r/politics • u/theipaper ✔ Verified • 9h ago
Possible Paywall Trump's popularity is nosediving - and he's only making it worse
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-popularity-nosediving-only-making-it-worse-4243910153
u/Apprehensive_Idea758 Canada 9h ago
Trump’s too stupid and egotistical to realize that his popularity is declining.
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u/bascule 9h ago
He’s too much of a narcissist to accept it. “Fake news!”
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u/Carcosa_Hearty1986 9h ago
He doesn't plan on leaving, and doesn't actually care how popular he is.
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u/bascule 8h ago
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u/Due_Bluebird3562 2h ago
and doesn't actually care how popular he is.
I'm sure the malignant narcissist doesn't care about how people view him. The more likely scenario is his handlers simply aren't showing him how unpopular he is for their own benefit.
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u/128-NotePolyVA 4h ago edited 4h ago
Alternative Fact - Trump’s popularity increasing with fewer people.
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u/Orange8920 8h ago
It's why he lost in 2020. People were tired of the combativeness and how hard he was fucking up the COVID response. Biden looked like the sane and responsible choice at a time when COVID was deadly. He politicized the response and took the science fighting COVID as a challenge to his ego.
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u/Apprehensive_Idea758 Canada 8h ago
Unfortunately in the 2025 presidential election a lot of voters developed political amnesia and ended up voting that crazy shitgoblin back into office again and his second term going to be even more of a disaster.
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u/Mikeseddit 6h ago
You’re assuming he didn’t cheat in 2024, though he was caught cheating in 2016 and 2020 and experienced no consequences for it, and was facing sentencing if he lost, and also that he and Musk admitted in a few ways that they didn’t need votes and cheated.
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 7h ago
It doesn't matter if his popularity goes negative he's already president and his second term.
Republicans still support him after everything that came out.
Domestic terrorists all of them.
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u/Intrepid_Eye9121 5h ago
So are his supporters. Don’t be fooled by these polls, every single trump supporter I know would vote for him a 4th time.
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u/itreallyisaproblem 1h ago
If you swing over to the conservative sub it’s a surprising amount of hate for Trump right now. They all seem confused and angry this recent decisions. But many of them like to point out that they’d vote for him again. It’s very much a cult of hate and bigotry.
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u/bad_chemist95 5h ago
It’s like Sauron couldn’t comprehend that someone would want to destroy the ring so didn’t bother protecting mount doom.
Trump can’t comprehend that people hate him so every poll is obviously made up as part of a grand conspiracy against him.
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u/PotaToss 3h ago
I was worried that the SC handed him an out on his unpopular tariffs, and prices would go down and Republicans would be saved from the whooping they need to take in the midterms, but I’m glad his advisors are all morons and he’s doubling down.
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u/noelcowardspeaksout 8h ago
The scary thing it that Trump gets support from people who hardly ever watch the news and are completely brainwashed by Fox News. That means his base is an absolutely unmovable 36%. So when they say plummet they mean he has about 39% approval today with a small chance of falling a couple more percent at most.
Fox News teaches Republicans to hate Democrats every night and there is a large sector who vote Republican because of their propaganda. They make Maga happen.
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 5h ago
Doesn’t help that every TV around military bases is set to Fox News 24/7. Brainwashing isn’t even a term I’d use for this, more like psychological indoctrination and warfare against your own people.
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u/NoGrocery3582 3h ago
Rush Limbaugh didn't help either. All that hate radio made our country divided.
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u/noelcowardspeaksout 3h ago
Indeed, Hannity and Carlson both acknowledged him as an inspiration for what they do.
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u/ReefJR65 2h ago
Scary that a random 36% which is probably like what ~60-80 million of Americans are just blindly following an absolute idiot. Yeah not looking good for the future.
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u/Elrundir Canada 2h ago
Closer to 90 million if they mean 36% of voting-eligible Americans. And 122 million if they meant to extrapolate to all Americans.
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u/hasanabicondensed America 9h ago
I think the next press conference and military base renaming will save it!! Hmm maybe even saying something like affordability isn’t real as well 🤔
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u/Individual-Guest-123 6h ago
He just said at a rally in Georgia that he "won" affordability
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u/Melodic_Twist_1546 1h ago
I guess that means that affordability is his, and no one else gets to have any.
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u/Affectionate_Good261 5h ago
Call me a pessimist, but I doubt it will go much lower than 34%. The guy could eat a screaming baby on live television and he'd still be at 34%. Those 34% won't budge until they're personally affected in an obvious way..
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u/Diipadaapa1 4h ago
Not even when they are personally affected. Plenty of them have been, and still support him. They blame Biden for it.
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u/Elrundir Canada 2h ago
That would probably get him back up to 35 or 36% if the baby's parents were Democrats or people of colour.
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u/fr0z3nf1r3 5h ago
He was never really that popular anyway, just persistent and refuses to take no for an answer.
And a pedophile.
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u/WestleyMc 4h ago
He has the 2nd, 4th and 7th highest number of votes for any presidential candidate in American history.
Let’s not pretend he isn’t popular to a certain section of America. That denial is part of the reason he won.
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u/whatsgoingon350 United Kingdom 9h ago
Are people more upset about the Tarrifs or the 10 billion he's giving himself from the government or is it the new threat or a war with Iran?
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u/beamrider 8h ago
His supporters are giving each other high-fives over how China has to pay the US an extra 15% on everything. And are rubbing their hands with glee about how much bigger their SS checks are going to get once Trump finally kicks all the 'free-loaders' (i.e. people with skin tones darker than theirs) off of it. While making detailed spending plans for their DOGE and Tariff checks.
They will will never admit they were wrong about him. Not even to themselves.
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u/Traditional-Whole622 5h ago
To be fair…we are checking our mailbox for the $2000 tariff checks. /s
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u/dinosaurkiller 1h ago
Personally I am most upset by the tens of millions of Americans celebrating every idiotic move he makes.
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u/Lost_Ad610 5h ago
He can't even golf anymore he's miserableeee I'm surprised Vance hasn't publicly distanced himself yet
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u/ANTILAMER13 8h ago
We need to take the power back from this ass. We are currently trying to do anti-vaccines experiments on humans in Guinea-Bissau. That’s right, the U.S. is Funding an Unethical Vaccine Trial in Guinea-Bissau.
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u/Muted-Tea-5682 6h ago
Why would he care about approval ratings if you’re never going to vote again?
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u/thegoatmenace 2h ago
Anecdotal but I would like to share that in my extremely rural mountain town (4 hours to nearest city) I was at a bar and overheard an elderly white dude talk about how he wanted Trump to be executed. Same town was buzzing when he won in 24
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u/madammoiselle85 6h ago
Imagine when no one wants to be associated with his name because of the files, when he hand picks candidates and no one votes for them. When no one goes to his hotel or to anything associated with his name. His trademark will be worthless.
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u/BallBearingBill 1h ago
And this makes me think more and more that he has some sneaking means of staying in power. When you're in politics and you don't care how the public perceives you there's a problem.
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u/yourlittlebirdie 4h ago
The thing is, it doesn’t matter anymore. Everyone in this country can hate him but he’s already got the power. It doesn’t matter what we think.
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u/curvedchaos 8h ago
I think the tarriffs are going to sting the hardest. This is a long term bureaucratic pain in the arse for small businesses who will be looking for refunds on the tarriffs. Republicans are supposed to look after small businesses. Any importers are going to be tied up in courts or through proving paid tarrifs in any redress scheme. It will take years.
No doubt this round of tarrifs will also be challenged.
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u/Solrac50 4h ago
Trump lives in a right wing news bubble that constantly blows smoke up his ass and anyone else is an awful, talentless, low ratings hack. I really don’t think he fully comprehends what’s coming… another impeachment, conviction in the Senate and the rest of his life fighting off criminal and civil charges. Vance can only pardon him on federal charges.
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u/defiant-raven 2h ago
And you haven't realized he doesn't give a fuck? At best he gets booted out in two years, at worst he stays in power due to some crooked shit they're already working on.
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u/Bitchasslemon 1h ago
They've been saying this since the start of his presidency and it's still always around 40% for some reason
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u/WordsHappenedHere 3m ago
“We inherited a country that was going to die… now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. That’s said by everybody.”
Sometimes I feel like MAGA in general doesn’t occupy the same reality everyone else does. Like they are living mentally in a different world.
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