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#8 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-01-29 11:11 AM
"Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,245 likely voters between January 21-23, and asked a very simple, straightforward question "Who do you trust more?" The choices were Donald Trump, the news media, or not sure. A plurality of 44 percent chose Trump. Only 41 percent chose the news media. Fifteen percent were unsure."

Whatever you think the "news media" is now - does social media and podcasts, where people get their "news" "fed" to them, count? - the "news media" has been polling less and less trustworthy for decades, so this "simple" poll - comparing new President to "something" most people don't have high opinion on and care about even less - in first days of Trump's "honeymoon" period is not only meaningless ("simply" designed to show Trump "winning" SOME poll - talk about bias!) but isn't at all favorable to Trump! 56% said he is not trustworthy, and that's compared to "news media" which usually polls in low 30s - latest 2024 media poll showed 69% have no or little trust in "major" news media.

Now Reuters/Ipsos poll just few days later (and still not "full Trump") Jan 24-26:
|------- Americans disapprove Trump's early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
The poll had a margin of error of about 4 percentage points.

"While it does seem Trump is getting a honeymoon to some extent, his numbers are still not impressive by historical standards..."

During Trump's first term, his approval rating hit as high as 49% during his first weeks in office but he closed out his term at 34% approval.

It may be too early to evaluate whether Trump is squandering his political capital... But the poll shows that many of his early actions have been supported only by his hardcore base. ...

Only 25% of respondents supported renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. 59% of respondents, including 30% of Republicans, opposed Trump's moves to end federal efforts to promote the hiring of women and members of racial minority groups. 59% of respondents - including 89% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans - said they opposed ending birthright citizenship.

Public is split along partisan lines on billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's most prominent ally. 75% of Republicans in the survey said they had a favorable view of Musk, 90% of Democrats said they had an unfavorable view.

50% of poll respondents said the country was on the wrong track when it came to the cost of living, compared to 25% who said it was moving in the right direction. The rest said they weren't sure or didn't answer the question.
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So early polls are not great now and a lot of time to go down from here (as they tend to do with Trump) particularly because he can't do much about the economic issues the public really worries about (consumer confidence dropped and other numbers this week were not good and well below expectations)... not that he cares anymore. But the GOP at some point might.
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#26 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine
And look how much he's managed to do with such little support?

Presidents, especially "lame ducks" who just escaped prison time and are looking for revenge, "don't need no stinking support" to do the damage they are allowed (or even not allowed, but to be adjudicated later) to do by law. "Stroke of the pen - law of the land!" - Paul Begala on Bill Clinton's EOs.

Makes everyone that came before him seem ineffectual by comparison.

You are confusing "hyperactivity" with effectiveness and positive (in normal sense of the word) results - welcome to ADHD / Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder!

"Effectiveness" or "effectively" don't inform about the direction (positive or negative) or give a comparison to a standard of the given effect.

Quantity of activity doesn't imply quality of results. It's true that, in some cases, "quantity has a quality of its own" - presidency is clearly not that case.

Spitballing out loud, worse yet rashly acting on, dumb ideas that his "best people" provide to him, are signs of HD, not sound judgment. That's how Trump run into the ground and bankrupted nearly every business (including real estate and gaming), while stuffing his own pockets - yet still was broke until Mark Burnett (current US envoy to UK) stumbled onto him for "unreality TV" show Apprentice:

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#38 | Posted by boaz at 2025-01-30 03:02 PM
I don't know where you ... are getting your "polling" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Gallup poll:

At 47%, President Donald Trump's initial job approval rating for his second term is similar to the inaugural 45% reading during his first term, again placing him below all other elected presidents dating back to 1953. Trump remains the only elected president with sub-50% initial approval ratings, and his latest disapproval rating (48%) is three percentage points higher than in 2017, marking a new high for inaugural ratings.

Trump's current job approval rating, from Gallup's Jan. 21-27 poll, is not significantly different from the 51% readings earned by George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan in the early days of their presidencies. However, initial evaluations of Trump differ in that Americans are much more likely to disapprove of his performance rather than have no opinion, as was the case for the elder Bush and Reagan.

John Kennedy had the highest inaugural approval rating, at 72%, followed closely by Dwight Eisenhower and Barack Obama, who both had strong starts with 68% readings. Jimmy Carter received a 66% approval rating, while Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and George W. Bush had ratings between 57% and 59%.

Although Trump's latest rating is weak compared with past presidents' initial readings, it is among the best he has received as president. His personal high point during his first term was 49%, which he earned on several occasions in 2020.

Trump averaged 41% approval in his first term and is the only president not to receive a job rating of 50% or higher at any point in his presidency. He left office in January 2021 with the lowest rating of his presidency, 34%, after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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#47 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-31 05:05 PM
I'm sure Trump is worried about his approval rating while he loots the nation and kills civil rights.

He doesn't give a damn... but Dems should - Dems / Biden / Harris lost to THAT GUY... twice! and nearly 3 times!

Maybe, just maybe there is a reason / lesson there somewhere, that Dems keep not learning? Maybe it's not what THAT GUY does, but what the Dems do [especially when they get the power]?

Because the voters prefer THAT GUY, who they clearly don't like, don't trust, don't respect, to the "best and brightest" of Dem party?

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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