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Summary

Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected U.S. president since World War II, except for himself in 2017.

While his immigration policies and government downsizing have support, controversial moves—like ending birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico—face strong opposition.

Economic concerns, particularly rising prices, remain a major issue for voters.

Analysts say Trump’s popularity will likely hinge on broader economic and immigration policies, with potential political consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The fact that he isnt even less popular than his last election scares me. The guy has proven himself time and time again in the spotlight to be evil, moronic, really any negative adjective you can think of, and he still has supporters. More, even. How? *

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

Because people in this country have the memory of a fucking goldfish. I'm sure it's going to drop hard in a week.

[–] Frozengyro 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the thing people are most upset about is renaming the Gulf. What in the absolute fuck?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Trans people are attempting to flee the country fearing for their lives

...and the thing people care about is the fucking Gulf of Mexico getting renamed

[–] brucethemoose 7 points 10 hours ago

That’s the whole point. Deflect real controversy with stupid sound bites.

[–] toynbee 6 points 1 day ago

I need to know the content of the footnote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The how is people who disprove of him being more than willing to allow him to win an election because they say there is no difference between him and his opponent. That is up till he is elected and then they suddenly realize how much worse he actually is.

[–] CharlesDarwin 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the people that believed the trolls and the fake left and the Enlightened Centrists (TM) going on about gEnOcIdE and bOtHsIdEs are going to have Pikachu face for the next 4 years (if we are lucky that it's only that long).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Enlightened Centrist??? Centrists tend to be the pragmatic ones who looked to vote for biden and then harris and the genociden biden always seem to identify with far left in my experience here anyway. Heck I don't even consider myself a centrist so much but I am pragmatic and I do find when talking to the far left I definitely appear center to them and to the right (because there is not moderate right that I can see) I am apparently the biggest woke, lefty, communist type like biden or obama.

[–] CharlesDarwin 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That label is more aimed at the bothsiderists that claim they are Above It All (TM) and like to WellACKCHUALLY everything and everyone. Their favorite tactic is usually to talk about "extremes on both sides", and pull out their Tone Police card and lecture anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh on civility (this while extremist right wingers are doing things like smashing into the Capitol building and smearing feces everywhere. But the Democrats were seen violating Queensberry Rules, so it's time for a lecture on rules that only Democrats are held to). Another is to claim that they are an "independent".

All of this is to the benefit of the actual extremes on the far right. The extreme left is barely a thing. In the United States, anyway. Sure there may be some extremely loud people that seem to be driven by identity politics only and doing a lot to make new Republicans (if you ask me), but they are not really representative of anything, and certainly not the Democratic Party....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

yeah I guess the loud portion here was trumpeting how all the lack of votes for kamala was all do to not appeasing them enough and there was a lack of voting somewhere as it was down.