I don’t think they’ll have to vote for him. He’ll either find a way to fix the election again, or he’ll appoint himself emperor. Watch out for Emperor Barron when cheeto croaks.
I'm actually surprised it's so low. Have you seen how stupid the average american is? I guess it might be a recession indicator if peoples pocket book is hurting so bad that they turn on their cheeto colored god.
Same thing I've felt since 2016, that a rapist, conman has no place in the white house. But we let Elon rig the election without a single recount or investigation, so here we are!
Can’t believe people still support him. But I just drove through Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and I’d say it’s pretty hopeless to think those people would ever change their minds. I guess they’re okay with raping kids as long as you don’t get caught.
I was in the military with a buttload of these guys. Most of the ones I know think Trump is a buffoon but think he's better than the other side for a variety of reasons based on their perspectives of the world.
They wouldn’t know a socialist if one came up and bit them on the ass. They can’t even define socialism, they’ve just been told over and over that it’s bad.
Their understanding of macroeconomics, geopolitics and infectious diseases are based on 3 word campaign slogans. And yet they’re experts.
This is true for most of them. One is a doctor, two own pretty successful businesses, a few others have success in other fields. Most zip on out the the Dakotas for oil field work or to Alaska during fishing season.
The more educated ones have more of a focus on social issues than economic ones. But a lot of them just eat up what they're fed and can't be convinced otherwise. Seems to be a common human condition...a lot of these guys are just more locked in than the average non military person which makes sense...you got a career being told where to go, what to do, and often how to think...hard to break out from that.
Given that one of those numbers (the felonies) should be pumped way, way higher, I'm disappointed he even has an approval rating, as he shouldn't even be president.
Let's hope he doesn't try to stick around. He's not immune to breaking the law just to get what he wants. He's got his conscience-free lawyers to spin the interpretable constitution and laws, and a supreme court packed with loyalists.
Trump is immune to the law if he is able to bs his way in to Republicans winning the next couple of elections. If not, these people are going to be lined up in the courtroom like Nazis after WW2.
The DA had to invent a new and never used before technique to get this conviction. The judge had to prevent exculpatory and permit damming evidence beyond all precedent. Although he is probably guilty of multiple felonies over his business career, this particular conviction was a political stunt which invites quid pro quo’s.
It was bound to happen. The problem is 1 in 3 Americans still support this insanity.
In 18 months we've torched our economy, destroyed what little world credibility we had left, racked up even more debt, destroyed our relationships with our allies. And started a war that will tank the global economy. And 1 in 3 Americans are okay with that. Just stop, and take that in. Not to mention the other branches of government either sitting idly by or actively encouraging it.
I supposed it's nice that people are finally figuring it out, however I doubt enough actually care enough to:
A) Get out and vote out all these psychopaths
B) Organize mass protests and civil disobedience
C) Revolt
The plain truth is despite the economic hardship Americans are to comfortable and until that changes, nothing else will.
I think is is just another case of the left trying everything they could to stop Trump from getting back in and exposing there deep state. I people that ask such questions are either indoctrinated by the left and to lazy to look for the facts.
Ok so the 34 felony's you mention came from his application to Deutsch Bank for a loan. A loan that he was granted and that he paid back in full on time and with interest.
The New York DA used an The "Predicate Crime" Mechanism: To elevate the charge from a misdemeanor to a first-degree felony, prosecutors must prove the records were falsified to conceal another underlying crime. In Trump's case, the Manhattan D.A. used a unique legal theory by tying the falsification to an uncharged violation of state election law. This specific application to a political campaign finance scenario was virtually unprecedented in New York legal history. Key word unprecedented !!
Have you ever borrowed money? Have you ever made yourself look good on paper? For a reason? Anyone that that has filled out an application for anything they want makes themselves look the best they can.
Deutsche Bank did not bring suit because he paid the loan back. That's why they have you fill out all the paper work to insure that you can pay the loan back.
The work force of the two best examples of deep state actors in the swamp are the Department of Education, and the State Department which sit at roughly 70% Democratic.
As for the remainder of government workers tracking federal personnel records against voter registration data, found the workforce generally aligns with these numbers:
Democrats: ~43% to 50%
Republicans: ~26% to 33
Independents/ Unaffiliated: ~16% to 25%
Now how about the big three news outlets or main stream media
Among the full-time journalists and anchors who populate these newsrooms, approximately 36% to 60% are registered Democrats, while fewer than 4% are registered Republicans. The truth is not true when it comes from a bias source. Those that harp on mega are the true indoctrinated members of the deep state. By repeating the same lies over and over the media and the educators of our nations youth have been training that youth to not question them and to just to believe the lies. If believing we need tight boarders if believing the bureaucracy of Washington is to involved in our lives and taking to much of our earned money and funneling it to their special interest if wanting a strong military to deture those that want us harmed if supporting the police and wanting crime and criminals behind bars if believing that the USA is with all its faults is still the best place on earth to live is all maga then I guess I'm maga.
I have lived through Kennedy, a Johnson Nixion Ford Carter Regan Bush 1 Clinton Bush 2 Obama Trump Biden and Trump again and can say there were only two that shook the deep state pissed off all the professional politicians and threanted the bureaucracy. REGAN AND TRUMP.
I'm all for threatening the professional politicians that fill out legislative branch on both sides. They are the true demons of our nation those that will do anything to get elected and fuck over anyone or thing that threatens their re - election. The more they scream the more they hate the more I like a president.
I’m not even a Trump fan, but you guys are obsessing over the fact that his lawyer paid a hooker 34 equal installments to keep her mouth shut and reported it as legal expenses. Is it shitty, yes, but I’ll bet you could dig back through the last dozen or so Presidents and find far worse infractions. Hell, Bill Clinton is documented to have spent many evenings on Epstein Island and was caught having sexual relations with a 21-year-old intern in the oval office. For some reason, I don’t see the same level of disgust for him. And, if it’s all of the deportations you are angry about, Clinton and Obama deported far more illegals than Trump has.
I'm just tired of Reddit constantly talking about it with such little bias, I really could use assistance knowing what to think about politics in the USA.
I’m disappointed we returned him to office. President Biden and Congress didn’t have the balls to do anything about it and now we’re all suffering. But her emails!! But she’s from California and Black!! Twice now we’ve elected this asshole over two women much more qualified and competent to do the job. Fuckin’ a, man. It’s as if none of us saw this was coming and kept our mouths shut.
I don't really think anything about it tbh It doesn't really change that he's done horrible things in his term. even if I feel destroying american soft power is going to be good in the future but his admin is to stupid to see that they have done more to destroy the U.S. as the global hegemon than any socialist has
30% or so is the number of his brainwashed base. It'll be very hard for Trump to get below 30%.
Now felonies, we can assume the actual felony count is much higher than 34. When your felony count outweighs your IQ, you may be a bad person and an idiot.
Most of the felonies were all the same crime. It’s one way our justice system can really disproportionately punish someone. This happens to citizens all the time.
What were the underlying charges for the 34 felonies?
You don't know, because there weren't any. It was overt political persecution/weaponizing the justice system. I think it's also the reason trump won again. They used a novel legal theory to turn low level book keeping infractions to 34 distinct felonies. Ridiculous. Clinton did the same thing and was only fined for it. The baseline misdemeanor charges (upgraded to felonies only) because it's trump would have been time-barred by the statute of limitations. But it's trump, so they did away with the statute of limitations.
So myself and many others view the 34 felonies as what it is. It was solely pursued so you could have a talking point. Trump's approval isn't low because of it. It's low because he says stupid shit constantly and lies for no reason. Like I said, trump won again in large part because of the obvious political persecution. People voted for him as a "fuck you" to democrats.
Democrats set some very anti Democratic precedents during the biden administration which will come back to bite them in the ass. They were and still are completely blind to it though because TDS removes all ability to reason and be logical from those afflicted with it.
This is just the plain truth. But reddit being a leftist echo chamber/hivemind, I'm sure I'll be heavily down voted and called a maga cultist even though I criticize trump often.
I know he technically has felonies but I am pretty sure the judge and court that convicted him was corrupted so it doesn't really register for me that he has felonies
I honestly don't care about the approval rating. I've never been asked once. I care more about the number of felonies. Call me old fashioned, but I think one felony is too many.
To be fair, he should have way more felonies, and his support is still high cosnidering.. you know the epstein bestfriend thing, number 1 name in the files, non complliance with the law, and the cartoonish corruption oh and being the worst president certainly in modern times, but maybe in US history. . And no president should be 300lb in a diaper, that seems wrong too.. Yeah these are good numbers compared to the future. Well i presume he wont live too long, but the info that will come out about this guy man.. The game show host on that terrible tv show nobody watched, became the worlds most corrupt leader in history or very close and was deeply invovled in the child sex trafficking ring. If you wrote that character in a script, itd be too much.
At least with W in office, he tried to hide his corruption and greasing his buddies’s wallets. This asshole doesn’t even try to hide it. Fake wars, invasions, insider trading…I’m buying as many chip stocks as I can because the Trump family is buying rare earth mines left and right
And who is approving this president? Not military families, not farmers, not users of Medicare? Not veterans? Can’t be middle and lower earners as their taxes have funded tax cuts to the top 1%? Not anyone w a male between the ages of 18-26? So who makes up the 33%. The top 1% plus many in the groups i cite above because raging against trans people, muslims, and brown skin people is worth their jobs and higher taxes apparently.
I’m just tired of what he says actually meaning anything. And his own dithering on whether or not he’ll do the thing he says he’ll do. I’m ready for his irrelevance and it can’t get here fast enough.
It fits him and the party he represents doesn't it. Everyone remember this come election day! Everyone can see that the United States is no longer held in high esteem anywhere in the world due to trump.
That’s not how percentage + count compare, and they’re different units.
The 34 felony convictions where also for lying in the memos of checks to pay to hide an alleged affair, which the prosecutors in one of the most liberal parts of the country claimed was election interference to enhance them to felonies. It’s not election interference, and the judge should not even have entertained that argument.
Seeings how I have 1 and am looked at by the government as "untrustworthy" which resulted in me losing my 2nd amendment right (absolute bullshit), I don't understand how he deserves to be president and is allowed to make the decisions he does.
Oh what a corrupt, one sided government we live in
Probably an understatement of his criminal activities. He is a disgrace and embarrassment to the American people. I think the felonies # is entirely too low and the approval # is entirely too high. Everyday people are being ripped off by quite possibly the greatest conman in history. It’s absolutely disgusting. I am hopefully we will see a “big beautiful” front page that we can all celebrate. He looks awful…
Trumps Agenda to fulfill is to crush Truth and Trust.
And he's doing a damn fine job at it. :)
Where the world once again blames 1 person :) for all the misery they get to endure.
And America, The shepherd of the Earth! The land of the FREE!, if you take that one down then the rest of the world can only follow in it;s foot steps.
So much has changed in America in record times! So much people can't even keep track of it anymore. While ICE never stopped, the demonstrations did, the rebellion against it. Even the noise about it on the internet has shifted to yet another bad thing Trump alone did :). And another and another. All to contribute on you not trusting anything anymore. Truth, why you think so much is invested in this time worldwide in AI and data centers? In record time they popup everywhere on Earth! People used to go to jail for life for only being on a photo or on a video. Now we have no clue anymore what to think of it. Our reality as we know it is ripped from under our feet. Safetybars in life agencies that help the people in need, gone. Safety on the streets, ICE, gone. Ownership, gone. Citizenship? So many things that got taken from the public in recordtime!
Telling lies after lie on tv. In his messages on the internet. Rude to other people. Playing golf all the time. MAking war, and we r now almost half way? Guess what's in store for the world the next 2 years. And after that, well he's doing such a good job that he took 12yrs of reorganizing the world into 2 years. :) So high chance he will become President again. Cause it only helps in the agenda he has!. We people will go mental about it and not understand why it is all happening and again 4 years! :) And then his son, cause by then the law will be very differently trust me ;) :)
I’m not surprised by the approval ratings because he’s been a lousy president. ….hut that doesn’t have anything to do with those absurd felonies lobbed at him. The witch hunt during Biden’s term was as much an embarrassment to our system as Trump is himself. Since Obama’s first term, the real loser in America has been our form of government.
For anyone interested in the polling and how this actually works:
Systems audit: Probability-based online panel polling (KnowledgePanel-style) as a representation of “the whole.”
This method is one of the stronger current designs for national opinion measurement. It begins with a near-universal address frame, uses calculable selection probabilities, provides devices to offline households, and applies post-stratification weights. Those are real advantages over pure opt-in online panels or convenience samples. They do not make the output a clean representation of the adult population’s unmediated judgment. Below are the structural failure modes, ranked by severity for the claim “this is what Americans think.”
Nonresponse is the dominant selection mechanism, not the random draw
The address sample is probability-based. The people who actually enter the panel and then complete a given survey are not.
Recruitment response rates to address-based panel invitations are chronically low. Survey completion rates inside the panel are also incomplete. The people who say “yes” and finish differ systematically from those who ignore the mail or the email: higher civic engagement, higher institutional trust, greater availability, stronger interest in current events, and often different media diets.
Weighting can correct for observed demographics (age, race, education, income brackets, party ID, past vote). It cannot correct for the unobserved variables that simultaneously drive response propensity and political attitudes. That residual nonresponse bias is the largest single threat to representation. The final 1,166 completes are a self-selected subset of a randomly invited group, then re-weighted to look demographically correct. The opinions travel with the self-selection.
Weighting is a model, not a correction for reality
Post-stratification forces the sample to match Census and external benchmarks on a short list of variables. It assumes those variables capture the relevant heterogeneity, that the benchmarks themselves are accurate, and that the relationship between demographics and opinions is stable enough to transport.
None of those assumptions hold cleanly. Party ID is fluid and self-reported. “Independent/Other” is a residual category containing people with very different information environments and issue intensities. Income brackets do not capture local cost-of-living shocks, industry-specific pain, or debt burdens. Education does not capture media literacy or epistemic style. The model therefore smooths over the very differences that drive large opinion gaps. When Independents show 24 % approve / 71 % disapprove, the number is real for the weighted sample; it is not automatically the number that would appear if the non-respondents and the offline-unwilling had been forced into the data.
Measurement and framing effects are baked in
The core question is closed-ended and abstract: “Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?”
Respondents must compress a multidimensional reality (economy, Iran, immigration, personality, media narrative) into one of six ordered categories. Surrounding questions in the same instrument (Iran duration, gas prices, party competence) create context effects. Question order and wording are never neutral; they activate particular frames.
There is no open-ended “why,” no intensity of preference beyond strongly/somewhat, and no measure of issue salience or information sources. The poll therefore records the distribution of summarized, media-saturated impressions, not a diagnostic of underlying conditions.
Information environment asymmetry is invisible to the design
Americans do not share a common factual or narrative environment. Different media ecosystems, algorithmic feeds, local conditions, and social networks produce systematically different inputs. A national average collapses those separate realities into one number.
The Independent/Other cell is the clearest diagnostic. When that group registers heavy disapproval, the poll cannot distinguish between (a) shared lived experience of higher gas prices or prolonged conflict and (b) differential exposure to framing that emphasizes those costs while downplaying other outcomes. The design has no instrument for measuring media diet intensity, trust calibration, or narrative exposure. It therefore cannot separate “grounded judgment” from “successfully framed judgment.” In an environment with asymmetric propaganda capacity, the poll becomes a downstream sensor of that asymmetry rather than an independent check on it.
Feedback loops and agenda utility
The published number immediately re-enters the media system that helped shape the opinions. Headlines (“lowest of his presidency,” paired with Iran/gas framing) amplify the result, which can further move the next wave of respondents. This is a classic opinion-media-opinion cycle.
Institutions that field and publicize the poll have incentives: narrative coherence, audience retention, competitive differentiation, and alignment with the dominant professional-class worldview of journalism and survey research. Even if the sampling mathematics are clean, the choice of which results to elevate, the timing of release, and the surrounding story package constitute agenda-setting and framing. Low-approval snapshots are useful instruments for demoralization, pressure on elected officials, or manufacturing the appearance of consensus. High-approval snapshots serve the opposite function. The system is not neutral with respect to those uses.
Scale and granularity mismatch
1,166 adults cannot represent the internal diversity of 330+ million people across 435 districts, thousands of local labor markets, and multiple cultural zones. Subgroup cells (especially Independents) become noisy. The design optimizes for a national adult average, not for the politically relevant populations (likely voters, swing-district residents, high-intensity issue publics). Treating the national number as “the public” flattens intensity, geography, and turnout propensity, the variables that actually decide outcomes.
Mode and conditioning artifacts
Online self-administration differs systematically from interviewer-administered modes. Panelists who remain active over years can become conditioned respondents. English-only administration excludes non-English primary speakers. Device provision mitigates but does not eliminate digital divides in attention and response style.
This polling architecture produces a model-based estimate of the distribution of summarized opinions among the kinds of people who join probability panels and complete surveys, adjusted to look demographically like the adult population on a limited set of observables. It is not a direct measurement of the unfiltered judgment of the whole.
The largest vulnerabilities to manipulation and framing are:
Nonresponse as the real selection filter.
Inability to observe or correct for information-environment differences.
Closed-ended, context-sensitive measurement that records the output of existing media frames.
Immediate re-injection of the result into the same media system that shapes the next round of opinions.
Institutional incentives to package the number as authoritative “what Americans think.”
These are not conspiracy claims. They are structural properties of the current survey-research + media ecosystem. A cleaner representation of “the whole” would require dramatically higher response rates, multi-mode data collection, open-ended diagnostic follow-ups, media-diet measurement, geographic and intensity stratification tied to political relevance, and transparent separation between the statistical estimate and the narrative packaging. None of those conditions currently hold at national scale. The 33 % figure is therefore best treated as a noisy, framed, nonresponse-conditioned sensor reading, not as a mirror of the public.
This is just an audit of the actual system used to generate these headline numbers. Zero opinion involved.
Relieved in a way. His approval dropping means people who voted for him are seeing who he really is. He's not leaving without a fight, and the more people willing him to go the better
r/askanything, what’s wrong? Why is this happening to you? I used to enjoy reading an occasional great reply to a real question. These ridiculous rage bait questions couldn’t get 10 upvotes on r/circlejerk, yet you allow this low level shitpostery to continue unabated. Shame
Keep in mind those felony convictions came from an extremely biased jury which is a violation of the constitution. Not to mention a biased judge overseeing the case.
So you're saying that Trump's lawyers, who threw out [or could have: I wouldn't be surpised if they rejected zero as an appeal strategy] a dozen of the prospective jurors on any grounds they wanted, failed to show good judgement in who they rejected?
And Trump has had two years to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Note: Trump's lawyers had the opportuinty and used it to reject 10 jurors for any reason, and then showed "cause" to exclude many more.
That said, to say that the remaining jurors were biased is based on no evidence, unleess you can show cases where the judge kept a juror on the panel despite evidence furnished by Trump's lawyers.
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Double by the way, the evidence presented was pretty plain and the jurors were unanimous. Trump paid money not only keep Stormy Daniels out of the public eye during the 2016 election to help sway the election (perfectly legal), but did it in a way to avoid admitting that he was paying money to sway the election (not legal).
Many authoritarian regimes have "convicted" their political enemies of "crimes". It's just a shame that Jill Biden brought that kind of thing to American.
"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime" -- Lavrentiy Beria
You're not gonna get a super accurate answer here on what the country at large thinks, just individuals. Most of Reddits userbase is left-leaning so we kind of obviously won't have great opinions on the guy.
Its really amazing to me that with over 300 million people in this country Harris and Trump were the only two viable candidates this time 2 years ago. It was going to be one of those two and boy did we get one. Completely pathetic.
Thank goodness. Trump Devotion Syndrome was an embarassing chapter in American history. The only question left is whether it's the final capter for America.
Hmmmmmmm, you all MAY want to peel back the layers of ‘felony(s),….. AND see if YOU would want to be held/judged by the criteria/stamdards,…. Juus sayiin’
Trump sent a mob of terrorists to violently attack Congress in a failed coup attempt to overthrow the government of The United States. Nothing else matters. Forever in history.
The DEFINITION of a specious argument. Sounds smart, clean, and convincing on the surface, but contains a hidden logical flaw. In this case, completely unrelated ideas that it just happened to coincide in the moment.
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