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.
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.
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.
The electoral system is broken.
But people in swing states stayed home. The buck stops there.
Doesn’t matter; we are still infected with the donvict cancer.
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?
Let’s just hope that we don’t use that position to terrorize other nations further than we already have
Maybe some of those people who he’s not popular with should have fucking voted.
There were a whole lot of low-info voters and certainly a lot of idiots fell for that gEnOcIdE jOe nonsense, too.
People think that “politics doesn’t matter” or fall for the “bothsides” thing honestly think it doesn’t matter if someone like donvict gets into office…and unfortunately all of us are likely to find out…
‘Fell for’
I’m sorry, it’s a very simple conclusion that the genocide will be worse under Trump. There is quite literally no way you can interpret otherwise - he has made it very clear what his plans for Israel are.
They didn’t ‘fall’ for anything, they’re just fucking stupid. They didn’t think, at all.
They were too insignificant to listen to. If you think they’re significant enough to blame, you should have listened to them.
The enemy is both weak and strong.
That fickle bunch changed their mind more than their underwear.
They say the guy is too old so they switch her out for a younger woman and they don’t vote anyways.
No you fucking ingrate. Democrats would have lost if they listened to them anyway. The tik tok voters were never going to vote for democrats, that would be against their sense of virtue. Harris fucked up a ton by not distancing herself from conservatives and Biden but even she tried to throw the Palestinian protesters a bone at one point and there wasn’t a singular budge.
The reason the DNC lost is many. The blame for the end of US democracy is easily spread around because there are many people deserving of blame. It doesn’t really matter anymore anyway though does it?
Not that I have the power to do anything about it, but everyone was supposed to be listening to people with severe delusions about the way our system works?
everyone was supposed to be listening to people with severe delusions about the way our system works?
Those in power did. Here we are.
But … the last guy who was not even on the ballot is as old as Trump. And eggs are expensive. And another country is waging war, sorry, gEnOcIdE. And Kamala sounds foreign and I don’t know what she would do because I prefer to revel in ignorance instead of finding out myself.
I agree that there is genocide happening. I also understand that the guy who got elected is actively in favor of it and wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it if everyone in the country begged him, while the person who lost was trying to balance millions of conflicting priorities (and sadly those dying are not the top priorities) and the result isn’t what I want. There are other things to consider after you realize you’re not going to get what you want.
He won with 1% of the vote, 35% of eligible voters stayed home.
Yeah, that was my point.
I understand, I was just throwing actual numbers out because it pisses me off too.
is this another one of those famously accurate polls we were subjected to during the election?
Especially this previous election, since they’re about to write the tax laws AGAIN which won’t expire for another decade.
Maybe people in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet should stop relying on the “Democratic” process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Doesn’t matter. The GOP hold all three branches of government and will do whatever he tells them to do.
Fun thing about the GOP is that they are all rats waiting for the ship to sink. The minute they see that trump is weaker/unpopular among their base, they’ll jump ship and try to sell him out
They’ll never publicly sell him out, because he’s already attained mythical status to his base.
He is a cult leader, and those around him want that for themselves. They know he’s old and just all want to be the one he hands the cult over to.
Don’t give me hope
I’m waiting to watch Tea Party 2.0. If donvict dies or in some other way the spell breaks like it did under Dumbya…they’ll pretend they “never heard of her” when it comes to donvict, and you suddenly won’t be able to find any Republicans.
That’s until they find their next China White to mainline. They ain’t gonna settle for the likes of Romney and Jeb, that’s for sure. They’ll need someone even worse than donvict. They went from Ronnie Raygun - who was just fucking awful already, to W (arguably worse, though he probably did less damage than Ronnie Raygun), to diaper donvict.
I don’t know how viable that actually is, a decade of Trump flags and Trump shirts and Trump merchandise, and decades of Trump branding everywhere before that. The Trump cult is in too deep.
The GOP winners will probably be the ones that poach the Trump brand as “we are Trump’s chosen ones to carry out Trump’s vision for America”, until his cultural significance wanes.
I honestly think there will be spontaneous dancing in the streets or wherever people are at if they learn of donnie’s passing.
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.
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.
And the VP is already third in command. Fifth if you count Putin and Thiel.
His death would provide America’s favorite gender-neutral toilet, so that’s something.
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
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
Note approval ratings in the USA start with Truman so this is the lowest approval rating period.
Trump about to ban the Telegraph in the US
Trump about to add 50% tariffs to the UK in retaliation for this story.
It’s like a bingo game, but a new one starts every 120 minutes
We’re fine with kicking out all the Mexicans but don’t you dare call that water something else. Classic America.
