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About 4-in-10 Americans say Trump is a ‘terrible’ president amid sinking approval: Survey

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A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 Americans say Trump has been a “terrible” leader in his second term.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that about 2 in 10 think he has done an average job in his presidency and 3 in 10 says he’s been a great or good president.

44% say Trump’s focused on the wrong priorities in the AP-NORC poll, 21% said an even mix and 10% don’t know

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- Political tribalism is so crazy in this country. It's like Republicans and Democrats live in two different countries. I suppose in some ways they do.
  
  The divide is actually between "people who got an education that included critical thinking skills" and people who didn't.
  Ideologically speaking, dozens of studies and surveys have shown that Americans are actually not very ideologically separate - it's just that the group that can't critically think is routinely and easily manipulated into voting AGAINST their own ideology through fear.
  
  You forgot to add that the people who are steering that narrative are literally billionaires and millionaires who are actively publishing propaganda to brainwash the masses.
  And it isn't just undereducated people who fall for it. This is an effort that has been going on for 50 years. The conservative ideological points have been worked into ads, schools, and main stream television. Touting American exceptionalism while downplaying the socialist programs that have ushered in the golden era of America's general populace prosperity. Medicare, Medicaid, social security, welfare, and even agricultural subsidies are all social programs enacted with the intent to bolster a strong populace. These downplaying and demonizing efforts are being paid for in full by multimillion dollar corporate conglomerates run by millionaires and billionaires. Conservative voters in both well educated places and undereducated places have been thoroughly convinced that these programs are horrible and are "stealing money from their pockets to give to dirty immigrants and poor people who don't want to work." Reagan, over 40 years ago, coined the term "welfare queen" which is the single dumbest term in the history of the world. No one living on welfare is living "like a queen". And yet the term still gets airtime and ink in not only conservative rags but moderately liberal spaces as well.
  
  Ideologically speaking, dozens of studies and surveys have shown that Americans are actually not very ideologically separate
  Maybe Americans are generally ideologically homogeneous, but there's enough variability within that shared ideology for there to be significant disagreements between the various ideological subgroups. Even if Americans broadly agree on the matter of individual rights, liberties, and freedoms, they may not necessarily agree on which rights should be prioritized or for whom.
  But maybe the problem is in the shared ideology itself. A country that is adamant that people should have the right to be ignorant and misinformed, shouldn't be surprised when large numbers of people are ignorant and misinformed.
  
  We do, one side believes in freedom, equality, empathy and truth. The other side are shit flinging monkeys at this point.
  What's sad is like half of the country is basically still asleep at the wheel and just voting for whatever party they've been voting for and are more informed about celebrities than the constitutional crisis occurring.
- The question cropped out of the image above:
  Question: So far, in his second term, do you think Donald Trump has been a great, good, average, poor, or terrible president?
  Source: AP-NORC poll conducted April 17-21, 2025, with 1,260 adults age 18 and older nationwide.
  From the bottom of the survey: The nationwide poll was conducted April 17-21, 2025 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,260 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.9 percentage points.
- These posts are always a great illustration of why you simply cannot trust or pay any attention to polls.
  #1 biggest issue here --> there are 0 Democrats who think Trump is a "Great" president. To believe something like this is an admission of stupidity and ignorance so profound as to be dangerous. There are people who TELL THE POLLSTERS THEY ARE DEMOCRATS but in actuality have likely never voted Democrat in their life. So when folks are going "Where are these Democrats that think he's doing great??" the answer is "they are nowhere because they aren't real."
  This is easily verifiable by simply going online to Democratic spaces and looking with your own eyes. Go to Democratic rallies and look. Listen to Democratic influencers and find A SINGLE FUCKING ONE who has anything even REMOTELY POSITIVE to say.
  You won't find one. Because there aren't any.
  Now there may be some Democrats who, like another commenter mentioned, are so completely oblivious to the news that they may ACTUALLY think Trump has been "good", especially if they 1.) live in a white enclave, 2.) don't have any money tied up in stocks, and 3.) harbor anti-immigrant feelings (which is much more common than folks realizee). If you're living a life of total privilege AND are surrounded by the kind of "polite conservatives" most millionaires are, you'd think everything is great because EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS DOING FINE, IS HAPPY, AND IS THRIVING.
  but GREAT? LOL you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid and live under a rock to think anyone who is a registered Democrat thinks Trump is "Great".
  These polls - just like the ones people are pointing to as a way of dismissing the obvious election theft that just happened - are created by the Right-wing media apparatus as a way of pacifying people. My own father is a MAJOR, BIG DEAL elections guy and staunchly anti-Trump, but he waves away any and all conversation about 2024 being stolen because "the results were in the margin of the polls".
  Polls are used as a means of pacification and must be ignored. If polls were accurate, they would have showed Trump losing across the board, since we know there were enough *purged Democratic ballots to give Kamala a 1.5% victory and flip at least 4 states to her. If polls were accurate, THOSE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE SHOWN UP IN THE POLLING THAT WAS BEING DONE BEFORE THEY GOT PURGED.
  The fact NOBODY mentions that little fact is why we know that polls as they are used today are total bullshit, red-herrings meant to keep us from asking questions.
  
  Everyone who has ever analyzed anything statistical on the population level knows that everything you just wrote is bullshit.
  I'd be wary of a statistic where absolutely no Democrat likes Trump. Some people are just stupid or have extremely weird ideas so even completely bonkers stuff is believed by some.
  Go to Democratic rallies and look
  That's the biggest fallacy right here. Most democratic leaning voters never go to any rally. In general, many voters never discuss politics. You're in a bubble.

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