora's box opened at some point and it can't be shut again without tearing civilization down.
Ugh, I just realized this fuck wit will be president of our ruins for the 250th anniversary.
- Happy thoughts my dude.
  Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)
  
  That’s really nice. I wish I could write a letter to thank Japan. Thank you for thinking of us Japan. ❤️
  
  Will they be tariffed? Government holds them until the people pay 10% of their value to get them planted?
- We need to take that away from him. Ignore whatever fascist shit he plans and throw giant rogue celebrations everywhere. I hate people but I will show up to counter celebrate democracy just to take away from his unearned prestige.
- Alternatively, we can make it a great anniversary. A reenactment even
- Make America George's Again
… I can’t believe 43% support shithead.
- i cant believe the other 57% are so useless. screw them. cant even get a majority or dont even vote. americans are pathetic. democratic party is a joke. i can easily believe 43% are with shithead. where should they have learned any better? may nancy pelosi keep inside trading, chuck schumer lie about gaza.... just shit people everywhere.
So I've still got about even odds of encountering a fucking idiot when I meet someone.
Remind me why I should ever leave the house.
- Here at Lemmy we'll deliver fucking idiots right to your computer.
  
  The Real World: Idiots but I have to put on pants.
  Lemmy: Idiots but I don't have to put on pants.
  
  I was exiled from Reddit. You have no idea how bad it can get until you've spent over a decade there. At least with Lemmy I don't have to scroll through dozens of juvenile puns just to get to a discussion that is soon derailed by Russian propaganda trolls.
  I still miss the guitar subs, though. The idiots tended to ignore them.
- I mean you gotta get food or something
  
  Instacart and DoorDash mean never having to talk to humans
- I don't think fucking idiots are evenly distributed, so the odds depend on where you go.
Higher than biden’s average. Yes, you should be alarmed
Still has all the power in the world. What if it dropped to 20%, would that make any difference?
- The republican congress members are still voted in. They can impeach if it gets bad enough
  
  And what would be bad enough that they would choose to give up their dictator?
  
  Tell me… what happens if they impeach?
  The executive stops even remotely pretending to operate by the rule of law?
thats depressingly high.
OK ONLY 13% MORE AND SCHUMER CAN ENACT THE MASTER PLAN!!!
After today's market reaction, that's gonna drop even further...
- Maybe it will plummet in a free fall nosedive to a staggering 42.5%
- Down 4% today so far. Retirement fantasies evaporating. Probably good news for 20 somethings, they can buy more and if they survive the climate change famines, water wars, genocides, and non-renewable resource shortages, those shares will probably be worth a lot.
- Since his term began, my retirement has probably slipped about a year or so, and so much further to go.
- Already seeing copium on outlets like Faux where this is being compared to austerity during a war where you take it up the ass for a cause bigger than yourself....which is what, exactly? Who knows? For the glory of fat old donvict? But the magoffs lap this up.
- Give it time.
  Extreme right news junkets will tell trump’s followers how to inform the objectors that this is ok, and how it’s someone else’s fault.
The lowest so far. Wait until the inflation from his new set of international tariffs and resulting retaliatory tariffs kicks in.
- after much bad his approval should sink 5 more points.
Lowest... so far...
Not to worry, he just taxed all the world's stuff on Americans.
How in the name of all that is holy can Krasnov have as high as 43% approval?
Don't about things you can't change. Like who is the president. You don't actually vote for a president, the electoral college electors do. You literally vote to suggests to these random fellers who to vote for. Then, they vote for whoever the fuck gave them the new shiny car.
- Our election process sucks, but it's not because of faithless electors. The vast majority of times it was because the candidate died before the election.
  Since 1900, there have been only 16 faithless electors who defected for individual reasons
  
  How about your vote is worth 1/56th or something like that in comparison to my vote just because you live in the wrong state. Or how about you are the one gay guy in a straight community so your vote on any gay related agenda means nothing. How about that?
This is an budding authoritarian government where the polls don't matter.
I'm pretty sure the lowest it could go is around 35% that's when you get to the lizard alien people who think they are sending kids to mars to harvest adrenochrome out of them.
Too damn high.
Trump approval falls to 43%, lowest since returning to office ^*

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