Summary
Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected U.S. president since World War II, except for himself in 2017.
While his immigration policies and government downsizing have support, controversial moves—like ending birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico—face strong opposition.
Economic concerns, particularly rising prices, remain a major issue for voters.
Analysts say Trump’s popularity will likely hinge on broader economic and immigration policies, with potential political consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections.
Ah yeah, double think
Winning the popular vote is being unpopular
Winning the election is losing the election
Not voting for Trump is voting for Trump
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
There are not 4 lights, but 5 lights
The stunlock continues and intensifies
It’s Tory’s newspaper, right?
Remember a week ago when he had his highest approval rating ever when he took office?
Well, that sure was quick. The goldfish have remembered why we got rid of him in the first place.
They really do invoke the thought of a goldfish, don’t they?
He’s the only President to never reach 50% approval, yet he’s been elected twice.
That’s all the evidence you need to know that our election system is broken.
Your people are rock chewing stupid, that’s the big issue
As long as you need those “Rock chewing stupid” people to win an election, and you keep thinking of them as such, you will KEEP losing elections
Those “rock chewing stupid” people are LITERALLY American workers. You know, the people that for good or bad keep the country running?
And then democrats have the gall to call themselves the party of the worker man.
Pathetic
People really hate women presidential candidates apparently.
Lol no. Studies have been done about this. The average voter doesn’t give five shits if the candidate is a man or a woman.
3 chances at guessing what the average voter cares about.
Hint: it’s not gender policies, pronouns or social culture wars
When the average voter doesn’t give a damn either way while someone else cares deeply, but only in one direction, it makes the minority the most important demographic.
Let’s say you have a choice between “A” and “1”, and 98% of people don’t care. But 2 percent care deeply and will vote based on the superiority of “A”, while nobody votes based on their support of “1.”
All else being equal, if one pay ignores the issue while the other adopts the platform of “A is great, and 1 is bad”, the latter party will win the election.
That’s how the GOP wins elections. They target single-issue voters: Gun nuts. Pro-lifers. Racists. Christian Nationalists. Relatively small groups that vote in lockstep without a significant equivalent group on the other side of the issue.
Sure: most people are pro-choice. But how many pro-choice Democrats would have changed their vote if Trump and Harris had opposite positions than reality on those issues but were otherwise identical? I certainly wouldn’t have voted for Trump over it. But pro-life voters absolutely will change based on that single issue.
It’s why every single time the Dems make that a central issue, they get slaughtered in the general election. Pro-choice Republicans simply don’t prioritize the right to choose over everything else, so they keep voting red.
The Republicans are masters of finding and manufacturing single-issue voting groups that will vote against their own interests to achieve a goal the GOP doesn’t actually care about.
That must be it. No other lesson to be learnt.
The important thing to remember is that this doesn’t matter at all. If you’re a progressive who is overwhelmed by the state of affairs and looking for a hint of good news, this aint it.
This will affect nothing
Least popular, but not unpopular enough to vote against.
About 29% of Americans voted for Trump. If we look only at the people who voted, then about 49% voted for him. Stop trying to make it seem like it’s the people’s fault. The electoral system is clearly broken.
Ummm those that didn’t vote are also responsible. It IS the people’s fault. But they shouldn’t see it that way. Either they are ok with fascism or actively crave it. Apparently the majority of us are fascists or think we are.
You give people too much credit. Most people don’t spend any time researching and critically engaging with politics or even news, and you probably couldn’t force them even if your tried to add compulsory politically neutral civics to the education system. Some people do well in math, but not in science. The same will be true in this class too.
Then there’s propaganda fucking everything up even further. Most people are not immune to propaganda and misinformation, particularly when most of what they know comes from their friends, who are themselves very likely victims of misinformation.
The most disturbing evidence of how uninformed the general public was, “Did Biden drop out?” trending in searches on election day.
You’re working off of an extremely idealized view of the electoral system.
No I’m not. I’m also not saying it isn’t broken. What I’m saying is usually the more people that vote, the more democratic it gets and that people who don’t care enough to even figure out who’s running in elections are NOT blameless.
Yes, they are. A system that allows a candidate who didn’t even get half the votes to run the country is fundamentally broken and not participating in it, for whatever reason, doesn’t make you at fault. It’s the orphan crushing machine all over again.
The electoral system is broken.
But people in swing states stayed home. The buck stops there.
There’s also mounting evidence that many of them didn’t actually stay home.
This needs to be its own post, if it isn’t already.
Doesn’t matter; we are still infected with the donvict cancer.
Lame duck (maybe), so I don’t think he cares about popularity. He’s pushing out EO’s as fast as he can, and many of them are idiotic.
So he’s more popular this time than last time
Why?
Because information literacy is at an all time low, and people are easily swayed by propaganda on their doom rectangles.
And this time, the entire digital media complex is on his side: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, Amazon.
Because the electorate is about 51% morons and self-interested people willing to let the country burn for tax cuts that will only benefit about 5% of them.
And yet he still got re-elected. We are the dumbest nation comprised of the most idiotic people to ever exist in history.
This is what I keep saying to my friends when we argue politics
We can no longer just say that Dumpster Don is an idiot
We can now say that the entire US is one giant collective idiot
The nation is dumb … so is it any wonder that they have a dumb leader?
It makes me so sad. I live here and I feel constant shame, anger, depression. I always say the right is filled with hate, but I find myself hating and it bothers me. I try to understand everyone.
But we’re reaching the point of how much tolerance should intolerant people be shown? And I’m over it personally, fuck anybody who voted for him/not at all and fuck him too.
Let’s just hope that we don’t use that position to terrorize other nations further than we already have
Note approval ratings in the USA start with Truman so this is the lowest approval rating period.
The fact that he isnt even less popular than his last election scares me. The guy has proven himself time and time again in the spotlight to be evil, moronic, really any negative adjective you can think of, and he still has supporters. More, even. How? *
Because people in this country have the memory of a fucking goldfish. I’m sure it’s going to drop hard in a week.
The how is people who disprove of him being more than willing to allow him to win an election because they say there is no difference between him and his opponent. That is up till he is elected and then they suddenly realize how much worse he actually is.
Yeah, the people that believed the trolls and the fake left and the Enlightened Centrists ™ going on about gEnOcIdE and bOtHsIdEs are going to have Pikachu face for the next 4 years (if we are lucky that it’s only that long).
Enlightened Centrist??? Centrists tend to be the pragmatic ones who looked to vote for biden and then harris and the genociden biden always seem to identify with far left in my experience here anyway. Heck I don’t even consider myself a centrist so much but I am pragmatic and I do find when talking to the far left I definitely appear center to them and to the right (because there is not moderate right that I can see) I am apparently the biggest woke, lefty, communist type like biden or obama.
That label is more aimed at the bothsiderists that claim they are Above It All ™ and like to WellACKCHUALLY everything and everyone. Their favorite tactic is usually to talk about “extremes on both sides”, and pull out their Tone Police card and lecture anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh on civility (this while extremist right wingers are doing things like smashing into the Capitol building and smearing feces everywhere. But the Democrats were seen violating Queensberry Rules, so it’s time for a lecture on rules that only Democrats are held to). Another is to claim that they are an “independent”.
All of this is to the benefit of the actual extremes on the far right. The extreme left is barely a thing. In the United States, anyway. Sure there may be some extremely loud people that seem to be driven by identity politics only and doing a lot to make new Republicans (if you ask me), but they are not really representative of anything, and certainly not the Democratic Party…
yeah I guess the loud portion here was trumpeting how all the lack of votes for kamala was all do to not appeasing them enough and there was a lack of voting somewhere as it was down.
And the thing people are most upset about is renaming the Gulf. What in the absolute fuck?
Trans people are attempting to flee the country fearing for their lives
…and the thing people care about is the fucking Gulf of Mexico getting renamed
That’s the whole point. Deflect real controversy with stupid sound bites.
I need to know the content of the footnote.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Also, until the Democratic party engages in serious reform that throws out the old leadership who keeps collaborating with fascists, slashing our safety nets, and throwing taxpayer money
andat private for profit organizations we’re going to keep getting these waves of fascists taking over every other electione; autocorrect is reactionary /s
I hope his old age makes his life extremely difficult.
Ngl, I hope he dies. Soon.
Would it make a difference? His VP is a white supremacist, too, and his party still controls both chambers.
His death would provide America’s favorite gender-neutral toilet, so that’s something.
And the VP is already third in command. Fifth if you count Putin and Thiel.
Cults of personality don’t transfer power well, generally. I think that is why Project 2025 was such a big deal for them since it gave structure even when trump dies.
This. The demons behind Project 2025 that hate democracy and hate the Constitution are trying to get as much rammed through as possible because they know he won’t last forever and the likelihood of finding another stooge that has sway over the stupid people like donvict does is not great.
Vance? Elon - even if he could run - Vivek? LOL, give me a break, they have zero charisma.
And these stupid people won’t go back to methadone like Jeb or Romney - they got pure China White as donvict and were mainlining his hatred. I’m not sure if the qons will be able to find another donvict. A whole lot of stupid people saw his dumb game show and really do think he’s a businessman, and that “businessman == good”.
It’s not even the businessman thing though. That is just a smokescreen for the fact that he is racist. Mark Cuban is objectively a 50x better capitalist businessman than trump ever was. He campaigned for Harris and all of the “strong businessmen best” people completely did a 180.
It is 100% only hatred and wanting certain people to die and every single other thing they say they care about is a smokescreen as proven by their own actions. Like how now the price of everything suddenly doesn’t matter, because the “right” people are getting hurt.
Just like how DOGE doesn’t actually go after inefficiencies like the extremely corrupt and inefficient military contractor sector but instead goes for things that hurt black people more like school lunches for 6 year olds.
Perhaps this isn’t related to DOGE, but the White House memo also threw the defense industry in a lot of uncertainty over military-related grants possibly getting cut. It’s more likely collateral damage than intentional, though.
True, but that would more likely be affecting military grants involving veteran care like paying for veterens to go to university, job placement programs, etc… They have been itching to do that for a while in between saying “we support the troops”
Sadly worst ones seem to live the longest 😭
Chin up! There’s always operation Valkyrie 2.0
True but hopefully done with a much better plan lol
We’re fine with kicking out all the Mexicans but don’t you dare call that water something else. Classic America.
He was unpopular when voted in…inconsequential reporting
Don’t worry, he’ll get less popular along the way.
Cool I sure wish my rights weren’t being taken away
smae
