President Donald Trump insisted he loves inflation caused by his war in Iran and claimed he tanked the stock market on purpose.The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office, where he was asked about year-over-year inflation hitting a three-year high of 4.2 percent last mo...
Get ready for all the magamushferbrainz to start saying how inflation is good for us and they looooove high gas prices.
He’s under 30% approval? Just who are the remaining 20-some percent of people that think he’s doing good on the economy?
Look, I get why the centimillionaires, billionaires, and centibillionaires would support Republican policies. They stand to make buckets more.
But if you are not in that stratosphere, why would you think he’s doing you any favors?
He’s not under 30 percent, it’s 35 at the lowest. The evangelicals are solid behind him, as they expect him to help bring about the rapture, where the world gets drowned in lakes of blood and fire. Not joking. Here is the polling.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-drops-35-republican-support-softens-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-05-19/
Sorry, I was talking about the polling on the economy, where he hit 29% approval this week:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/trump-s-net-approval-rating-hits-all-time-low-on-key-issue-as-americans-worry/ar-AA25dldw
Given that, yes, a certain type of smoothbrain will support Republicans no matter what - as you point out - that’s an abysmally low number. The bottom 20% or so are probably just simply unreachable. Remember what Nixon’s numbers were even as he hopped on a helicopter after resigning in disgrace and failure.
Yeah, you’re right. Nixon was still right around 30% or so as he was leaving.
There are so many people that think zero is the bottom floor on any government or leadership approval poll, but it’s not. There are always going to be somewhere between 20-30% of diehards that will claim support even as dear leader is hiding in a bunker from consequences. Nixon’s 30% – “but that’s almost a whole third!” – was actually rock bottom. Even Pol Pot could get 30%, and I have no doubt Hitler could as well. That’s the actual floor, not zero.
You really can’t point this out enough.
feels like 30% of population everywhere votes for money stealing fascists just because they promise to fuck over someone else
Now you know 30 percent of the American population are the most vile people you have ever experienced. Keep that in mind when speaking to a MAGAt.
Just a nit: centi- means 10-2, so centimillion would be 10,000.
Hecto- is 10+2
People keep pointing this out when I talk about centimillionaires, but that’s not how it is used, so I use the more common one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire#Multimillionaire
Lots of phrases get distorted by journalists and activists who don’t bother to learn their correct use and just go by vibe. “Begs the question” is beyond recovery, but ‘centimillionaire’ makes as much sense as ‘600% discount.’ 80% of people ignore any statement containing a number, so the subtle difference between hundred and hundredth is hard to convey.
Charles Darwin would not play football on a centi-meter long field.
Yes, no disagreement here. But I’ll let others police the language. I don’t really have the time.
Not my pig, not my farm.
If you get most of the culture/media talking about UHNWIs to flip over to hecto instead of centi, more power to you.
More important is “where are all the people who oppose him and what are they doing?”… if the answer is something along the lines of “sulking in silence”, they might as well not exist as far as the orange pedophile in chief is concerned
Approval rates mean nothing without action.
So far, the latest push of the goal post says they will do something about it in November… but IMO, waiting for that is just another huge leap of faith