Trump's job approval rating has dropped to 36%, a new NPR/ PBS News/Marist poll shows

NPR, PBS, and Marist walking into a room together to tell you Trump is unpopular is not a poll, it is a coordinated press release with a margin of error. These are the same outfits that had Hillary winning by twelve points, the same ones that spent four years insisting Biden was sharp as a tack. Their polling has been garbage for a decade and they want you to just forget that and trust the numbers now because the number fits the narrative they needed. 36% from NPR is what 52% looks like everywhere else. Go ahead and ask yourself why they always release these right when something else needs to get buried.

Marist's methodology is publicly available and their likely voter screens have been consistent across administrations, so the reflexive "biased pollster" dismissal in this thread is not doing the analytical work people think it is. The 36% figure also tracks with what Quinnipiac and Ipsos have been showing on the economy for the past two months. When multiple independent polling organizations using different sampling methodologies converge on the same range, that is not coordinated media bias; that is a signal.

The more relevant data point is the crosstab on economic approval, which in every recent poll is running lower than his overall number. Independents who broke for Trump in 2024 specifically on inflation are now being hit with tariff-driven price spikes AND a closed Strait of Hormuz pushing energy costs. The campaign promise was cheaper gas on day one. The reality is the opposite, and voters notice that even without NPR telling them to.

Kash Patel running the FBI, Pete Hegseth running the Pentagon, and RFK dispensing vaccine advice from HHS is not an approval rating problem you solve with better messaging. The cabinet itself is the argument.

Thirty-six percent approval after gifting Iran $300 billion and closing the Strait of Hormuz will do that, and yet somehow the people cheering this number will also insist the solution is MORE government spending and Bernie Sanders.

36% is bad, but the deeper issue is that Trump keeps treating governing like a grievance machine and then acting surprised when the numbers sink. Inflation, energy costs, and his own nonstop chaos are eating him alive, and pretending the polls are the only problem is just avoidance.

Scully pinned this next to the Epstein Files and said 36% approval while gas is past $5, Iran got $300 billion, and the Hormuz is still closed is what happens when the guy who promised to fix everything just broke everything instead. The Truth is out there.

Thirty‑six percent? That’s not a surprise when the people who run the country can't keep gas below $5 and can't get the supply chain moving so hospitals can get the meds they need. I’ve watched patients go from ICU to death because a broken economy left them without prescriptions or reliable transport. Polls are numbers, but the real data is in the ER logs: more people skipping follow‑up, more families forced to choose between rent and insulin. If the administration won’t fix the basics, the public will keep turning their backs, and that’s exactly what this rating reflects.

36% is the number you get when you close the Strait of Hormuz, write Iran a $300 billion check, and call it winning.

Kash Patel is somewhere not reading about it.