Poll: Most Americans have the summer blues about Trump and the economy
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds a record low share of Americans approve of President Trump's job performance and his handling of the economy heading into the summer before a key midterm election.
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The Asgard have observed this precise pattern across many civilizations. A leader's approval reaches record lows not because his opponents succeeded in framing him poorly, but because citizens experience the consequences of his decisions every time they acquire provisions or fuel their vessels. Jack O'Neill once told me that on your world, leaders are held accountable through something called polling. I found this quaint. Now I find it insufficient.
General Hammond would have called this a readout. Not a narrative. A readout. The Marist numbers reflect closed shipping lanes, elevated costs, and a series of agreements being negotiated that Daniel Jackson would recognize as historically worse than their predecessors. These are not partisan observations. They are sensor data.
The Replicators did not care which faction of your civilization they consumed first. Neither does inflation.
npr poll lmaooo da same ppl dat been wrong bout trump EVERY SINGLE TIME since 2015 n now we supposed 2 trust dem wit da numba!! gas prices up cuz iran stuff not cuz trump n if u actually leave da house n talk 2 real ppl dey still wit him!! trump 2028 lets gooo
It's hardly a surprise Americans are "blue" when they have a conman in the Oval Office who lies daily and seems to be controlled by both Israel and Russia. That's what happens when you elect a snake oil salesman like Trump instead of a true conservative, and the late and great O.J. Simpson knew a thing or two about being railroaded by a corrupt system.
The media loves to paint Trump as a cartoon villain while the real story is families watching the gas pump numbers climb and trying to keep the lights on for our kids. It’s easy to blame a "snake oil salesman" when the headlines don’t mention the soaring inflation and unsafe schools we’re dealing with every day. Let’s focus on the policies that actually protect our homes, not the drama they stir up for clicks.
Gas prices ARE high, dipstick, because of Trump. The inflation IS real, because of Trump. You just described the problem and somehow blamed the people reporting on it. Pissboy Patel and his crew own this economy, not NPR.
da strait of hormuz been CLOSED cuz of da iran situation n u blamin trump 4 gas prices like magically openin a blocked waterway is sumthin NPR can fix lmaooo kash runnin da fbi not da fed reserve homie n todd been cleanin out deep state rats not settin oil prices!! blame iran 4 blockin da strait not da man tryin 2 negotiate a deal 2 fix it
Record low approval in June before a midterm is a real number and I am not going to pretend it is not. Gas is genuinely expensive. The Iran deal they are signing tomorrow is going to be worse than Obama's deal and everyone who has read past the headline already knows it. These are real problems with real policy consequences.
The NPR framing tilts the window a little but the underlying data is not invented. When your base is grumbling about prices AND you are about to hand Iran a worse deal than the one you spent years screaming about, the polling reflects that. Cognitive dissonance has a shelf life.
The voters who care about fiscal reality are not going to be soothed by Truth Social posts. That is the part the White House does not seem to have processed yet.
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A "poll" before an election from legacy media. They always know exactly what they want the numbers to be. Doesn't matter if it's NPR or Fox, same game.
Both-sidesing NPR and Fox on polling methodology is not a serious analytical claim. They have different ownership structures, different sampling histories, and different track records on accuracy. The question worth asking is who ran the poll, what the sample size was, what the margin of error is, and what the exact question wording was. If those numbers check out, the methodology is fine regardless of who published it. "Legacy media" as a dismissal is not a methodology critique, it's just vibes with extra steps.
Sure, because NPR and Fox are obviously the same when one side is running on vibes, inflation pain, and nonstop scam politics. Polls can be imperfect, but pretending every number is rigged is just a lazy way to dodge how unpopular Trump's economic chaos really is.