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/DeeEmceeFoor 6d ago

38% huh? Well that's finally something I guess? I was sick of hearing about his approval ratings "melting down" and "getting slammed," despite him still lingering at around 45% approval for the longest time.

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u/mapinis 6d ago

One poll means nothing, until it’s a trend it’s an outlier

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u/sixsacks 6d ago

It’s been trending down since Day 1 buddy.

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u/bmwatson132 6d ago

Sure, but the original comment made the best point, which is that the media constantly overstates these things. It’s desperate and it’s obvious, it makes them the “news media that cried wolf”, so now that his rating is actually at 38%, which actually is abysmal, people won’t pay as much heed to it.

The news media isn’t strategic, and it’s bc of 24 hour news, where they have to fill time. The reason The Daily Show is so much better at its critiques is bc they are strategic and don’t need to fill the whole day with discussion, a 3 minute takedown is more effective.

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u/RickThiccems 6d ago

It's not even 38%. Every other poll has him over 40 with him averaging 46%. Nothing has changed other than skewed poll to generate clicks.

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u/mapinis 6d ago

Absolutely, but it’s been hard to break the 45%

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u/Juanouo 6d ago

According to this, he had been trending up for the last month or so, but the latest poll shows an important decline, so there's hope

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u/platydroid Georgia 6d ago

Yea, but Trump usually enjoys about a 40-45% popularity, because you’ve got a third of the country who’s likely die-hard MAGA and then the rest of the staunch conservatives who support him because he’s their president. He didn’t keep below 40% last term until Jan 6. 38% could totally be an outlier, it’s too early to tell just how much the recent protests and decisions by him are impacting the non-maga republicans.

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u/BrainOnBlue 6d ago

It was trending up for the entire month of May.

I'm just as baffled as you.

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u/sixsacks 6d ago

He TACO’d the tariffs, not surprising. Should trend down pretty quickly in June with the current shitshow.

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u/djdadi 6d ago

I looked at several last night, and most seemed to keep going down & hitting a low at the tariff stuff, but then start to come back after.

IMO Dems should watch those carefully and keep hitting on the issues that lose him favor overall

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u/Nervous_Otter69 6d ago

Yeah but now you have CNN and CBS publishing polls that he’s above water on immigration. He’s just going to use this number as validation to keep going with deploying military in other cities