Nate Silver on Recent Polling: Trump has 'profound problems'

Wednesday, April 01, 2026

While Silver acknowledged rising fuel prices resulting from the conflict are a "big factor" in the president's approval ratings, he wrote that there are also "signs of erosion among his base."

Posted by Corky at 11:33 PM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

NATE SILVER: ".. Trump has profound problems." www.natesilver.net/p/trump-appr ...

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-- Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) Mar 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM

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Wow... only 22 percent of Americans are still in the Cult?

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-04-01 03:47 PM

1 in 5 Americans are stupid. Not good.

#2 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-04-01 03:51 PM

22% is still insanely high.

In any case, he does not have profound problems because they don't plan to worry much about the elections of the future.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-01 03:55 PM

People are catching on the Trump is a viciously dim bulb.

It's taken much, much too long.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-01 04:05 PM

Only 22% of Americans have a *strongly* favorable view of Trump

Many of them can be found right here on the DR.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-01 04:07 PM

Or, maybe just one or two. If you know what I mean. If you get what I'm saying.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-02 12:35 AM

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#7 | Posted by JemimaaSmith at 2026-04-02 01:14 AM

Go away. Or we'll report you to ICE.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-04-02 01:16 AM

We have often wondered just what might happen if someone in cognitive decline ever took over the reins of power in the US and started acting in a dangerous and irrational manner.
Now we know...if he is Republican, they don't care about anything or anyone but their ability to profit off his grifting ways.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-04-02 06:49 AM

People are catching on the Trump is a viciously dim bulb.
It's taken much, much too long.

It's only because they are now affected personally.

They're not catching on. They're suffering. America has become a collection of people who are selfish, hateful and lacking self awareness.

They voted for a CONVICTED FELON and adjudicated rapist billionaire to lower prices on groceries, food and housing, release the Trumpstein files and bring the child rapists to justice, end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza all of which he had no intention of doing.

Everything he has been doing was outlined in Project 2025 from firing minorities and women in the military, massive cuts to social programs to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, destroying TSA, FAA, NWS, CPB, OSHA, EPS, DOE, etc, taking over Cuba, Greenland, Venezuela, etc. but Americans were too lazy to go read it or worse were dumb enough to believe a compulsive liar when he played dumb about it.

America is getting what it deserves.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-02 06:58 AM

The polls don't matter.

Unless Americans get out and vote, and vote out the sycophants, mouth-breathers, believers in UFO and flat Earth, and the phony Christians this country will continue its ride down the toilet drain, with even worse things to happen in 2025 and 2026.

MEANWHILE, RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2026-04-02 08:21 AM

uh, that's 2027 and 2028. Thanks for your attention to this matter...

#12 | Posted by catdog at 2026-04-02 08:22 AM

Unless a minor miracle happens during the midterms he's got nothing to worry about. He's got a congress and SCOTUS that will let him do anything he wants and he can't be reelected so he doesn't have to worry about running again. So what if his base is crumbling, they've already outlived their usefulness to him and he has proven that he does not care one iota about public opinion. He will have stolen billions from the tax payers by the time his term is up and been given immunity from any repercussions, he has already won.

I do hope that I am wrong though.

#13 | Posted by qcp at 2026-04-02 08:38 AM

People are catching on the Trump is a viciously dim bulb.
It's taken much, much too long.

#4 | Posted by Zed

I have a theory...those who are just now catching on are very dim as well.

Those who still choose his agenda are likely greedy, vile and damaged.

Its just a theory.

#14 | Posted by Wardog at 2026-04-02 08:46 AM

People are catching on the Trump is a viciously dim bulb.
It's taken much, much too long.

#4 | Posted by Zed

I have a theory...those who are just now catching on are very dim as well.

Those who still choose his agenda are likely greedy, vile and damaged.

Its just a theory.

#15 | Posted by Wardog at 2026-04-02 08:46 AM

When you read The Stand by Stephen King, this is what happens to the followers of the evil Randall Flagg.

The exodus of disenchanted followers starts off drip by drip, then it becomes a faucet.

Only truly depraved deadenders are the acolytes that remain with him at the very end of the novel.

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-02 08:55 AM

-People are catching on the Trump is a viciously dim bulb.

No, they aren't.

They only care about how things impact them. They've never cared about Trump's IQ. They still don't care.

They don't care about seeing missiles flying around Iran on Fox or CNN. They don't care about body counts.

They see their retirement account balance and what they see when they drive by a gas station.

That's how simple it is. It's got nothing to do with Trump's meanness or his IQ.

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2026-04-02 11:31 AM

Actually Nixon said it much better in #10.

#18 | Posted by eberly at 2026-04-02 11:32 AM

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#19 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2026-04-02 02:48 PM

People are catching on the Trump is a viciously dim bulb.
It's taken much, much too long.

#4 | Posted by Zed

That's because most people are, amazingly, even dimmer.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-02 03:32 PM

Problems????? Is that what they call it?

I'd call it a death wish!

He courts disaster! Like all other losers before him.

#21 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-04-03 06:05 AM

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