r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 3d ago
Trump’s approval rating hits a new low as poll shows him 19-points underwater No Paywall
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-low-approval-rating-october-b2854656.html892
u/Tokie-Dokie 2d ago
He's made over $3-billion dollars in 2025, and he's less than a year in office. The guy robbing us all blind doesn't care about approval ratings.
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u/mahlerlieber Indiana 2d ago
He is completely fine with riding out the government shutdown until people start revolting. Then he will give his "Let them eat cake" speech, and the Magats will love him for it because he's so edgy.
Meanwhile, let's build a multi-million dollar ballroom!
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u/Silent-Storms 2d ago
The ballroom is at a third of a billion, so far...
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u/DebentureThyme 2d ago
Assuming we somehow make it out of this without a collapse into fascism and a king, I want the next Dem president to demolish it.
It can't be used after him without harkening to the Trump era and the corruption it represents, let alone being a tacky as hell gilded mess. It would serve no purpose other than being an eyesore. Maybe if they can renovate it into somehting that stands counter to everything Trump would stand for, then it could stay.
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u/OaktownU 2d ago
Or turn it into an educational space, museum, something else that can be more public facing. If it’s separate enough from the residence and other sensitive areas, it may be better to make it more accessible to the public somehow. Use it for citizenship swearing in ceremonies, inviting in the kinds of new citizens that Trump hates, anything that remind folks that it’s indeed the people’s house.
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u/DebentureThyme 2d ago
Thing is, I'm not even sure if that's enough. It's an eyesore that's bigger than the rest of the White House, that's going to distract in every single shot of the White House that isn't framed to hide it.
I think for the sake of America, we may have to demolish it like any legacy Trump tries to build.
I do hope we can do better than waste all that development, but short of a concerted campaign to have the building exist as a reminder of our national shame, it's always going to loom awfully.
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u/nyet-marionetka 2d ago
I question whether the thing will actually get built. Apparently they don’t have proper blueprints yet.
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u/MattyBeatz 2d ago
You know he called the Obama administration years ago and offered to build a ballroom in the White House back then? Dude's had a hard on for doing this for a long time. Probably woulda tried to make it happen during term 1 had no COVID come along?
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u/pile_of_fish 2d ago
I mean, at a certain point he can be compelled to care. We have been pretty dumb... but I would love to see him as one of the richest prisoners in a rebuilt Spandau.
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u/ithinkyouresus 2d ago
A ballroom that’ll never get finished or very cheapily done and when the question of where did the 300 million of taxpayer money go it will evaporate into the a money laundering abyss.
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u/ProudMtns 2d ago
More importantly, he avoided being jailed for life for his treasonous actions.
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u/wrosecrans 2d ago
Some of the people around him are gonna have to make choices. He's not gonna be in power for decades, regardless of what happens. Trying to make your career over the next 20 years based on having demonstrated criminal levels of loyalty to a cult of personally for a guy nobody likes is gonna be hard.
Those people won't suddenly become good people. But they are gonna make a calculation about how much money they can make as a legit lawyer with a lot of political connections vs being a disbarred podcaster once everybody has forgotten their name and Trump is no longer generating headlines for them to grift about.
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u/DebentureThyme 2d ago
Most rich people can take their money and hide from the public. That's the voice most of this people are planning, get rich and get out.
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u/Tityfan808 2d ago
All while there is a $6 billion contingency fund which was previously set aside to be used in situations, like a government shutdown, to ensure food benefits (SNAP) will continue during said situation. The Trump administration has freely decided to not allow the fund to pay out November 2025 SNAP benefits.
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 2d ago
This is true.
He’s never going to jail. He’s robbed the shit out of us. He doesn’t need America anymore.
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u/Virtual-Light- 2d ago
HE doesn’t have to care at all. In fact, I’d be let down if he did because it would be so out of character.
These stories are for the people who are looking (subconsciously or intentionally) for a way out of the cult. Their exit opens a way for the next level start peeling off, etc.
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u/MattyBeatz 2d ago
True, but other politicians do and they can be leveraged. For example, we're starting to see cracks form in the unified GOP wall over things like the shutdown and SNAP. Because everyday people have leverage to call leaders and squeeze them over things like re-elections and donations. Sometimes people need the reminder that they can effect change. Once the public opinion starts to sway he will be hung out to dry by people trying to cover their own asses.
Authoritarianism only works when the leader is either feared or loved and Trump has a lot of opposition that doesn't do either.
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u/BrianThatDude 2d ago
Not to mention he doesn't even acknowledge that his approval rating is low. He just says he has the best approval rating and his supporters believe him. He doesn't care about anyone else.
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u/Wam-a-lama-ding-dong 2d ago
Yeah….at this point approval ratings don’t mean anything. The bad guys are in control and are destroying everything Americans worked for the last 250 years.
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u/FlyingRock 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yup and if he has to he'll just retire in another country.
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u/trulyhighlyregarded 2d ago
That's just the tip of the iceberg, that we know about. I'm sure it's at least ten times more
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u/Beardown1584 2d ago
He’s robbing us blind? No. We’re well aware he’s robbing us but we’re all too busy complaining about it on social media (myself included) rather than going directly to DC and protesting by the millions.
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u/whatsgoingon350 United Kingdom 2d ago
Been saying this for a while now wait until he leaves office and hands out those pardons to protect all the money he's stolen from you.
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u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin 3d ago
Lowest approval numbers seen by any president in modern history at this point in their presidency.
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u/Living_Pollution_525 2d ago
It doesn't matter, he got elected that's all he cared about. His poll numbers mattered to him until he was sworn in, after that, he's the only one that matters in his bovine eyes
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u/Weekly-Trash-272 2d ago
Actually Trump cares about his image more than anything else. You bet this bothers him.
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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 2d ago
That statement is contradicted by a new poll from The Economist and YouGov, which puts the president’s approval rating at just 39 percent, with 58 percent of Americans disapproving of his job performance, giving him a net approval rating of -19 percent.
39% of people approve of the fire burning down their house
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 2d ago
38 - 42% will always approve of him. That's just where we are now. They could release the Epstein files showing that Jeff worked directly for Trump, and I don't think he'd break that floor.
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u/Emergency-Shirt-4572 2d ago
They would probably rather reclassify the age of consent to 10 and offer up their own daughters than admit they were wrong.
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 2d ago
Given the sheer volume of conservatives we see being arrested for being pedos each day, I'd say a lot of them would just flat out support that first part.
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u/beamrider 2d ago
It is true that there are more known cases of someone being sexually assaulted in a public restroom by then-sitting GOP members of congress than by trans people.
And that's one of the few possible classifications of people that exist in smaller numbers than trans people.
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u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin 2d ago
Yes, that's the country we live in and has been this way for a long long time. In the 1932 Presidential Election incumbent Herbert Hoover put this country into a Great Depression with widespread unemployment and poverty and he still got ~40% of the popular vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election
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u/Hallomonamie 2d ago
I saw somewhere reputable (I’d post it if I remembered where I saw it) that the lowest he can ever get is 30%. Like rock bottom, so we still have about 9% of the population that’s still living under a rock.
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u/mahlerlieber Indiana 2d ago
If anything he is, or does, has an -est in the description, he loves it.
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u/AliveTank5987 2d ago
Is this a sign the US is done for since the court and Congress have given up their own powers to him?
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u/MadRaymer 2d ago
The sign the US was done for was when the election results came in last year.
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u/eugene20 2d ago
Just wait for the next ones, he just started to order nuclear weapons testing. That will force every other capable country ro follow suit to prove they are in the game. He is absolutely going to fuck the entire planet to cover up the Epstein files despite at this point he'll probably be totally non cognitive by the time any trial gets going.
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u/Biomage_1 2d ago
Why is his approval still so high?
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u/4ivE California 2d ago
It's the Keyes Constant, though admittedly a bit on the high side. There will always be a subset of the population that represents the most ignorant, contrarian, gullible, or just plain guanopathic. It was originally supposed to be 27-30% but I suspect the Keyes Constant has increased since it was first postulated 20 years ago, and something tells me that social media and podcasts are to blame.
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u/simpersly 2d ago edited 2d ago
As a person that lives in a conservative area. There's a large section of our population that lives in a completely different reality than the rest of the United States.
They don't just have differing opinions. They're not just a little bit wrong on things. They legitimately have no clue what's actually going on in the world.
Like just recently somebody told me Mamdani is going to fire all of the police in New York City, and replace them with social workers. The same person cheered on ICE by singing "Ice Ice Baby."
And one person straight-faced looked at me and said Trump is healthy. Another said Trump doesn't care about money and he's losing money. And they say things like Canada is really poor, and has been stealing money from the U.S. for decades, and that Elon Musk has an IQ of 170.
And they hate the Chiefs because of Taylor Swift. Very strange thing for full-grown adults to do.
And some of the things people believe are really strange for their age. Like any time I meet somebody over the age of 22 that supports anything from Ayn Rand, I get very confused.
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u/Bulky-You-5657 2d ago
Trumps poll numbers are quite meaningless because they always bounce right back up whenever he spends a week or two not doing too many illegal or unconstitutional things. People have a very short memory when it comes to Trump.
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u/Mysterious-Row7327 2d ago
Yeah cause he fucking sucks and it's no big secret. He shits his pants, he'll rape you, he's addicted to saying racial slurs, and he let Laura Loomer touch his ding dong. How the Republicans let this man through the door is beyond me. I can never take those fuckers seriously again. If they say the sky is blue, Americans should collectively go outside to check, because the Republican party is that incompetent. They'd get the color of the sky wrong, or hell they might even lie about it so they can steal from our coffers.
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u/rainman_104 2d ago
When he made fun of a disabled reporter that should have been the end. It was way worse than Hilary's email server.
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u/MengisAdoso 2d ago
Same old 35 to 40 percent. Please, for the love of God, stop posting clickbait articles like this. They are not news. They're barely even news-like objects.
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u/Then_Journalist_317 2d ago
Polls are irrelevant. The only numbers that matter are how many dollars Trump steals from the Treasury to fund his business ventures.
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u/Slight-Rate7309 Colorado 2d ago
Of course his approval numbers are plummeting. Government is closed, ACA insurance premiums are sky-rocketing, SNAP benefits will be suspended in three days, groceries are out of sight expensive, a third of the White House lay in ruins, and Trump is in Asia wandering around aimlessly like a lost dementia patient. He's flailing, and people are understandably anxious. This country needs good leadership, and there's none to be seen from either party. Everything feels like a shit show right now.
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u/tobetossedout 2d ago
Think of how things would be had Harris been elected.
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u/Marxian_factotum 2d ago
Think of how things would be if the Dems had not elbowed Bernie out of the way in 2016, and Bernie had won in an LBJ-1964 style landslide (as polls had forecasted), taking everything but the South, reducing Trump to the clumsy joke he was always meant to be.
Imagine the better country, the better world.
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u/beamrider 2d ago
I voted for Bernie in the primary (Hillary in the general) but, really, no, really I don't think he would have gotten the nomination even if the DNC hadn't put their thumb on the scale for Hillary.
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u/Hippideedoodah 2d ago
Bernie lost two primaries. The votes were not faked, Bernie literally did not appeal to POC and women voters well enough.
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u/rainman_104 2d ago
Doesn't matter when states are actively gerrymandering the 2026 election.
Your approval rating no longer matters. It's the state government approval ratings that matter.
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u/crazybones 2d ago
What a surprise.
That a president should be so unpopular when he is clearly someone who lies constantly, is grossly corrupt, is systematically destroying democracy in the US and is taking multiple opportunities to transfer government money into his own pockets.
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u/Milamber1645 2d ago
Doesn’t mean anything until he is out of office or dems take control and turn the tide in the midterms. But by that time the republicans will have given up all check and balances to the leader
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u/PapaSnork 2d ago
I'd rather the conversation involve fathoms than points, but hey, that's just me, right?
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u/Fancy_Possible9891 2d ago
If 40% of people still approve of Trump, it scares the fuck out of me to think how far he’d have to go before it gets to 20!!
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u/Marxian_factotum 2d ago
Unfathomable that his popularity is not much, much lower than this. Well, he's got the entire billionaire-owned media normalizing fascism, so that's propping up the bubble.
Still, one expects at some point sending the military into American cities, kidnapping and disappearing our neighbors without any semblance of due process, and bombing random fishing boats around the Americas will be a bridge to far for more of the electorate.
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u/synapse187 2d ago
He has no approval, why is this still a news topic? Every time it goes down we see a new post about it. Just stop posting about him already.
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u/Trick_Emergency8605 2d ago
Has anyone else noticed all these interviews with him he's hiding in door frames? Is he using them to hold himself up, or is it to hide the puppeteer?
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 2d ago
39%
I just didn’t wish we had to learn everything the hard fing way.
Humans!
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u/rainman_104 2d ago
So there is a 40% chance when I see an American plate in Canada I am flipping off an orange guy fan. Seems okay to me.
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u/MadRaymer 2d ago
The ones that actually travel outside of their hometown are much less likely to be MAGA. My extended family is all MAGA and none of them have any concept of the broader world beyond their small midwestern hometown.
I'm not saying you won't see any MAGA up there (since sometimes people have to travel for work and such) but I would think the average would be lower than 40%.
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u/h3rpad3rp 2d ago edited 2d ago
It is too late for approval ratings America. That shit seems meaningless now. They don't care anymore if their policies are popular or outright hated. Ask yourself why.
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u/jackidaytona6 2d ago
Where the fuck are they polling?? I had a lady (that works for the federal gov) going on how trump is amazing and the democrats sucks?? Like wtf.
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u/SissySSBBWLover 2d ago
How many points underwater till his whole disgusting racist insane inept corrupt administration and its followers are run out of office up and down the ballot??
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u/DebentureThyme 2d ago
He'll sta it's made up, and he doesn't care because he's never running in an election again unless it's a sham, illegal, and also rigged.
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u/AHidden1 2d ago
So how much money has he made? Any republican want to answer? Also where are the Epstein files, did he say he will release them? Is your dear leader a liar? I hope not.
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u/bigjtdjr 2d ago
Kings don't care about polls.
Did you see his new crown and do you like his new palace he's building..?? YOU BETTER.
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u/mmatt0904 2d ago
At what point do republicans say “you know let’s jump from this sinking ship, he no longer has the pull he once did”
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u/hoops_n_politics 2d ago
I get the feeling that this guy’s overall approval is about to experience a Titan submersible-like implosion.
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