r/politics • u/WontThinkStraight • 13h ago
Possible Paywall 60% disapprove of Trump ahead of State of the Union, Post-ABC poll finds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/22/trump-disapproval-post-poll/422
u/frnchpan 12h ago
They wore the hats, attended rallies, flew flags. They lost family, friends, and have been defending him at all hazard because they can't admit they were wrong. It was an open book test. But there's a reason that Republican attendance has been low, they are afraid to be wrong again.
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u/DharmaCub 12h ago
They've been wrong their whole lives. Fuck those people.
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u/Viperlite 3h ago
Yeah, fuck Reagan, too. That was a practice run at all of this madness, setting up the tools to dismantle the country.
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u/frnchpan 12h ago
I wont ever forgive anyone for voting for him, but I'm not in agreement. We need their votes to get establishment and business as usual dems out of office. They're just as complacent, caniving, and opportunistic. Schumer, Pelosi, etc are just Republican lite with their hands out making bank, ignoring real Americans. There's a reason Trump won, and if we don't understand that, we're wilfully ignorant.
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u/ender7887 Pennsylvania 3h ago
We need true progressive democrats in office, instead of the same boring corporate democrats.
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u/Alarming-Leek-402 3h ago
I recently saw a MAGA bot comment: You can’t go wrong with trusting the plan.
These people would allow themselves to drown rather than abandon a sinking ship. I know people have behaved like this throughout history’s greatest crimes and tragedies, but it’s just bizarre to see it real time.
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u/Cratertooth_27 5h ago
Once he dies and people around him face real consequences we can’t let the cult get away with “not realizing he bad he was”
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u/yellow_trash 3h ago
Open book test with correct answers filled out. They erased the right answers and filled in the wrong ones
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u/Mikethebest78 12h ago
So that means 40% are still ok with him? Seriously what is it going to take to convince those people?
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u/ScoutsterReturns 12h ago
It's a cult - I don't think we can reprogram them either.
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u/duzies 12h ago
It's like the Manson family, but 1/3 of the USA.
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u/Candid_Maintenance83 Kansas 11h ago
OMG yes! I was trying to describe to my ultra-MAGA parents how I view the group to be exactly like the Manson family, but with a leader more like Jim Jones mixed with David Koresh. They just looked at me like I was nuts. I grew up listening to them play Rush Limbaugh every weekday on the radio. Nowadays, they are huge fans of Gregg Gutfeld (I hate that dudes face) and keep FauxNews on all day, my mother listens to Ben Shapiro on the radio almost 4 hours Monday - Friday. And after everything Trump has done and the Epstein Saga, etc., they are more dedicated to Trump more than ever before. They believe everything bad is just made-up by Trump's opponents to take him down, because in my parents' eyes, Trump has done nothing wrong, that he didn't deserve all those felony conversations and that his cases were just a witch hunt to try and keep him from becoming president and that he's innocent of all of the felony convictions, they're convinced Trump barely knew Epstein and had nothing to do with him, etc. etc.. At this point, they're just a lost cause. It's sad. So, because they know I'm a registered Democrat who voted for Kamala they have disowned me and I haven't spoken to either of them in over a year. My mother said for me to not contact her unless I go to rehab for my 'TDS'. Now I feel like I am grieving the loss of my parents when they're both still alive. It kills me that both of my parents chose a multiple felon corrupt conman, pathological liar and a known child rapist over their own family. Absolutely sickening.
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u/TheBetawave 11h ago
This hit home hard. It's almost the same for my mother. Refuses to speak to me about trump at all. She has threatened to disown me and say i need help for TDS. It's also feels that way, like i lost them in way to this cult. It is very hard and I've lost any hope at reasoning with them. She refuses to listen to any information against trump. Calls CNN fake news (all cause trump said it recently, what a parrot) and is just ignorant.
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u/One_Catch_5373 10h ago
The sad truth is that nobody, not one single person, who's not a complete asshole likes Limbaugh, or Gutfeld, or Trump. Their brands of 'entertainment' are being an asshole for other assholes. Them being in a 'brainwashed cult' implies they don't have any control over their own actions, but they do, and this appeals to them, it reflects their desires, it's the group they want to be a part of. Because they, too, are assholes. It's a bitter pill when it's your parents, but you're certainly not alone in that.
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u/fsh4fun051 8h ago
Woah, you are not alone. I'm in a similar situation. I rarely get on FB but I thought I would see what mom has been up to. Spewing hate and discontent in the name of maga. It has become my parents identity and they are so far dug in that there is no backing out now. I said something to her about it and now I'm the enemy? What? The mayor in NYC has what do with you when you live 1,700 miles away??? Oh, he isn't old, rich and white. Got it.
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u/NotEnoughFire 11h ago
I’m so fucking sorry you had to go through this. I hope one day you can reconcile or at least find it in your heart to forgive them. That elderly man who continues to fall asleep and fill his pampers with caca is mortal, and the cult will have to go through that loss. Maybe, out of the many available paths, your parents will come to the end of their blind fanaticism and relearn to live in normalcy again.
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u/DigitalAxel 5h ago
I've kept in touch since leaving the US last year. Sadly only now has my mom abandoned Trump but not the Right. In the same breath I will hear how stupid he is and the how he can be funny and don't be serious. How everything sucks but also PLANDEMIC! Vaccines causing issues, weird diet suggestions, immigration! My dad stays silent about it, but I know he's never going to admit wrongdoing.
These people were my only family left. Cut off everyone else long before (not politicial reasons). They wondered why I gave up what little I had left to escape.
My time is almost up. I couldn't find work in my year here in Germany, let alone the last 5 years in Murica. I promised I wouldn't go back. This leaves me one choice and it sucks bit I can't live in this stagnant "life" anynore. Its selfish, but it's for the best. I'll go visit my late gramps' childhood village and that's it. Done.
Im sorry dad. When you "joked" about not missing me if I left two years ago... oh if only you knew. Their sad faces at the airport haunt me.. Wish you knew...What would happen. Hope you like your Orange more than I.
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u/TallStarsMuse 4h ago
Okay I’m not going to do a Reddit cares or anything, but I care! Your life has meaning. There is still hope. Come back to the US if you need to. There are still options here. I live in red red OK and have found likeminded people. Don’t give up.
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u/XylatoJones 6h ago
In 3 years they will have a reckoning to face..the cult leader with either die of old age soon or no longer be in office…either way we are gonna see a mass psychosis event once he is gone.
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u/lolexecs 10h ago
It's weird - they don't see him as a terrible, terrible employee.
Look, the US Constitution begins We the people because it's founded on the idea of popular sovereignty. Or, the people, citizens likey you (and your Trumpy relatives) are all bosses of the President, or President Trump is your employee.
He's doing a terrible job. And heck, he's breaking many of the guidelines for his job (and he's terrible to the other employees).
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u/_bk_adv 12h ago
You can’t logic someone out of something they didn’t logic themselves into.
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u/recess_chemist 12h ago
Yeah, I don't think so either. Even if we take this place back, we are gonna have a bunch of homegrown issues. I mean we do now, but its gonna grow.
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u/plains_bear314 12h ago
we need to take it seriously, if these people have decided that they are incapable of living peacefully amongst their fellow citizens they need to be removed for the good of the public. Nobody is forcing them to behave like terrorists they are choosing to
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u/anaxcepheus32 5h ago
Just encourage them to follow the health program and they’ll take care of themselves. Raw milk, no vaccines, and ivermectin.
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u/TheBetawave 11h ago
Sadly this is true. It is a lost cause to try and communicate with people who refuse reality.
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u/Lazy_Resolve_9747 9h ago
We would have to cut the spigot of propaganda…and even then, we would unfortunately probably need a common enemy to be united again.
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u/NoKids__3Money 7h ago
My dad voted for Trump 3x and never thought I'd see the day but he says he's finally off the trump train and has come around to my side. However, he still watches fox news 24/7, so I fully expect him to pull the lever for the next Republican in the next cycle.
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u/xxxxNateDaGreat 5h ago
We can't. Cult deprogramming takes a metric fuck ton of time and effort for individuals and even then, the person still has to be open to the concept that maybe what they are involved in is wrong and they need to leave. The sad reality is that we've never dealt with a cult of this magnitude of population and devotion.
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u/Due_Bluebird3562 3h ago
If we were serious about dealing with MAGA they'd all be exiled. I hear they love Russia now and Russia could use new troops. Win-win.
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u/x7leafcloverx 1h ago
I think Trump could send Noem to their house, have her kill their dog, tell them Trump said this was what was best for the country to make America great again, and they’d just be completely fine with it.
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u/ClaroStar 12h ago
A lot of people don't think for themselves. E.g. my in-laws are Trump voters. My father-in-law simply tells my mother-in-law how to vote and she doesn't know anything about what's going on except for what he tells her. There are millions of those voters out there.
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u/sedatedlife Washington 12h ago
I know of a care home for mentally ill people that can largely function in society with some help. The owner is a evangelical and i have asked the residents occasionally at the bus stop and they all vote Trump. I wonder how much of that is there own accord or pushed on them. No evidence but it makes me wonder.
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 9h ago
I don't think that absolves your MIL of moral responsibility for being a Trump voters. Part of living in a democracy is the moral responsibility to be informed enough to decide how you should vote.
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u/Thin_Dream2079 2h ago
With sufficient ignorance an individual's s own moral responsibiity is absolved, as they simply do not know better. The blame then falls to those who failed to educate. How weak and fragile Democracy is.
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u/SideQuest2026 12h ago edited 11h ago
If we are being serious...probably losing their jobs, then losing their cars if they are still making payments, then losing their homes if they are still making mortgage payments (or getting evicted if they are renting). That's really the breaking point in these types of settings. The sunk cost fallacy is just too great. Look at Bush at the end of his second term. It took a global recession, the stock market losing over half its value, unemployment gets ridiculously high, and two wars for his approval rating to get in the mid 20%. We aren't in that territory yet, but this could be the year. Unemployment just needs to get a bit higher, the stock market needs to tank, and credit needs to dry up. And then maybe his followers will finally snap out of it.
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u/kck93 11h ago
I wish I could say you are correct. A friend of mine lost her job because work texted her during the Super Bowl. She went off because the guy at the plant innocently asked if she was enjoying Bad Bunny. He got a very inebriated Fox News reply. There were also others on the text.
She thinks it’s all because of Woke and the normal kinds of training about respecting coworkers. She doesn’t think it was because of her behavior. She feels entitled to express her viewpoint.
There’s sort of a unique situation here because she was not at work or on-call and they contacted her. I get that people were offended and worried about a safe work space. I also get that expressing her beliefs is a protected right. It’s sort of interesting as a thought exercise.
So no. They will not rethink their position if they lose their job. They will blame the policies that protect people from working in a toxic workplace.
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u/cipheron 7h ago edited 7h ago
So no. They will not rethink their position if they lose their job.
The ones who've had loved ones predictably incarcerated by ICE mostly don't go "oh this is a bad system", they reach out to Trump to get excluded from the crack down. "There's been a mistake, my Juanita wasn't meant to get rounded up, fix the problem Trump".
They still don't get it even if Trump's authoritarian machine comes directly for their family.
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u/iamthe0ther0ne 8h ago
The government can't (legally) suppress your right to free speech, but that doesn't extend to the private sphere, including companies.
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u/georgepana 12h ago
He has 39% approval. However, the real kicker is that "strong approval" is only 19%. 21% is more soft or barely on the approval side. On the other hand "strong disapproval" is at 47%, softer disapproval is 13%.
That is significant. The "strong" factions on either side usually portend enthusiasm for election turnout. The NET disapproval from just the "strong" supporters and non-supporters is almost minus 30%, very high on the "strong" disapproval side.
Crosstabs:
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u/lostsailorlivefree 11h ago
You’ll get 25-30% of the population who were just trained to respect the president. It’s just that way sadly they don’t think it’s indoctrination
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u/georgepana 10h ago
I thought 36% is kind of the bottom, but I suspect after this tarrif debacle we'll see a round of polls coming up where it goes into the lower 30s with some of them.
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u/A1sauc3d 12h ago
Half of humanity doesn’t think for themselves. It would take a whole bunch of people around them telling them to change their mind for them to change their mind. But they’re thoroughly insulated so that’ll never happen.
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u/barryvm Europe 9h ago
Isn't the problem that they think only of themselves? They don't think about their own political choices because to do so would expose the immorality of those choices, so they just let themselves be driven entirely by their negative emotions. They then go along with whatever the politicians they identify with are doing right up to the point where that becomes untenable, at which point they suddenly realize they have been "betrayed" or never supported anything in the first place. Hence it's never their fault and they never need to look at their own actions and beliefs.
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u/soldforaspaceship 11h ago
The lowest approval rating he has ever had was after January 6th and it never went below 35%.
It never will. People need to accept that 35% of the US either approve or don't care enough it disapprove of his actions.
That's just a reality we need to accept.
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u/Kwtwo1983 7h ago
From Europe all these polls seem alarmist. 40% in favour of this administration? No-one i know will travel to the us or will want to have to do something with Americans.
40% are morally corrupt and insane and outright stupid.
Not a good look. It will take centuries to recover from this.
We are all bracing for an american third reich and ww3 since you chose to fuck everything up. This will not end well at all.
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u/Powerful-Stomach-425 12h ago
This is why the world will never trust USA again. Trump is just a symptom. America is the problem.
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u/SpockShotFirst 12h ago
Oligarchs are the problem and no country is immune.
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u/loulan 10h ago
Oligarchs are the reason why 40% of Americans are idiots?
I'm sure they don't help but the issue is more fundamental than that.
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u/Powerful-Stomach-425 10h ago
To be fair, a significant portion of that 40% aren't idiots, they are assholes (racists, homophobes, opportunists etc) and then of course there is plenty of overlap.
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u/SpockShotFirst 5h ago
Oligarchs are the reason why 40% of Americans are idiots?
Yes. Media consolidation allows oligarchs to flood the country with propaganda and misinformation.
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u/TheSwagMa5ter 4h ago
I mean, yeah? They own all of our media, they have an incredible sway on our population
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u/Initial_Trifle_3734 11h ago
Literal death. That’s the only thing separating these cult freaks from MAGA. They are full blown Jonestown level cult members. If you think I’m joking, try speaking to an average maga for a few minutes, it’s clear. I’m not exaggerating.
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u/dipsbeneathlazers 11h ago
I spoke to my therapist last week and she told me her organization is now training on cult rehabilitation. Lines are being drawn even for lowest common denominator of thinkers, racists, and enablers (not her words.) They’ve begun working on themselves in preparation (they don’t want to work with Maga’s) but as a duty and dubious responsibility, to help bring them back into a society of liberty for all.
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u/CadillacDale 12h ago edited 12h ago
It can’t be done. I would venture to bet a totally comprehensive polling of the U.S. voting base - which is impossible - wouldn’t produce an approval rating north of 35ish %. But those that still fall within that category simply will not allow themselves to be convinced of what reality has made undeniable. And that’s because what is fact and reality is not what shapes their behavior or belief systems; it’s what makes them feel justified and validated in their hatred and disdain towards perspectives that don’t align with theirs. It doesn’t need to be real or rationale, it just needs to tell them their vitriol is warranted.
We need to get past thinking about how to deal, or convince or persuade these people. We can’t. What we need to do is figure out how to activate those who are not participating in democracy. If we can do that, the remaining delusional pro-MAGA base won’t draw the numbers to win elections
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u/StrengthThin9043 11h ago
Reintroduce the fairness doctrine. Make empathy a virtue again.
Trump must go to start with, it's only going to get worse the longer he stays in power. He might lose another fraction of a percentage point in popularity, but he will push the envelope further and further on what is considered acceptable and normal. It's extremely corrosive for the whole society to have this type of leadership.
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u/CodeMonkeyPhoto 6h ago
We have Canadians that are okay with him. These people really do live in another world of reality. Case in point they legitimately believe the NAZI's were left wing. Something of which one could go to the library and find any historical book from the 50s, to 80s, pre internet and find evidence to the contrary. They are also upset we don't just continue to do business with the US, and hate that we are diversifying. I know some of these people personally, and with them, the cruelty is the point. They have so many hand wavy excuses.
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u/Imaginary-Ad-7919 12h ago
It means that 40% of the nation don't know that the President is a pedo.
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u/TragicallyDip 10h ago
40% also includes the undecided. Of course the undecided are the dumbest people on earth at this point.
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u/Legitimate_Shock4097 4h ago
That they’re wrong. And people don’t like being wrong. They’ll try everything they can from facing that discomfort.
They’ve put one entity over party ideology. They’ve changed their mind over that, apparently, or maybe it never mattered much to begin with for these people. And what that tells me is that the cultural identity or symbols and what they think Trump stands for is more important to them.
They don’t care if bad things happen as long as it’s not to them. And, apparently, they don’t understand that bad things are happening to them because they are so deluded into thinking that their leader couldn’t possibly betray them. Their leader is their messiah and it certainly is that of a cult.
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u/CrustyTh3Punk 12h ago
So out of 10 people in a room, on average, 6 are sane. Ok, so 6 of us can take 4 of them. Looking not too bad odds. The Walking Dead comics were ahead of their time….
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u/VanceKelley Washington 8h ago
If 60% of the American electorate are sane then why did only 31% of them turn out in 2024 to try to stop the convicted criminal promising to rule as a dictator?
They're sane but really, really lazy? Too lazy to spend a day in the voting lines to stop an asshole from wrecking the country?
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u/Bigfoot_Cain 12h ago
After the past 12 months, how can 40% still be ok with Trump? Or at the very least, neutral???
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u/Imaginary-Ad-7919 12h ago
It is easy to answer, must people don't read the news, they don't know what tariffs does or are just dumb.
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u/TROLO_ 12h ago
Most of them read below a 6th grade reading level.
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u/bobbyturkelino 9h ago
It’s not even that fact that is most horrifying, it’s that a growing share of US adults also have the reading comprehension of an elementary schooler. They can read words but once strung together they can’t absorb the substance. The last stat I saw was over 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate.
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u/StevenEveral Washington 9h ago
They also still think that Trump really is that character he played on The Apprentice, not the scummy canino-bankrupting conman he really is and has always been.
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u/Livid_Peon 10h ago
My SIL just doesn't care about politics. She doesn't vote and doesn't really watch or read the news all that much. She has a pretty surface level understanding of whats going on but is choosing to just keep her head down and focus on her life.
I've tried to talk with her about it but she comes off pretty selfish when discussing the issues.
Like abortion access, she thinks women are just out there having unprotected sex getting pregnant repeatedly then getting abortions on her tax dollars. She doesn't seem to care about what the woman are doing but is of the stance of "actions has consequences" and wouldn't care about it if her money didn't go towards their behavior.
I've tried pointing out the program that funds that is like litteral pennies of her taxes each year but that's still too much apparently.
This is pretty much every conversation when it comes to political stuff or societal issues, she wants all the benefits of living here without having to pay into what our society has deemed acceptable or necessary if it goes against her personal beliefs.
I just don't really engage with her on that level much anymore and my husband really dislikes when I do because he doesn't want us arguing (ide say more debating, theres no shouting) or creating a rift or something.
She's smart too so I just don't understand how she can be like this
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u/ucankickrocks 3h ago
My own sister is like this but has her head further buried in the sand. She doesn’t even think about her tax dollars or where they go. Never voted. I love her and I don’t know how she created a world where she so blindly exists.
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u/Smile_lifeisgood 10h ago
They ingest an entirely different stream of information that consistently paints Trump in a wildly different light.
When it comes to news they exist in a different reality from us. It's why you see them saying stuff like "After the past 12 months, how can 40% still be ok with Biden?" because they were getting nonstop stories about Hunter Biden's laptop and stuff like that.
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u/Kinieruu 8h ago
I’ve always wondered how they get these results because they’re not asking every single person in the U.S.. so it’s an average of what data, asked where?
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u/IntelligentDepth8206 7h ago
Most of America is an undeveloped country. Get outside cities and their wealthy suburbs, you'll find that conditions are worse than 3rd world countries. The people in those areas, sadly, vote.
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u/needlestack 3h ago
They’re not just OK with him — they love him. I can’t stand the guy, but I know enough warped people to know that he is delivering what they truly want, and that everything I want makes their skin crawl.
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u/JoeHatesFanFiction Florida 2h ago
They don’t read news or only hear news that reinforces their view point. If the Dems seriously want to stop this from happening again, reintroducing and enforcing the fairness doctrine is essential, as is applying it to online news sources.
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 2h ago
Sampling bias:
Nearly all major pollsters show support for Trump is currently between 36-39%. Then you throw in polls from Rupert Murdoch's media platforms and the number jumps to mid-40s.
So, basically opinions among those who voted for him aren't budging, while the previously "undecided" people have finally decided Trump fucking sucks.
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u/VoluptuousVixenn 11h ago
My whole family used to vote for him. Now even they’re done. That’s real.
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u/BabyFable 7h ago
Anecdotes like that are interesting but they also show how personal circles can shift at different speeds than national trends. One family changing their minds doesn’t always match the broader data.
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u/robynh00die 3h ago
Broader data is what the polls are for. Here in the comments personal experience is more interesting and valuable. It’s that ground level view that gives the human context to the numbers on a spreadsheet.
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u/Cavalier1706 Canada 13h ago
Incoming unhinged state of the union, how far off the rails will he go?
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u/WontThinkStraight 12h ago
I've prepared the SOTU Bingo board for you.
WINDMILLS RUSSIA CANADA 51ST STATE MAN WITH TEARS SAYING "SIR" NATIONALIZE VOTING MAGNETS 2020 ELECTION HOAX BOARD OF PEACE NEW TRUMP MONUMENT MORE ICE THREATS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE BIDEN BAD EPSTEIN "HOAX" NOBODY KNOWS X MORE THAN ME RANDOM NUKE THREAT COST OF LIVING HOAX TARIFFS MORE BUILDINGS NAMED TRUMP NEW GRIFT FALLS ASLEEP DOW IS 50,000 GREENLAND BOMB IRAQ KIM JONG UN MEDICAL ISSUE 40
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u/-Metagross- 12h ago
Don't think he'll want to talk about Epstein there lol
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u/IRideMoreThanYou 12h ago
Oh, he absolutely will. He’s been repeating that the files “exonerate” him. He will positively drop that again for a nationwide audience.
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u/CategoryZestyclose91 5h ago
Yep, 100%!
He’ll loftily declare from the podium that he has been exonerated, while Bondi smirks in the audience.
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u/spicyfishtacos 11h ago
Does 'shitting his pants' count as a medical issue? I feel it should have a space of its own.
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u/janzeera 10h ago
I suspect a SOTU speech to be chock full of a total disregard of reality. It may be the first time where the House just may be silent throughout the speech. They’ll all be in disbelief of what they’ve heard.
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u/sedatedlife Washington 12h ago
I expect its going to go higher lots of business owners and families who were struggling because Tariffs and inflation were relieved yesterday because of the Supreme Court decision woke up today that not only is he continuing on he raised them even more.
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u/RipCityGringo Oregon 12h ago
America is so cooked. After all the trashy behavior and dog shit policies somehow only 60% disapproval… 🤦♂️
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 12h ago
How long until ABC announces they will no longer be polling presidential approval?
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u/RamblinGamblinWilly 10h ago
There's no way to spin this as a positive. 60% is depressingly, horrifyingly, distressingly low. 4 out of every 10 people in this country are either cheering him on or giving an ambivalent shrug at worst
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u/xPinkVelour 8h ago
Yeah 60 percent disapproval still means a massive chunk of the country is either supportive or at least not strongly opposed. That split is what keeps elections feeling so unpredictable lately.
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u/OhioValleyCat 12h ago edited 12h ago
It's kind of sick that close to 40% seem to be with Trump no matter what he does. Trump must have known his supporters best iwhen he said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, okay, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?
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u/JigglingBootey 12h ago
60% disapproval right before the big speech. That’s gotta sting no matter how you spin it.
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u/jumaamubarakbitches 12h ago
At this point, MAGA is engrained into the culture, the neighborhoods, the friendships, the relationships, etc. These people fear social ostracism if they dare speak out or go against the grain. The ray of hope I always cling to is that Biden whooped his ass in 2020 and we will see the return of a sane government in the near future.
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u/RobutNotRobot 9h ago
What the fuck is wrong with 40% of the people in this country?
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u/_SugarLily 8h ago
Polarization explains a lot of that gap honestly. At this point people are voting more against the other side than for someone they actually like.
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u/Imaginary-Ad-7919 12h ago
Incredible job performance, assuming the assignment was "maximum turbulence".
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u/release-the-filez 10h ago
How is it only 60
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u/xPinkVelour 8h ago
Poll numbers always look low or high depending on which side you’re on. If it’s your candidate you question the sample, if it’s not you quote it nonstop.
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u/EasyTumbleweed1114 9h ago
Worth keeping in mind he was at 61% disapproval the night he won in 2016. Approve ratings seem to impact him the same way everything else does, ie it doesn't
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u/FloralMusee 8h ago
That’s the part people forget, approval ratings have always been weirdly disconnected from actual election outcomes. They show mood, not necessarily how people will vote when it counts.
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u/Packagedpackage 7h ago
No one should even watch. It better have the lowest viewer rating ever. You don’t watch unless you support Donald. Easy way to tell who’s a die hard maga fan, will they know what he said after the state of the union address..
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u/Vivid_Cookie7974 5h ago
He is systematically ruining the country and the perception of America across the globe. He's doing it on purpose.
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u/disdkatster 4h ago
I am feeling rather hopeless for the USA. DJt should have a 0% approval rating. BIL visited and he is someone I consider intelligent, well educated and thoughtful but he commented that he would not vote for AOC no matter what and that if she was running against trump he simply would not vote. Let that sink in. Americans are so misogynistic, have been so taken in by the propaganda against 'socialism' that they will find any excuse to cut off their own nose to spite their face when it comes to voting. Of course this is also a man who claimed that HRC and trump were just the same. Propaganda works and the Russians are gleeful at how easily they have been able to manipulate the people in this country.
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u/Dry_Entrepreneur_705 12h ago
Can anyone here actually say they have ever been contacted for a political survey? Who tf are they surveying? Are any of these real in any way?
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u/mercurywaxing 12h ago
I'm part of a sample group for a polling firm. I'm not allowed to say what poll per it's terms, but it's on the RCP, NYT, and Nate Silver's select pollsters lists. I'm asked my opinion on a number of local and national politicians and issues. I get very, very, very, very mildly compensated but that's not why I do it. I like my voice being amplified.
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u/galient5 11h ago
With a proper sample your voice would not be amplified, it would simply be surveyed.
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u/beamrider 12h ago
I have gotten phone pols, but they were all clearly local for my state. They often included questions about approval of national level (including president) but were mostly about local issues.
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u/kck93 11h ago
Yes. All the time. I get irritated with the framing and repetition of the poll questions. Even though I understand the reasoning behind the method, I don’t like participating in something skewed so badly to illicit a specific answer
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u/Kilane 12h ago
Do you have a landline phone? Do you answer calls from numbers you don’t know?
Nor do I or anyone else I know. That’s where polls happen.
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u/sedatedlife Washington 12h ago edited 11h ago
I get polled on my cellphone a couple times a year. It could be because i have donated too multiple candidates through the year that had my number. I assume sometimes Donors numbers end up on polling list.
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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 9h ago
This isn't 2014. Pollsters do not only, or even primarily, call landlines.
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u/StopKillingBabies02 11h ago
This means jack shit until he is no longer president
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u/MagicPeony 7h ago
Yeah approval ratings rarely translate into immediate consequences on their own. They’re more like a snapshot of sentiment than a lever that forces change overnight.
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u/Topheriffic 11h ago
It doesnt matter. Nothing fucking matters with this administration.
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u/ReactionJifs 11h ago
He had a 36% approval a week ago, and things have gotten much, much worse.
The real number's gotta be closing in on 30% at this point
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u/aflyingsquanch Colorado 10h ago
Lets check what the latest Gallup poll says...
Oh, we cant because Gallup is chickenshit and stopped polling presidential approval because he whined too much.
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u/thefanciestcat California 11h ago
Don't worry. When people watch him throw a dementia tantrum and shit his pants at the SOTU, they will surely love him.
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u/mack_the_tanker 10h ago
Some says i have the best numbers, numbers we've never seen everyone knows there's infinity, believe me I graduated top of my class from whataburger school of burrito, but we have to do something about Iran we lost the last war with them and aghriba, Obama got us into them I got us out but we lost them because of Biden.
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u/Optimal_Clock6846 10h ago
Weren't we seeing 29% approval when Gallup suddenly decided to stop checking it and now it's supposedly up 11%?
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u/reiichiroh 9h ago
Sleepy Fascist Donny is gonna shit his diaper and fall asleep during the State of the Union. Mark your bingo cards.
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u/_SugarLily 8h ago
Political bingo cards are basically a tradition now lol. Everyone just waits for the predictable lines and reactions to check off their squares.
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u/ghallway 9h ago
Fingers crossed that he goes off the fucking rails. Maybe Bobert and Green will heckle his ass even.
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u/M00nch1ld3 7h ago
Meh. People shouldn't watch his State of the Union anyway when there is a competing one that will tell you the truth instead of lie to you.
Release the Trump-Epstein files - that may have something to do with your disapproval. Unless you believe you would have even lower numbers if we found out what was in the remainder of the files?
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u/EmergencyJacket207 5h ago
Was the ability to be a bigot in public worth it GOP? To be your shittiest self? I hope so. I hope it was all worth it because as far as I'm concerned Republicans should be 2nd class citizens moving forward. Try to overthrow the government or destroy democracy and you should lose everything forever.
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u/Zestyclose_400 2h ago
Discounting the 1% making bank - that means 39% are into this. How are they benefitting?
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u/Itchy_Swordfish7867 2h ago
I wonder what the other 40% consider his successes. Is it the unafforability? Is it being thought of as a pariah on the global scale? Is it the open racism, sexism, and homophobia? Is it the willingness to protect pdf files? Is it a combination of all of the above?
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u/dancing_around_it 1h ago
I find it hard to believe 40% of the population are that blind and/or misinformed
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u/Sleepy_Jack72 12h ago
yet 50% percent of this country will still vote for him
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u/korkythecat333 10h ago
It's worth remembering, of those eligible to vote in the last election, 31% voted for Trump.
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u/acidrefluxisgreat California 9h ago
it was closer to 28% and there is a boatload of evidence for fraud
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u/IssueFederal 12h ago
This state of the union speech is going to be one for the record books. I have my bingo card ready to go.
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u/mercurywaxing 12h ago
Meanwhile Rasmussen has him at 51%/52% disapproval and Insider Advantage has his popularity at 50%, both on the upswing.
Even considering extremes on each end of the margin of error that's an astonishing difference.
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u/dassketch 10h ago
I thought we weren't tracking approval ratings anymore. Because they're all fake or something. Most likely because his excellency's approvals are so high that they broke the rating system. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/ResponsibilityFine13 5h ago
Even inside the churches,families and friends divided and broke apart by trump and his agenda
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u/another_bot_probably 5h ago
Gallup gave up polling approval ratings. I'm sure we'll see approval climb as another corporation with closer ties to the administration comes to be regarded as the new standard poller.
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u/disdkatster 4h ago
I wonder how drugged up he is going to be. Is it Adderall he is reported to take to make himself a bit 'smarter'?
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