As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new polls released this week shows him and his policies at remarkably high, and in some cases record, levels of unpopularity. Across nearly every major measure, Trump is generating more backlash than loyalty, deepening distrust as his personal standing continues to slide.
A new CNN poll released Friday found that nearly 60 percent of Americans describe Trump’s first year back in office as a failure. Trump is faltering even on issues that have historically been his strongest, like the economy. A majority of Americans (55 percent) say he has made the economy worse, while just 36 percent believe he has focused on the right priorities—a nine-point drop since the start of his term. CNN also found Trump’s overall job approval rating languishing at 39 percent, down from 48 percent last February. A clear majority say he has gone too far in using presidential power. You can read the full results here.
CNN’s numbers are not outliers. A new Associated Press–NORC poll, released on Thursday, shows erosion even within Trump’s own party. Only 16 percent of Republicans say the president has helped “a lot” with the cost of living, down sharply from 49 percent in April 2024. Trump’s approval on immigration—still one of his strongest issues among Republicans—has slipped as well, falling from 88 percent in March to 76 percent in the latest survey. Overall, just 38 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of immigration, a marked decline, while 61 percent disapprove. Across the poll, voters say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities, abusing power, hurting the economy, and leaving the country worse off. The survey marked his lowest approval ratings on the economy reported by AP pollsters during both stints in the White House.
Other surveys this week echoed the same themes. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Trump deeply underwater overall, with 58 percent disapproving of his job performance and just 36 percent approving of his handling of the economy. The poll also found overwhelming opposition to Trump’s foreign adventurism, with 71 percent saying the use of military force against Greenland would be a bad idea. Meanwhile, a Marist poll released Friday found that 56 percent of Americans oppose the United States taking military action in Venezuela.
I can’t see it making a difference, they will still vote red no matter who.
Biden won in 2020 because of this. It does make a difference.
Republican/MAGA voters never achieve introspection. They’ll never connect the dots on their unwarranted loyalty to a party that despises their existence and their own suffering. They’ll always fall for the next scapegoat. Hatred triggers their lizard brain to override reason.
From what I remember Biden won with a small margin in 2020 (I remember messaging my American friend about this before the votes were fully tallied).
Trump is a symptom, the cause is American society (not only the far right, much of the centre-right voting public too).
With these dems nazis overthrowing representative government in all but name is an inevitability.
With popular reform we could take it from them.
I’m sure whatever lovely Democrats get in will fix all this stuff. They totally won’t take advantage of the power this regime has granted to the few, when they are the few.
Some people will, but not enough for him to hold power. Trump wasn’t elected by MAGA, he was elected by the people who couldn’t afford to live, but were being told by the Democratic party that everything was fine. Including more gen z than we’d like to admit.
Now trump is trying the same strategy, and he knows that come midterms, all those same constituents are going to vote against him. That’s why he’s been pulling out all the stops to prop up the economy for another year. He doesn’t care if it means 15%+ inflation, as long as people don’t blame him for a tanked stock market.
Better red than dead, living in poverty, in a police state, with no rights, and no checks and balances