Today marks the one-month mark for the second administration of Insurrectionist-in-Chief Donald Trump, and based on new polling data, the American people are not impressed with what they’ve seen so far from the current Trump administration.
Four new polls — Gallup, Ipsos, Quinnipiac, and Reuters — show that American voters consider Trump to be a failure after a month in office, especially on a key issue: The US economy.
“The Post-Ipsos poll tested about a dozen different Trump policies and efforts, ranging from mass deportation to banning transgender people from the military to shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to pardoning Jan. 6 defendants. All but two were unpopular, by an average of 25 points,” Aaron Blake of the Washington Post reports.
The massive cuts to federal programs and trade tariffs are especially unpopular, Blake adds.
“A big one is the shuttering of USAID. Americans oppose it by 21 points in the Post-Ipsos poll (59-38) and 25 points in the CNN poll (53-28).”
“Another is Trump’s tariffs. The CNN poll shows Americans oppose his tariffs on aluminum and steel by 15 points (49-34), while the Post-Ipsos poll shows nearly 2-to-1 opposition to his 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada. About 7 in 10 Americans think tariffs generally increase the price of products in the United States.”
Even Trump’s policy of mass deportations of immigrants is polling poorly, with Americans saying they oppose deporting “undocumented immigrants who aren’t criminals (57-39), who arrived as children (70-26) and who have U.S. citizen children (66-30).”
In short, CNN polling analyst Harry Enten explained, Trump is “underwater like ‘The Little Mermaid.'”
” Across the four new polls that we have, all of them have Trump in net negative approval rating, and the three in which we have a trend line, we see Donald Trump heading in the wrong direction, swimming upstream,” Enten explained.
Enten also cited the economy, the issue most voters say is their top concern.
“This was one of Donald Trump’s great strengths, now it’s one of his great weaknesses. What am I talking about? Trump’s net approval rating. You go back to his first term, February 2017 – Ipsos, he was at plus-16 points on his net approval, Quinnipiac plus-six. Look at where he is now in Ipsos, he’s eight points underwater on the economy. Quinnipiac four points under on the economy.”
“I honestly never thought I’d see the day in which Donald Trump would be polling so poor on the economy – but that day is here,” Enten added. “As I said last week, inflation ate the Joe Biden presidency alive, and right now it is very much the case that Donald Trump is in danger of inflation eating his presidency alive, because his net approval ratings on the economy are underwater.”
At this rate, Trump will be polling in the 20% range on March 20. And if the trend continues, his approval rating could easily be in single digits by May.
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving asshole.
