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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

6 out of ten said what? This is fine..?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 34 points 1 year ago

2 in 10: Average 3 in 10: Great

If you all could just try to not take the rest of the planet with you, that'll be great.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

You really got to wonder what that 2 in 10 thinks about the history of presidents of this country. I mean there's been some stinkers but Jesus.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fucking politicians. All the same ain't they.

Edit: ...is what they are thinking.

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s a bullshit poll. 10% selected “I don’t know.”

The AP-NORC poll surveyed 1,260 adults from April 17- April 21, using a probability-based method from AmeriSpeak. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

He’s underwater at 54.6% unfavorable on YouGov as of five days ago.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/donald-trump-favorability

He’s 59% unfavorable on Pew Research Center as of three days ago.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/04/23/evaluations-of-trump-job-approval-and-confidence-on-issues/

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[-] 0li0li@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I misread it as 4/10 say he's good, and still thought WTF?!

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

They were probably afraid to speak for fear or being deported

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It’s because we’re literally surrounded by nazis

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[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 74 points 1 year ago

Only 4-in-10? That's disappointing

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

It's why the US will fail, quickly.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It’s more than the people who voted for him…

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[-] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

How THE FUCK is it only 4 in 10?! Have they been bound, gagged, and held away from any goddamn newssource? This incontinent incompetent asshole is qualified to sit in a fucking jail cell, that's it. God this country is stupid...

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

How THE FUCK is it only 4 in 10?! Have they been bound, gagged, and held away from any goddamn newssource?

No, but there are millions who basically do not consume news outside of social media. And as you see on social media, people constantly complain about having to see "politics" and many try to block anything regarding that.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Hell it happens here on Lemmy. And tbh I've thought about doing it too, shit's way too depressing right now.

[-] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was venting... I work with people who complain that they were inconvenienced by protesters but also wont listen to why they were protesting... I feel tired and old.

[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Like it or not (I don't) the horrific immigration policies get a lot of support. Other countries are taking notice too.

Germany is considering removing German citizenship to dual passport holders if they are deemed "extremists" (but with no clear definition of what that means and how it would be determined).

Since before Trump 2, Italy has already had its own camp in Albania for immigrants and it's share of friction with judges who said these deportations were illegal.

Also "let Russia have Ukraine, why do we care" has enjoyed the sort of support people are ashamed to admit but that translates to votes to all the worst politicians.

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[-] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

“He’s really doing the stuff that he said he was going to do,” Tanner Bergstrom, a 29 year old Republican from Minnesota, told the Associated Press. He added that Trump is “not making a bunch of promises and getting into office and nothing happens. … I really like that. Even if it’s some stuff I don’t agree with, it’s still doing what he said he was going to do.”

He’s a Nazi, but at least he’s an honest Nazi.

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly, as a sane person yes I do like honest Nazis more than lying Nazis. But do you know what I like more than honest Nazis? People who aren't a Nazi, I like those way the fuck more than honest Nazis which apparently puts us in the minority in this shit hole of a county

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

30% of the population thinks tanking the economy, shredding the constitution, and deporting people to what is essentially a death camp without due process, all totally legal and very cool.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 1 year ago

~~Deporting.~~ Disappearing.

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[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of this book about interviews with "ordinary" non-political, non-military Nazi party members in Germany. Just regular citizens with jobs and families. "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45" (1955).

"The author determined that his interviewees had fond memories of the Nazi period and did not see Adolf Hitler as evil, and they perceived themselves as having a high degree of personal freedom during Nazi rule, with the exception of the teacher. Additionally, barring said teacher, the subjects still disliked Jewish people... At the time of the interviews the interviewees were still not in favor of the democratic Bonn government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

Excerpt from the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

4 in 10 Americans have an IQ above 12.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

Calling hIm "terrible," undersells it. He is, by all objective measure, the most prolific traitor in American history, literally worse than all other American traitors COMBINED.

He was already firmly established by historians as the worst president in American history following his first term, despite historians usually wishing to wait a decade before making their assessment. He was such a terrible president in his first term, that they didnt have to wait for his legacy to settle. Now he is only digging the hole of his legacy even deeper.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Shows that Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom.

[-] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

The world is full of dumb people shocker

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

4 in 10? Are these polls conducted in Mobile, Alabama?

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They're conducted by calling people who answer the phone when an unknown number calls. So boomers.

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[-] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

So what I'm hearing is democrats think he's trash, MAGAts still love his soggy ass, and the twats who didn't bother to vote are not bothering with this poll

(Also fuck those guys the most. This is as much your fault as the MAGAts)

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

So 60% of Americans are pieces of shit. That tracks.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

44% is not sinking. What has that number moved, 1.3%?

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

6 in ten Americans are complete imbeciles I guess

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And the other six? racist illiterate scumbags.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Could be a sampling bias. If you take 100 people at random from each state, the results would favor Trump. But 100 people is a larger percentage of red states than it is of blue states.

If you reword it as "4 out of 10 square miles think Trump is a bad president", it makes more sense, if you compare it to a political alignment map.

[-] friendlymessage@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago

No polling institute would make such stupid mistakes

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hands down, the worst president, twice.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What the fuck is wrong with the other six?

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

6 in 10 Americans are terrible.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

He's getting a masterclass in negotiation from Xi and I'm here for it.

[-] BoringHusband@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

These are the 4 in 10 who didn't vote then.

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