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‘He’s underwater on everything:’ Fox News host breaks down Trump approval polling

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‘He’s underwater on everything:’ Fox News host breaks down Trump approval polling - Lemmy.World

Summary A Fox News host, Jessica Tarlov, highlighted Trump’s declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance. Trump is “underwater on everything” including economy, federal workforce management, Ukraine-Russia policy, and trade relations with Mexico and Canada. The polling slide comes amid stock market tumbles, federal worker layoffs, and trade tensions. Tarlov noted that Republican members of Congress are facing hostile town halls where constituents are challenging them on federal workforce cuts, including at the VA. Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”

Mar 15, 2025 at 3:26pmWeb
Show threadgivesomefucksMar 15, 2025

What’s absolutely crazy is he just signed an EO to get rid of USAGM…

For those who don’t know, that’s basically the propaganda arm of the US government and has been for a very long time.

This is probably the most surprising thing so far for me, I really thought he’d expand that to do more work domestically to counteract all the bad press and approval loss his actions are resulting in.

Like, I get why Putin doesn’t want the rest of the world to like us, but it’s just crazy they’re getting rid of USAGM instead of just changing the propaganda it spreads.

Actually kind of relieved to see it shut down, this is a weird morning.

Show threadThe D QuuuuuillMar 15, 2025
he’s very dumb
Show threadInverseParallaxMar 17, 2025

Shutting it down is harder to reverse under another president (god-willing).

This is like why putin put the bug in his ear about tariffs, it divides the west, leaving a regional power like Russia free to consolidate power everywhere.

Remember, Wagner is very powerful in Africa, where the voa and its siblings are most active.

Show threadMagicShelMar 15, 2025
On the one hand, I support a politician who does the right things despite public opinion. Fuck approval ratings. On the other hand, how can a single person be wrong about fucking everything? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Show threadJoncash2Mar 15, 2025
I mean depends on how you look at it. In many ways, the world NEEDS to get off it’s dollar addiction. Having a hegemonic currency isn’t great for humanity as a whole. And Trump is doing the very best I’ve ever seen at helping the world cure itself of this problem. Not great for USA, but an important step for how geopolitics will work moving forward. Unless you meant doing everything wrong for Americans, then yes, Trump is awful.
Show threadEm AdespotonMar 15, 2025

It’s pretty destabilizing globally too. I don’t see the dollar addiction going anywhere; it’s just changing currencies.

We really don’t need China or Russia (or KSA or EU) calling the shots globally either.

Show threadCruxifuxMar 15, 2025
At this point I’d rather have China calling the shots than the USA which is actively threatening to fucking invade my country. Seriously fuck that country and fuck its global hegemony, at this point I hope it burns to the fucking ground.
Show threadglimseMar 15, 2025
He stopped penny minting. I’m sure he accidentally did one other good thing for the adage to be true
Show threadknightly the SneptaurMar 15, 2025
He destroyed the American Empire too, but that feels like giving Hitler credit for shooting Hitler.
Show threadsamus12345Mar 15, 2025
But he did it in the worst possible way, with massive avoidable collateral damage.
Show threadHubiMar 15, 2025

declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance

Another Quinnipiac poll from last month determined 45 percent approved of Trump’s performance and 49 percent disapproved.

So half of the people still approve of what he’s doing? How does such a small percentage even justify a news article with such a ridiculous headline? The US are so cooked it’s not even funny. Wake me when it’s at 90% disapproval.

Show threadskulblakaMar 15, 2025

I’ve never heard of that polling agency in my life before. I had to look it up, it’s a private university in Connecticut.

I sure didn’t get polled about any of this.

So no, more precisely, half of all people polled by this one school in a state that nobody talks about approve of what he’s doing. I’m willing to bet half of those people have no idea what’s going on.

I have a very hard time believing that half of all Americans are happy and content with current events. I live here, I hear people complain.

Show threadGreyEyedGhostMar 15, 2025
Do you honestly believe good polls call everyone for a poll, or that they need to to get good results?
Show threadskulblakaMar 15, 2025

I do think they need to have a good sample size to get results that make sense, yes.

Doing some research on it, seems like Quinnipiac’s standard polling is conducted “in more than 20 states and cities as well as nationally” (particular locations not specified) and has typically 1,000+ respondents using random digit dialing. Meaning they just slap random numbers into the phone and see who picks up.

I can’t say I can immediately come up with a better solution right off the top of my head right now, but I can identify several problems with their approach, namely being actual size of sample (1000 respondents is 0.000003% of the population) and the way they gather their responses (when was the last time you answered the phone for an unknown caller? Now when was the last time your grandmother did?).

Show thread0opsMar 15, 2025

From what I remember from university stats, 1000 is the standard sample size for these types of things and accurate to a reasonable margin of error (±3% iirc).

This is assuming that it’s truly a representative sample though, and frankly I’m with you that I do have my doubts that over-the-phone surveys sufficiently represent the youth.

Show threaderan_moradMar 15, 2025
You know what would be dope tho is if he were underwater in a swasticar.
Show threadMyOpinionMar 15, 2025
I wonder why he is doing just like he said he would.
Show threadcharade_you_areMar 15, 2025
wake me up when it’s the 100% it should be
Show thread0opsMar 15, 2025
Rip
Show threadHikuro-93Mar 15, 2025
‘He’s underwater on everything’ - except the one way that matters the most.
Show threadLemmistMar 15, 2025
His nose is still above water?
Show threadGrimyMar 15, 2025
Someone should start telling him no one has visited the titanic and he could be the first.
Show threadLemmistMar 15, 2025
Call OceanGate. They can provide the submarine. They have the EXACT experience we need.
Show threadMeron35Mar 16, 2025

He just bought a Tesla, and with any luck that’ll drown him like it did Angela Chao, the billionaire magnate whose brother in law is Mitch McConnell.

Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows - www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898

Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows

Angela Chao phoned a friend as the Model X SUV sank into a pond at a ranch and told her: "I love you."

Show threadQueen HawlSeraMar 16, 2025
I’ll never understand how investigations weren’t launched over that shit
Show threadbradorsomethingMar 16, 2025
Maybe they’re concerned they’d find out the information she killed herself over.
Show threadjordanlundMar 15, 2025

“The president’s approval rating has been struggling for at least a month”

He’s only been in office 53 days… so struggling 56.6% of the time… at least.

Show threadcatsarebadpeopleMar 15, 2025
His next plan will be to start a war
Show threadT00l_shedMar 16, 2025
Invading panama
Show threadLemminaryMar 16, 2025
Or Greenland, or Canada, or Mexico… Truly a winning strategy to threaten everyone all at once. 🙄
Show threadT00l_shedMar 16, 2025
Oh for sure, but he’s said to draw up plans to get Panama. So right now that’s the most “real” one
Show threadThe D QuuuuuillMar 16, 2025
with his fucking cottage cheese brain he’ll demand plans for invading Panama and then immediately invade Brazil
Show threadsoycapitan451Mar 16, 2025

When the UK last had a moron setting everything on fire she was outlasted by a lettuce.

Americans need to up their game.

Show threadjacksilverMar 16, 2025
Sadly the US system is not designed to oust the president that easily. It would be a first if Trump was removed from office due to the impeachment process, removing the prime minister is a much lower bar.
Show threadtigeruppercutMar 17, 2025
Impeachment should theoretically work but when the system was put in place it didn’t account for an entire political party turning fascist
Show threadInverseParallaxMar 17, 2025
It actually did, the south was entirely fascist for it’s entire existence, they literally designed the system so the south could always veto the rest of the country combined no matter what, hence the 3/5 compromise giving them power in the house and the structure of the senate.
Show threadInverseParallaxMar 17, 2025

He has a positive approval rating in both houses of congress and the Supreme Court.

Also among mentally unstable billionaires.

Which is all that matters in reality.