Summary

Donald Trump’s approval rating has slipped into negative territory for the first time in his second term, with 47% approval and 49% disapproval according to Newsweek’s polling average.

Economic concerns appear to be driving the decline, with 57% of Americans viewing his economic moves as “too erratic” and 61% disapproving of his tariff policies.

Trump’s current approval rating is lower than both Joe Biden’s at the same point in his presidency (53%) and Trump’s own numbers from his first term (50%).

Polling shows particular dissatisfaction with his handling of inflation and government spending.

    • MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Americans WILL mind if they start paying an extra $100/mo for power from Canada.

      Oil

      Potash

      Gas

      Etc.

      America got sweetheart deals on all of this, until trump started victimizing himself.

      Dairy? We have health standards the US industry doesn’t want to meet for dairy. THAT is the ONLY reason, it’s not a wide open market. If the US would meet our health standards, they could sell all the dairy they want up here. But noooo! Gotta play the victim.

      Truly; America IS the villian here.

      The facts are the facts. The data is the data.

      Now, America. Go suck your own ducks! We have other markets.

      *I stand by my autocorrect! Suck a bag of waterfoul!

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      The thing you have to keep reminding yourself is just how disconnected from politics the average voter is. We’ve seen 2 full months of every day bringing some new chaos, but for most Americans, the only major things that have happened are:

      1. Elon Musk is firing lots of government workers
      2. Trump is enacting tariffs

      Everything else is just noise to them and they filter it out. Until things really start to affect them directly, apathetic Trump voters who thought voting for him would magically turn the economy back to what it was before Covid are going to assume things are improving (because they already were before the election, they were just in a sour mood and refused to admit it).

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        Exactly. The impact of all those government firings hasn’t hit them yet. The effects will start to be felt in the coming weeks/months.

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          The bigger effects will take years if not decades. Who is going to go into government work when they start hiring again? The salary doesn’t beat industry so the primary draw was always stability. Doge has taken that away and it’ll never come back if Rs and “moderate” Dems remain anywhere close to power.