2d ago

Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

www.theguardian.com

Trump scores poorly on economy and immigration as some fear he is ‘exceeding powers’ and focussed on wrong issues

Americans, including some Republicans, are losing faith in Donald Trump across a range of key issues, according to polling released this week. One survey found a majority describing the president’s second stint in the White House so far as “scary”.

Along with poor ratings on the economy and Trump’s immigration policy, a survey released on Saturday found that only 24% of Americans believe Trump has focussed on the right priorities as president.

That poll comes as Trump’s popularity is historically low for a leader this early in a term. More than half of voters disapprove of Trump’s performance as president, and majorities oppose his tariff policies and slashing of the federal workforce.

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2d ago

Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/26/americans-republicans-trump-ratings-poll

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2d ago

Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/26/americans-republicans-trump-ratings-poll

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"Some fear he is exceeding powers"
Jesus tittyfucking Christ. Ya think?
- It's weird how he can just throw shit around with "executive power" and congress and judges then need to prove this and that. I don't know America's organization/structure, but I'm pretty sure it should be the other way around, where president doesn't have the ultimate power for obvious reasons (abuse as single person) and it has to go through congress first for approval where multiple people check shit up and then approve or deny it. I don't know, it's just bizarre watching the shitshow going on across the Atlantic...
  
  Essentially Congress got tired of having to do actual work because it was taking time away from them soliciting bribes from corporations, which is the profitable part of the job, so they abdicated most of their responsibilities to the president.
  Constitutionally the President doesn't really get to do much except work out the administrative details of everything Congress has ordered him to do. Since Congress abandoned that responsibility the president has a lot more control.
  Trump still doesn't actually have the authority to do most of what he's doing, but he's abusing emergency war time regulations as justification despite this not actually being an emergency or war time. Everybody is just too chicken shit to call him on his bullshit though because then they'd have to own up to all the times previous presidents over the last few decades abused the same loopholes.
  
  it used to be like that before reagan flipped the "conservative" party upside down

Losing. Fucking losing. As in they still have some
Jesus Christ

A narrow majority, 54%, of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is focussed on the “right priorities”, while the president’s numbers with crucial independent voters are much weaker. Just 9% of independents said that the president is focussed on the right priorities – with 42% believing Trump is paying attention to the wrong issues.
So you're telling me that these idiots voted for this guy and are now upset that he's doing what he said he'd do and was obvious to everyone, including democrats, why this guy was unfit to serve?
Frankly, I have no sympathy for a republican with second thoughts now, after he's deporting babies with cancer. You've slept with dogs, you have fleas, and we all hate your guts. The end.
Let's put it this way, they're not so unhappy with him that they're the ones protesting him.

Can't lose what you never had.
- It's hard to put yourself in the headspace of someone who believed in Donald Trump, and it's always surprising what each person's "last straw" was. Like, now that he hurt my business with tariffs, he's suddenly a horrible person. As though he wasn't a felon, a rapist, a bigot, a racist, a misogynist, a pedophile, a despot, an incestuous, traitorous, egomaniacal, lecherous, kleptocratic, lying sack of shit yesterday, but today he's gone too far.
  
  As non American who knew who Trump is, but not much more than that I said "maybe he might make things better as businessman" back during his first term. As I learned more, I quickly realized he is really bad at business, he has no manners and all he did was divide everyone and made everything shit.
  When he was running for second term I was devastated that Trump was elected like I was an American. I knew everything will go to shit. And it did. I just didn't expect he'll manage to fuck things up even more, divide everyone even more and he achieved all this in under 4 months. Also he commit a market fraud with the tariffs along the way and slowly turned America into a Nazi state. That I absolutely didn't expect.

That they had any to begin with is disturbing to me.
- I feel like this speaks to the usefulness of faith as much as it does to the cult-blindness of the damned.

Ok, cool. We're all in consensus that "Trump, Bad". Now what can we do to stop the madness?
- Organize. Resist. Retaliate.

I guarantee you they (republicans) aren’t.

Polls don’t matter. You can lie to them.

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