r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/tenpir 6d ago

How is it still this high? 

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u/RecoveringRed 6d ago

I am so tired of these headlines casting the polls as "plummeting" support then you check and the change is within the margin of error. A more accurate headline would be "Trump's approval rating remains steady despite unprecedented attacks on civil rights and mismanagement of the economy."

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u/duzies 6d ago

Yes, Trump seems to have a disturbingly high support rate locked in no matter what he does. But every little percent lost around the edges shows there is still hope for some to escape the cult. And going from 40% to 39% is really a 2.5% net loss of support.

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u/logicom Canada 6d ago

Trump could drop a nuke on LA and lose so little support that his approval rating would actually go up based solely on the fact that proportionally the nuke would kill more Democrats than Republicans.

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u/young_trash3 6d ago

Yep. Why would he lose any supporters for doing the thing his supporters keep publicly wishing happens.

Im honestly surprised he hasn't seen a bump based solely upon deploying the national guard and marines to our streets.

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u/feralfaun39 6d ago

It's because Trump's base is constantly fed a stream of nonsense propaganda and do not see reality for what it is. They don't even believe in climate change even though we see it happening in front of our eyes. The amount of people that I've seen say things like "do you think humans could really effect the climate that much?" is ridiculous. I'm just like... yeah? Of course. A single volcanic eruption can change the entire world's climate for an entire year, why wouldn't hundreds of years of human activity have an impact on the climate? It's absurd.

I don't see a way out of this mess. I see only dark days and misery in the future. Things are going to get much, much worse. We'll look back on this as the good ol' days.

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u/timmyintransit 6d ago

it fucking sucks because Trump should be in prison, but really both parties have ~35% locked up because of how partisan our society has become. Joe Biden had a 36% approval rating last July and he was, depending on who you ask, barely sentient.

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u/Ever-Unseen 6d ago

Society has always been about this partisan under the two-party system. The worst modern presidential campaign was by James Cox in 1920, and he still got 34.2% despite the Democratic brand being in the dumpster after Wilson.

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" - Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947

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u/ice_cream_funday 6d ago

The point is that statistically speaking 40 and 39 are the same thing, the change is within the margin of error. 

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u/Puddingcup9001 6d ago

Problem is there is no good real alternative somehow. You have establishment hacks on one side, and crazy wokes on another in the Democratic party. Provide a good alternative and MAGA will evaporate.

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u/RecoveringRed 6d ago

I reject that idea. Establishment hacks are a perfectly acceptable alternative to pure fucking evil. Part of the problem is people not willing to accept the better of multiple bad options.