63% Disapproval | Drudge Retort

Sunday, April 19, 2026

President Donald Trump's job approval rating has sunk to a new low as Americans express growing concerns about rising costs and the war with Iran, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. Overall, 37% of adults approve of Trump's performance as president, while 63% disapprove -- including 50% who said they disapprove strongly -- putting his job rating at the lowest point of his second term in NBC News Decision Desk polling.

Posted by retort at 11:23 AM | 24 COMMENTS | permalink

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How will Mr Toad TACO get himself out of this mess?

Stay tuned next week for another episode filled with a firehouse of lies and 2 week ultimatums.

As long as he can lie and PRETEND everything is going just fine then the stocks hold up and the money will keep rolling in. For the millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil. Not for you.

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-04-19 11:34 AM

Firehouse = Firehose.

Thx Siri.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-04-19 11:35 AM

Donald Trump is the worst president of the United States, and the worst man to be president of the United States.

These things have always been true. Now, finally, people see that wreck of a humab being for who he is.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-19 11:39 AM

What will it take to change the opinion of the 37%???

#4 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-04-19 11:43 AM

"Respected, like never before!"

#5 | Posted by anton at 2026-04-19 11:43 AM

" What will it take to change the opinion of the 37%???"

22K PSI from a 38?

#6 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-19 12:03 PM

What will it take to change the opinion of the 37%???
#4 | Posted by TrueBlue

Only two things have ever changed their minds:
1. Being a black.
2. Being a woman.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-19 12:14 PM

"Firehouse = Firehose"

Actually the correct equation is this:

Minutemen - D. Boon = fIREHOSE

#8 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-19 12:33 PM

Americans are stupid or fickle or both.

( fickle - I do like that word.)

#9 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-04-19 12:40 PM

Consider that, on average, of the ten US adults near you right now, four might be for Trump.

Location, location, location.

#10 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-04-19 12:49 PM

37% approval is absurd.

Thr level of abject stupidity it takes to support this shouldn't be present in more than 20% of the population.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-19 12:59 PM

If you look at the poll, any statistically significant movement is on the extremes.
Only the "Strongly Approve" is down, and only "Strongly Disapprove" is up. And it all happened since last August.

The size of the middle chunk, the roughly one-third of respondents that "Somewhat Approve" and "Somewhat Disapprove" hasn't really changed over time.
I do have to wonder if these are the people who don't vote...

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-19 01:14 PM

Then there's this:

Q11: In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with:
3/30-4/13
The Israelis 50%
The Palestinians 50%
www.documentcloud.org

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-19 01:18 PM

@ If you look at the poll, any statistically significant movement is on the extremes."

I would conclude that the extremes on both sides of the political spectrum are the ones most likely to participate in these types of polls.

#14 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-04-19 01:18 PM

I would conclude that the extremes on both sides of the political spectrum are the ones most likely to participate in these types of polls.
#14 | Posted by NerfHerder

Check out question 7 from the link in #13. And then starting around Q30.

But to your point, polls like this are not deeply accurate, just a finger in the wind.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-19 01:22 PM

63% Disapproval

And yet, a significant # of his enablers will still be reelected come November.

#16 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-04-19 03:16 PM

Minutemen - D. Boon = fIREHOSE

#8 | POSTED BY NERFHERDER AT 2026-04-19 12:33 PM | FLAG:

Funny. Glad to see I'm not the only one whose mind went there immediately.

#17 | Posted by cbob at 2026-04-20 07:12 AM

Doesn't matter. Der Dotard's words and deeds are so off-putting that many voters, of all stripes, will simply ignore the election this fall--if one is allowed to take place. With the present administration and its GOP MAGA acolytes in place the election will be a mess. Here in Ohio there is talk by the GOPers running to be secretary of state of HAND-COUNTING PAPER BALLOTS. Want election results before the cows come home? Nope. Hand accurate counts not manipulated behind closed doors? Nope again in Ohio...

#18 | Posted by catdog at 2026-04-20 08:38 AM

He would have to open the borders and embrace DEI.

#19 | Posted by SirRudolf at 2026-04-20 11:35 AM

What will it take to change the opinion of the 37%???

He will continue to lose some of the 37%.

However the millionaires and billionaires that are laughing all the way to the bank from the tax scam and no-bid contracts that gives them a piece of the pie will support him no matter what.

Then you have the racist inbred homophobes that will love him until the day they die no matter how much the lose personally due to his policies and grifts.

They are never going to turn on him.

Just like the people in the red states that rank annually among the worst for jobs, education and health care under GOP controlled legislatures and governors who continue to vote for the GOP.

I was reading about the people in the instrument mfg company in Ohio who are losing their jobs to China who feel betrayed by the Trump loving owner and Trump and who are BEGINNING to question their support of him.

You can't fix stupid with duct tape.

#20 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-20 12:35 PM

Well, that does it, I'm not voting for him again...

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-04-20 09:02 PM

You'll vote for him in 2028.

Should Trump live that long.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-04-20 09:09 PM

#20 Nixon says, "You can't fix stupid with duct tape."

'Tis true.

But you can contribute to the betterment of the human condition by liberal use of said product.