I prefer we start calling it his final term.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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There it is!
Shockingly still 37% approve.
What is going on in the US that 37% of the people look at the current state of the US and the world and go 'this is fine'?
Ignorance, selfishness, racism, etc. etc. etc.
mostly racism
What is going on is that there has been a decades long effort by the conservatives to both demonize and destroy our system of education.
They want it all privatized so they can get around the public having any say in it.
Trying to imagine the yokel that still supports trump. He's literally done everything he said he wouldn't. He has stripped millions of healthcare, turned the economy into an insider trading circus, destroyed credibility with allies, and defunded the programs we used to feed starving children all around the world. And yet, there are millions who support all of that. Disgusting scums.
They support him because of the deportations. That’s it. They are racist, he does the racist things, they are happy.
It's important to remember that for many, they disapprove of him because he isn't KILLING the people they hate.
Eventually he'll decide he needs their vote desperately, and will start to indulge their demands.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
- USA President Lyndon B. Johnson
The people still supporting him just dismiss anything that contradicts their fox news feed and dismiss it as "liberal propaganda". I'd swear they could be tied to a post in front of a firing squad being commanded by trump and they'd go "they work for biden!"
Hey, he is giving us a $400 million ballroom and turned the Persian Gulf into a shooting gallery. What more do you want!?
This same article comes out every week, and it's always either 36% or 37%.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
Every time I see it I check the aggregates. RealClearPolling for the Republican bias, Nate Silver for the Democrat bias. In both cases, the headline seems credible but unremarkable, he's been ticking slowly downwards since he was elected, but in both cases he's also been lower the last time he was president.
Right now, Nate Silver has him at 39.7 while RCP have him at 41.6
According to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll released on Sunday, only 37 percent of adults approve of Trump’s work as president. Meanwhile, 63 percent disapprove, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly. Some of that strong disapproval comes from Trump’s handling of skyrocketing costs for most households: Among the over 32,000 American adults that NBC News surveyed over two weeks in March and April, 52 percent said they “strongly disapprove” and 16 percent “somewhat disapprove” of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living.
The last part is why we'll see the rare Trump threat follow-through on firing the Fed chair. He will install a sycophant to juice the economy with extremely low interest rates, and create a perception of a healthy economy until the midterms pass.
Lucky that there's no downside to overdosing on artificial stimulants.
Seems there's a mandate of citizens not happy with him in the position. I call a vote of no confidenc... oh, right, we don't do that here. Or rather, we give any power of removal to the other representatives, with the assumption that the corruption isn't spread that deep.
37 percent of adults approve of Trump
Oh he's fucked. That's over a third of people that see him fuck up the economy, start random wars, create the USGestapo, and say "Yeah, this guy is doing it right."
This will be the final final nail in his coffin after the gazillion others. /s
A macro reflection of the drug epidemic.
The last part is why we’ll see the rare Trump threat follow-through on firing the Fed chair. He will install a sycophant to juice the economy with extremely low interest rates, and create a perception of a healthy economy until the midterms pass.
Trump can't fire the Fed Chair though. Doesn't mean he won't try, but it would just lead to a year long court battle that the Supreme Court might actually rule against Trump on.
37% of Americans still lack the necessary intelligence to grasp reality.
Every few weeks you see a post like this. If true he would be -23.4 quadrillion percent by now. Impeach it now.
Let me know when he cracks through the floor and plummets into hell.
Would be nice to see him go down in true Trumplestiltskin fashion.
Americans are sick of war, all he had to do was wave that carrot and he duped a LOT of voters.
When will voters learn? Look at their past performance and don't listen to anything they say. They are always full of shit.
- Reagan~ I'm gonna close the border!
- Bush~ Read my lips, no new taxes!
- Clinton~ Universal healthcare!
- Bush~ We're gonna lock up social security and and reform healthcare!
- Obama~ Universal healthcare!
- Trump~ I'm gonna build a big wall!
- Biden~ Universal healthcare!
- Trump~ I'm never going to war!
p.s. yes, I know, bOtH pArTiEs, I'm a Russian spy, etc.
To be fair, the republicans blocked the democrats on all of that. With the exception of Trump’s dumbass wall, the republicans broke their own promises.
Sort of tough to have universal healthcare when republican congresses control the pursestrings.
Trump doesn't care about purse strings. Maybe the next Democrat should try just helping the people in spite of the Congress and Supreme Court?
I'd never vote for trump. Ever. Under any circumstances. I did not vote for trump. Ever. I cannot stand his existence. To quote Tommy Lee Jones:
"I cannot sanction your baffoonary"
Unfortunately he was talking about Jim Carry, and not trump, but I stand behind that quote when talking about trump.
That being said, you say to judge politicians by their past behavior. In his first campaign, he said he was going to build a big wall. Which he did. Nevermind the fact that part of that wall already existed and has been being added to since the 1980s, but he did contract the continuation of that wall.
The problem is, he used cheap labor. He installed pillars to consist of the wall, and these pillars were hollow. They were easily pushed over using one hand, and at the end of the day, everything he built was easily demolished. But he DID have it built.
As far as war goes, I can remember saying in 2024 before the election, that I was unclear if Harris would or would not start a war. Whereas with trump, for all the bullshit he says and does, he's not particularly war minded. In 2024, itdidn't seem like war interested him.
Now I know today in 2026, that statement is very wrong. But at the time of the election it would have been hard to push the idea that trump is a war monger. Nothing he had previously done at that time would suggest war. I would have believed he'd bomb a country repeatedly, but everything we're seeing now, I would have not predicted.
All that being said, the point of this reply isn't pro-trump. It's simply meant to straighten out facts.
Also, Obama absolutely tried to bring universal healthcare. That was the original idea behind Obamacare.
Blame the republicans on that one. They vetod every single decent idea in the original bill.
Is it 0%?
Then it’s too high.
Even at 0%, this is the completely corrupt US we are talking about. He could still control all the levels of government after November.
So the weekly standard then
I never thought someone would make me sympathetic to Iran but here we are. He found a way.
Lowest point so far.
Let him hit Rock bottom then hang him high
What is lower than "pond scum"?
Who cares, it doesn't matter.
Yup. Still the POTUS.
What is that thing in the picture, broedy
does that even do anything other than giving an easy article for all the MSM out there
Fucking morons approving of a fucking moron, more at 11...
(Also a pedophile rapist conman felon)
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Can any one of you explain to me plz, if it's really true that he's impopular, that's he's winning so many awards? Just anyone?