If from fear and intense loathing of Trump his approval ratings are going largely ignored by the humanly decent in a sanity-survivalist kind of way, that's understandable. But by now it's also really bad timing, because his job approval chart, like the picture of Dorian Gray, is suddenly undergoing a marked transmogrification.
In the last couple of days, reported job approval/disapproval numbers for the grotesque little man have been revelations of beauty. From seven surveys, five contained a pronounced turn of public opinion. The slight and narrow cracks we saw not long ago in Trump's favorability ratings have somewhat bigly embiggened.
I exclude Rasmussen Reports' finding — that of a net +5 job approval — because it's Rasmussen's. That's not to say there weren't respectable pollsters of similar and even exact findings. There were two: Economist/YouGov also had U.S. adults weirdly registering a +5 approval of Donald I Am Become Destroyer of Worlds, and among voters, Emerson found his approval standing at a modestly weirder +6.
In what looks to be a gathering storm across the statistical way, Americans surveyed by CNN, Quinnipiac, Gallup, Reuters and The Washington Post — rated 3 out of 3.0 by 538 and graded A+ by Silver Bulletin — responded with sentiments about the tinpot dictator which were appreciably removed from the sentimental.
In approve/disapprove differentiations, each lying outside the margin of error, Quinnipiac's was +4 disapproving, Gallup found +6 disapproval of Trump, Reuters +7 and CNN +8 among registered voters. Trump-love Bezos' once-esteemed paper of present shamelessness is nonetheless still capable of commissioning sound opinion surveys, this one, of U.S. adults, corroborating CNN's.
It strikes me and probably you that a bunch of digits scattered throughout a few paragraphs inhibits our sum-total objective. Let's remedy that with a sweeping two-week view of picturesque Trump-decline, as listed today by realclearpolling. (Here the penultimate entry, the Post's, differs from the above +8 net disapproval because it refers to only registered voters' score.)
What stands out is a general flip from Trump's in-the-black pluses to red ink; what's more is that the red travels pretty abruptly from somewhat low disapprovals to the thumpingly higher 7 and two 8s.
So much for sterile percentages. It's the why which supports them that tells the known tale of Trump's enduringly prodigious ineptitude as the bossman of both impossibly failed casinos and now a failing, and former, constitutional republic.
Along with his vivid incompetence, no less than 62% of American adults see clearly his dishonesty and untrustworthiness, says the Post's survey. (If the pollster were to ask Ukrainians, the percentage would soar to a verifiable 100.)
In the Trump-disapproving aggregate, Americans are most unhappy with the economy. They're especially displeased by the price of food, which, as you might recall, the practiced swindler barked from his touring campaign carnival last year, "When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."
Though most criminals fail to grasp the consequences of their illicit acts, some, like Trump, simply don't care. He figures it's only people's lives he's playing with, and of course sociopaths of compounding psychopathologies such as himself most certainly don't care about the pain of others.
Also from the Post poll is that 57% of Americans think he "has gone beyond his authority." I'll go out on a limb here and venture that Trump's infernally subtle dictatorial proclamation of "He who saves his Country does not violate any law" is likely responsible for most Americans' finally, exasperatingly picking up on his determined lawlessness.
There were existing yet admittedly almost imperceptible clues to the raving psychopath having come out of criminality's closet even before February of 2025 — little things here and there, oh, like brazenly committed felonies punishable by 10 or maybe 20 years in a federal slammer.
But February made me shiver
With every paper delivered
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about the rising tide
But something touched me deep inside
The day America died
Are we really dead as a constitutional republic? What happens after all of this mess is over? There is no going back? I just want to survive. But if my SSDI and my health care are taken away, I won't have anywhere to turn. This whole crisis made me suicidal the other day.