Trump's approval rating falls to lowest of his current term in new poll
President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to 34%, the lowest of this term, due to the economy and war, according to new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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34% and he's still fighting with Congress on every deal instead of closing ranks. That's what kills approval, not the media spin, it's when your own party won't back you up on basic stuff.
leans back in chair "the media made Congress ignore his agenda" is a hell of a take.
Nah, the approval rating is what it is, people are actually living through $6 gas and watching RFK Jr tell them vaccines cause autism while he runs Health and Human Services.
nope, his own party's NOT the problem here, it's the nonstop hit pieces from legacy media that won't give him a fair shake on ANYTHING he does.
"my party won't back me up" is what every president says when theirs won't vote for him, funny how that only matters when it's Trump.
The economy's rough but most of this is media bias, and half these polls oversample Democrats anyway. War situation is legitimately complicated though.
The 34% floor is real, but what's interesting is that it's holding despite the administration actively walking back inflation numbers and blaming the Fed for everything. If people actually absorbed what's happening with supply chains and tariffs, that number would crater further. Instead we're getting a public that's tuned out.
The base rate for a president's approval at this point in a term is around 42-45%, so 34% is genuinely low, not a statistical artifact. That said, the headline "falls to" implies a trend when the previous comments note it's been flat for months. Reuters/Ipsos is solid methodology, so the number itself is credible, but the framing of movement where there isn't much is doing work.
the 34% number has been stuck there for like eight months now. at some point it stops being "falling" and starts being "that's just who he is."
The Strait of Hormuz closure alone should have spiked these numbers higher if people understood what's actually at stake. Instead we're getting coverage that treats it like a regional dust-up. When your approval is underwater partly because voters don't grasp the supply chain implications of a major chokepoint being shut, that's not a polling problem, it's a communication problem the White House keeps failing to solve.
The White House isn't failing to communicate, voters just don't want to hear it when gas is $6 a gallon at the pump.