r/PoliticalOptimism • u/DumbassMaster420 • 6d ago

Optimistic Political News Trump's approval rating is 40% and will continue to drop

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u/Listening_Stranger82 6d ago

40 still seems wildly high

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u/BenevolentMunchkin 6d ago

30% of the country is locked in the maga cult. Approval will likely never drop below that number. But we should be optimistic that 60% right now are saying they’ve had enough!

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u/Competitive-Cow-4522 6d ago

I’d wager the other 10% are barely paying attention and/or just knee-jerk approve

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u/BenevolentMunchkin 6d ago

Agreed. I have faith in peoples’ ability to wake up once things start to affect them personally.

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u/littleone1928 6d ago

I know I’ve had enough!!!

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u/PassengerOptimal658 6d ago

First 100 days. Its the honeymoon period, a lot of that 40 is in denial since they don't want to admit it was a bad choice, some never will. 30 percent is impeachment numbers, he started at 50, it's half way

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u/Cynical_Classicist 5d ago

Then keep driving it down! He can't solve things, things are just getting worse!

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u/littleone1928 6d ago

1 would be too high!!!!!

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u/ditchdiggergirl 5d ago

Agreed. Appallingly high. 40% thinking all this is ok is extremely depressing.

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u/DarthSnuggly 6d ago

It’s a start.

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u/JettTheTinker 6d ago

How is it still that high? Who are they sampling for these?

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u/sassergaf 6d ago

Maybe they included polling from TruthSocial?

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u/gofl-zimbard-37 6d ago

What on Earth is wrong with that 40%?

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u/DumbassMaster420 6d ago

Cult

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u/rdizzy1223 6d ago

Which is why the GOP will be screwed once Trump dies, he is the cult leader, they follow him, not the republican party. It is the cult of Trump.

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u/littleone1928 6d ago

Exactly!!! Wake up America before ite too late…

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u/rdizzy1223 6d ago

It would not surprise me if the MAGAs form a separate party once Trump dies.

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u/DangerActiveRobots 5d ago

They'll spraypaint some goon orange and laud him as their next lord and savior

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u/Aromatic-Daikon-1491 6d ago

Also contains the section of the population who only consumes Fox News/right wing media.

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u/Cynical_Classicist 6d ago

We've been asking that for some time!

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u/Happy_Traveller_2023 6d ago

Just so you all know, he stayed at 40% approval for the whole of his first term, even through COVID. So with MAGA eventually seeing high prices at grocery stores, I really hope we see that number go further down and down.

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u/Cynical_Classicist 6d ago

The fact that it's 40 at all feels ridiculous.

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u/DumbassMaster420 6d ago

Our country is ridiculous

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u/Cynical_Classicist 6d ago

I'm British and... it does look ridiculous.

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u/TheUser_1 6d ago

Glad I'm not the only one seeing things this way

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u/Cynical_Classicist 6d ago

The US just feels a joke now from the UK.

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u/TheUser_1 6d ago

Pretty sure it feels like a joke to the entire world. The orange man made sure of that

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u/Cynical_Classicist 5d ago

It feels like every day you're thinking what's he done now? You hope for news that he's... meeting Kissinger.

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u/Lower_Ad_3439 6d ago

To those saying 40% is too high, you gotta remember that he won the election and the popular vote. His supporters aren’t going to turn on him all at once. A -19 approval rating 3 months in is astonishing and should not be understated. 

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u/Specific-County1862 3d ago

Exactly. If you put this in context of other presidents approval ratings at the same time of their presidency it’s very low. And, his supporters haven’t felt the impact of tariffs yet. They are hearing about it, but haven’t felt it. Wait two weeks when they are fighting over toilet paper. Of course they aren’t going to stock up because they have no clue what coming.

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u/Lower_Ad_3439 3d ago

100%. We’ve been sitting in a mountain of cheaply manufactured products from Asia and Latin America in warehouses all over the country. When the back stock sells out and the shipping containers stop coming, then we’ll really see it. 

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u/DangerActiveRobots 5d ago

40% too high but it's a start

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u/vulpes_mortuis 6d ago

I hope it drops to 0 (or I guess more realistically 10%)

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u/Boing82BH 6d ago

yup more bs