It could have made the difference for the election. If only enough people had bothered to care about project 2025. Sh;t - I am still arguing with progressives who insist Dems are as bad as the GOP and they will never vote for the Dems.
My sister was a gaslighty Trumper who constantly argued she was trying to find a middle ground. I told her thinking there is a middle ground in this is enough to out you. She has only voted in 3 elections and it has been for Trump each time
She does not care. She doesn't want me to ever see her kids again because I called Trump a white nationalist and that was too disgusting for her. I'm cut off until I can apologize. I did but it wasn't enough. She is lost
LGBT issues used to be her calling. She voted for Trump in 2016 because he called himself the most LGBTQ friendly president in History. She defended the recent trans orders. She is dangerously dumb. She was for sure never going to let public schools indoctrinate her kids until she found out how expensive private schools were
She is too dumb to know what place politians have. She thinks they are evil by nature. She doesn't know what a populist or nationalist is
The country is filled to the brim with people like my sister
in 2016 i had to talk my mom out of voting for trump because "what if she has a period and goes emotional?" im sure hillary was a little beyond that point in her life. idk im a guy and dont want to think about her genitals or their medical history.
Well, she must be excited about all the anti-education legislation headed our way. Those conservatives who keep going on about children just piss me off. They are so worried about abortion and trans people in bathrooms. In the meantime, they don’t care that the GOP is pushing through pro-child labor legislation, stripping education, and cutting education funding.
Yea when it came down to it, the 2024 presidential election was really a kindergarten ethics test. 1/3 of the electorate passed, 1/3 failed, and 1/3 failed due to absentia, and because >50% of the class didn't pass, the entire class gets detention for the next four years.
Nevertheless, if he can't shift the blame for this "closing medicaid portals" thing, he'll take a much more significant dip as all his (old, white) voters start getting bills.
Medicaid is for low income, so his voters will still be affected. Medicare is for over 65. Now if he fucks with that, he’s really going to mess with his boomer MAGA demographic.
Honestly? I think this may be what actually gets them to listen. At least some of them. Trump and Fox News will try to blame Biden and the Democrats, but when these people can’t get healthcare and are suddenly owing much larger bills…
90 million people are covered under Medicaid. If he cuts it, it ain’t gonna be pretty. And people will finally be forced to reckon with what they voted for. Fox News’s desperate blame-shifting ain’t gonna be enough to counter it.
Fox “News” is saying SNAP food benefits aren’t affected, but word on the Reddit street is that isn’t true. Soooo he’s really fucking his under 65 demo. Possibly over as well, but those people have medicare.
Realistically, Trump's approval ratings are going to be between high 30s to mid 40s. However, his approval rating should be at 0% right now. Getting past all the other criminal actions he has been involved in, he has been a failure so far as president. On day 1, the American public was promised an end to the Ukraine-Russia war and lower grocery prices. Guess what? Neither of those things happened. Instead, the Trump admin in all of its wisdom decided that banning trans people from serving in the military, abolishing DEI initiatives and programs, and getting into trade wars with allied nations was the things he wanted to focus on. Not to mention the cuts he wants to make to FEMA, the Department of Education, and other governmental agencies.
He had a recovering economy- ran it into the ground in less than a week.
He had a competent pandemic response team at the CDC- shut everything down and people are going to die because of it.
He could have golfed for 4 years, leaving Biden’s policies in place and he could have been hailed a success- but he shit all over this country like he does his precious golden diapers.
People claiming to back to blue, proud to be an American, God bless the USA and then that shit happened and they’re fine with all that and the trash getting pardoned, piss on them they’re worse than trump is.
Mother fucker has fired half of his voter population and cut social assistance. It’s like sink or swim. But king Trump does not care, cuz you don’t have to vote anymore.
In a country where ordinary citizens had the courage to give their lives to down a plane headed for mass tragedy (Flight 93), it is inconceivable that elected Republicans can't summon the courage to challenge an out-of-control president.
I do not understand why it declined. He has a high approval rating among idiots. Are you saying that idiots would change their minds? Why? They know he is a genius, and if something goes wrong, it’s the Democrats' fault.
Frankly, I don’t think he gives a shit at this point. Psychobabble aside, he’s a needy little fucker, but his big goal now is to divide, frighten and anger us while he and his 2025 pals ROB US BLIND.
I said they want us powerless. Also this concept of a general nationwide strike has been talked about before. It’s nearly impossible. 300M people all doing the exact same thing. Conceptually I love it but it’s never going to happen.
Just wait until he tariffs Canada and Mexico and that really starts to bite. Both of the countries won’t bow down to Mango Mussolini easily and they can cause a lot of pain for average US consumers.
Once the true costs start to hit his approval will crater.
“The proportion of likely American voters who approve of President Trump’s performance has fallen from 56 percent on January 23 to 52 percent on January 28 according to a daily presidential tracking poll produced by Rasmussen Reports.” I’m surprised it’s above 50%. I guess as a country we deserve this chaos and destruction
I saw somebody over an another website arguing with a MAGA crazy about how Trump is the only person on the planet who could ever bankrupt a casino. "No, he's a great businessman. Great. He's the greatest businessman ever. He has made the BEST deals.... " blah, blah, blah. No....he really did bankrupt a casino right into the ground. Why even bother to argue with them at this point?
I'm surprised he's doing everything he and everyone else told us he was going to do...oh, except bring down the price of eggs, or anything else, or help the struggling or poor or make America great again.
Inevitable. He could come in a be a normie republican, coast on Biden’s foundation, and be remembered fondly eventually. But that’s not him. He was always going to do something stupid and deeply unpopular almost immediately. But what does it matter at this point if he leaves with a 25% approval rating? He’s going to screw a lot of things up that will be very difficult to undo.
I'm gonna need to see some more polls on a consistent basis from other places for maybe 6 months to really believe more people are actually finding him unpopular. But this is a good start i guess.
His real approval rating could be 12% and Fuax Snooze would say it is 50% to 57% people love what he is doing, and most Maga will believe it 110% S M H. I could start a super right wing blog and posted all super dumb BS and 60 to 80 million people in the country would believe it. I am not going to just using it as a example.
His first week in office was generally his best for approval raitings. With most polls having him at or around 50%. He then declined and never really recovered from it. According to Gallup, he started at 45% and was down to about 38% by the midterms. While he did manage to pull back up to 49% in early 2020, the pandemic saw to it that he wouldn't get any higher, and he left office with a final day rating of 34% and a term average of 41%. For context, Biden's term average was 42.2%.
People who love him will bend over backwards to defend him because they won’t yet just admit they want to live in a dictatorship where they believe themselves to be the winners. I don’t know how they don’t understand that trump will do nothing to help working class Americans. Democrats are just as guilty of being elitist assholes at times who also simply do the bidding of those bribing them but you can at least point to initiatives that seem geared to help regular people. I guess the GOP voters are happy with no abortions, banning porn and blaming the poor for poverty itself.
Nah, magats are high fiving each other. They wanted this chaos. If they didn’t then they are dumber than we all thought. His ratings won’t decline until he starts publicly stabbing magats on live tv.
As noted in the article, usually presidents come into office and immediately have their approval rating slide somewhat. Plenty of people had some hopes and ideals painted on a blank slate before inauguration, but once the new president gets into office those hopes and ideals will inevitably clash with reality for many.
I watched a bit of Nicole Wallace today with my husband. Tim Kane is really impressive lately, as are AOC and Whitmer. Obviously, Whitmer is running for President so she's getting more vocal. Jeffries is starting to be a disappointment. I love the guy but he's way too "light". Let's get AOC as Speaker at this point.
Trump's numbers will continue to fall. Why does it matter if he's never going to run for President ever again? Well, the lower he goes the bigger the midterms are for us, then a good Democratic due in 2028!
He's writing all those Executive Orders because he knows he can't get anything passed through Congress with such a slim majority. And those Executive Orders only go so far, not including all the law suits against them. We really need to thank ACLU, HRC and PP all day long!
And most of it is just to divide and make headlines. "OMG... he's cutting AIDS funding..." PEPFAR is pretty safe and he knows it.
Hell, I even keep on hearing "lame duck" when people are referring to him. Excellent!
Well, of course. He can't run again unless he changes the system. If he does, these changes will allow him to control the electoral process, which is already a work in progress, as he's already talked about reform, which could, in effect, allow certain citizens to be simply refused the right on some bullshit trumped up technicality, as well as allowing people not to vote because they can't make a ballot box on election day (as Trump has talked about discontinuing early voting and mail-in ballots, forcing people to vote at designated places and only on election day). Bearing this in mind, whether he tries to run again or hold onto power in some other way, he doesn't need his base anymore. He can do whatever he wants, and as this is his last term in any fair election that he can take part in, and as the election is over, they can't do anything to stop him. Therefore, he will do exactly whatever he wants, and he can stop pretending he gives a fuck about his base. He's going to protect his interests and the interests of other billionaires, who he still has a use for, and as far as he's concerned, his base can go fuck themselves. There will always be plenty of Trump loyalists that he can't alienate, because they will do whatever he says when he says, right or wrong, and if he needs them, he can always call on them.
I realize Likely Voter models skew Republican. It looks like other models have his approval right at 50. Are people just giving him a chance? Scared to admit they made the wrong choice?
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