Donald Trump's Approval Rating Breaks Unwanted Record Published Apr 17, 2025 China Now Faces 245% Trump Tariff By Martha McHardy US News Reporter Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member Donald Trump has set a new, and unwelcome, benchmark in his presidency. According to fresh polling data, his net approval rating among independent voters has sunk to a record low, surpassing even the most unfavorable numbers from his previous term. Why It Matters Independent voters often decide the outcome of national elections, and Trump's record-low approval among this group signals potential trouble ahead—not just for his own political capital, but for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms. President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House on April 15, 2025, in Washington D.C. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP What To Know According to CNN pollster Harry Enten, Trump's net approval rating among independents has gone from negative 16 percent in 2017 to negative 22 percent in 2025, meaning the president has "broken his own record." Independent voters were a key pillar of Trump's coalition in the 2024 election, with 46 percent backing him—up from 41 percent in 2020, when a majority (54 percent) voted Democrat. But that support appears to be eroding in the wake of the president's sweeping tariff announcement on April 2, which rattled the markets before a partial pause temporarily stabilized them. Since then, however, Trump's approval among independents has not recovered. Newsweek's analysis of every poll conducted after April 2 that includes independent voter data finds his net approval currently stands at -17 points, with just 37 percent approving and 54 percent disapproving. His lowest rating came from a YouGov poll conducted April 7–10, where only 30 percent of independents approved of his performance while 61 percent disapproved—a net approval of -31 points. Poll Date Approve Disapprove YouGov/Economist April 13-15 32 56 J.L. Partners April 10-14 39 43 Echelon Insights April 10-14 44 52 Harvard-Harris April 9-10 40 48 CBS/YouGov April 8-11 39 61 YouGov April 7 - 10 30 61 Quantus April 7-9 39 53 University of Massachusetts April 4-9 31 53 Cygnal April 1-3 43 55 Navigator Research April 3-7 33 56 The most recent YouGov/Economist poll from April 13–15 showed similarly low numbers: 32 percent approval versus 56 percent disapproval, for a net -24 points. Other recent polls place his net approval among independents between -4 and -22 points. Trump's standing with independents on economic issues is also deteriorating. According to Enten, the president has fallen from a positive net approval of +1 in January to negative 29 percent when it comes to backing for his handling of the economy among independents, indicating that the group opposes tariffs. "They don't like anything that's coming out of Donald Trump's [mouth] right now, absent maybe immigration, but when it comes to the economy, when it comes to overall, when it came to tariffs, it's a threesome for negativity among independents," Enten said. "They oppose, oppose, oppose. They, simply put, do not like the words that are coming out of Donald's Trump's mouth." Polling on the tariff issue confirms the backlash. A HarrisX poll shows only 37 percent of independents support Trump's new duties, while 49 percent are opposed. Still, opinions are mixed on whether tariffs are necessary: half of independents believe they're essential for fair global trade, while the other half disagree. In a separate Quantus poll, 50 percent of independents opposed reciprocal tariffs, compared to 43 percent in favor. On the broader economy, independents are increasingly pessimistic. Only 26 percent believe the economy is on the right track, according to HarrisX. In the YouGov/Economist poll, 50 percent disapprove of Trump's economic handling, while just 36 percent approve. The CBS/YouGov poll shows even more discontent: 64 percent disapprove of Trump's economic stewardship. There are also concerns about inflation among independent voters. The You/Gov CBS poll shows that 68 percent oppose Trump's handling of inflation. Meanwhile, just 32 percent approved. The HarrisX poll showed that 49 percent of independent voters feel their personal financial situation is getting worse, while 22 percent said it is improving. Meanwhile, the latest Echelon Insights poll found that 68 percent of independents are very or a little concerned about the impact of tariffs. On Tuesday, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, warned that the chances of a U.S. recession have increased in the wake of Trump's tariffs and that an escalating trade war poses "material risks" for U.S. and global growth. "We are entering the second quarter with a markedly different operating environment than earlier this year," he told analysts during an earnings call. "The prospect of a recession has increased, with growing indications that economic activity is slowing down around the world." What People Are Saying Thomas Gift, an associate professor of political science and director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, told Newsweek: "It's hard not to think that Trump's precipitous dips in approvals among independents is due to economic anxiety. "His scorched-earth approach to the global trade system has injected huge convulsions into financial markets, stoking inflation and, in the eyes of many economists, laying the groundwork for the dreaded 'r' word—recession." Brett Loyd, president and CEO of polling company The Bullfinch Group, told Newsweek: "The first 90 days of his first term, his job approval dropped a net 8 points. While his job approval started higher in his second term, it has plummeted faster (about a net negative 10 points in the first 90 days). "Self-identified Democrats and Republicans aren't the ones moving these numbers by and large—it's Independents. Independent voters who were geared to give him a chance to lower inflation 'on day one.' That hasn't happened. And worse, some are beginning to feel that the economy isn't just failing to move in the right direction, it's actually headed in the wrong one. "Independents are independent-minded thinkers—they don't have to approve of Trump just because he's Team Red, or disapprove of him because they're Team Blue. They see the economy isn't getting better, that there's chaos in Washington, and think, 'Hey, that's not what we were hoping for.' They'll give you a chance, but you gotta perform." What Happens Next As the effects of his economic, immigration and other major policies come into sharper relief, Trump's approval rating is likely to remain changeable.
You can thank Biden and Harris and the Democrats that you have a President Trump. If it wasn't for their tomfoolery, you wouldn't have Trump.
MAGA fans decode why Trump is bothered by Taylor Swift before he bashes Bruce Springsteen TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 16, 2025 Trump bashes Taylor before he moves to Bruce Springsteen. As President Donald Trump came down on Taylor Swifton Friday morning -- apparently for no reason, calling her no longer 'HOT', MAGA supporters decoded what actually happened. Trump's beef with Taylor Swift is now old news, with Swift endorsing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the last presidential election. But what made her lose her hotness on Friday morning left the Internet bewildered before MAGA concluded that there was actually a reason. "Has anyone noticed that, since I said “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” she’s no longer “HOT?” Trump posted. The grapevine is that Trump was watching the Fox News bulletin where the news of human remains being found near Taylor Swift's Rhode Island mansion was being shown. The post must have come to the president's mind when he watched the news. The president was also on Fox reacting to former FBI president James Comey's "8647" message. Near Taylor Swift's mansion, human remains were found Wednesday amid concerns about a potential serial killer in New England. This was the 13th body or set of remains that were discovered in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts since the beginning of March. From Taylor Swift to Bruce Springsteen Trump did not wait for his dig at Taylor Swift to fester among the Swifties and swiftly moved to Bruce Springsteen. But this had a reason. Springsteen, a friend of Barack Obama, spoke at length against President Trump and his administration at his UK program. Trump said Springseen is highly overrated and he never liked his music because he's not a talented guy. "Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST EVER President, who came close to destroying our Country. If I wasn’t elected, it would have been GONE by now! Sleepy Joe didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing, but Springsteen is “dumb as a rock,” and couldn’t see what was going on, or could he (which is even worse!)? This dried out “prune” of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just “standard fare.” Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!" Trump said in his double meltdown on music artists today.
While he has the love of racists,southern hillbillies.D list celebrities etc its the A list celebrities and liberals like Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift that he always wanted to love him. Before he got into politics he never went on Conservative media,it was places like The View,Howard Stern.Access Hollywood etc.
Some more info... Shouldn't the U.S. President be focused on more important things than late night insults of entertainers? Trump Tells Bruce Springsteen to ‘Keep His Mouth Shut’ After Manchester Show, Reignites Taylor Swift Beef “Has anyone noticed that, since I said ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,’ she’s no longer ‘HOT?'” the President of the United States writes https://www.thewrap.com/trump-insults-taylor-swift-bruce-springsteen/
Opinion At debt’s door: America’s superpower is waning and Trump’s part of the problem Peter Hartcher Political and international editor May 27, 2025 https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-...mp-s-part-of-the-problem-20250526-p5m2a7.html In short order, Donald Trump has inflicted deep damage to three of the unique sources of American superpower. And he’s on the very brink of shattering a fourth. The US enjoyed the unique advantage of an alliance network of more than 40 countries. But an alliance is meaningless to Trump’s America. The US uniquely created and built the world trading system as a source of growth and prosperity. Trump is dismembering it. Illustration by Joe BenkeCredit: The US uniquely held in check war between great powers through its military might and strategic credibility. Its might remains. But American credibility started to slide under Barack Obama and today approaches the point of extinction. Trump’s threats and promises are worth nil. Russia ignores his threats to stop the war in Ukraine. China successfully called his bluff over tariffs. Trump claims to have stopped an escalating war between India and Pakistan, but they say he had nothing to do with it. Two newborn acronyms, both coined in the finance world, tell the story. One, coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong this month, is TACO – Trump always chickens out. The other, first reported by The Wall Street Journal last week, conveys investor sentiment about where to put money. It’s ABUSA – anywhere but USA. Now Trump is on the cusp of surrendering a fourth unique source of US superpower, and perhaps the single most important – America’s “full faith and credit”. That is, the ability to borrow cheaply, to spend lavishly and to enjoy the “exorbitant privilege” of issuing the global reserve currency. Fiscal vandalism: Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” bill will harm the US economy.Credit: AP China’s foreign ministry last month described Trump’s America as a “paper tiger”. Now even its paper – in the form of its Treasury bonds – is under challenge. It’s no secret that the US has been building a vast national debt for years. Indeed, it’s literally up in lights in the form of debt clocks at multiple bus shelters around Washington, DC, courtesy of the Peterson Foundation. The clocks show US government debt at $US36 trillion and ticking higher by the minute. That’s about $US106,000 for every man, woman and child in that nation. Before the pandemic, US debt stood at the equivalent of about 100 per cent of America’s GDP. Today, it’s 122 per cent. Some investors are starting to doubt that the US ever will repay it. The doubters include Trump himself. In 2023, he was asked about the risk of a US sovereign default. He replied: “You might as well do it now because you’ll do it later.” The worry is that “later” has arrived. Eleven days ago, the credit rating agency Moody’s cut the US government’s creditworthiness – for the first time since 1919 – to second-tier. Of the 200 countries in the world, only 10, plus the EU, are rated as risk-free by all three major credit agencies. The US is not among them. The AAA sovereigns are Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. There are signs of growing anxiety in the markets. The US dollar has been sold off in the last week and bond interest rates bid up. And now comes the fiscal vandalism that Trump likes to call his “big beautiful” bill. He’s half-right. It’s big, but it’d be ugly. The domestic politics of the bill are ugly enough. The poor get poorer through cuts to food stamps and Medicaid. The rich get richer; Trump’s tax cuts for high incomes and corporations get extended. But that’s their country, their business. Where it gets ugly for the world is its effect on the federal debt. The technocrats of the Congressional Budget Office calculate that it would add about $US4 trillion to the debt over a decade. The bill was passed narrowly by the House of Representatives and now goes to the Senate. If this is passed into law, market reaction will be critical. A sudden sell-off of US bonds would create a financial crisis with unpredictable consequences. Peter Orszag, head of the US investment bank Lazard, previously director of the Congressional Budget Office, said this month that, in the past, he had ignored “all the Chicken Little, kind of, ‘the sky is falling’ fiscal stuff, because all the dire predictions were not happening. But if you compare where we are now to where we were a decade ago, it’s a lot different. The deficit is twice as high. Interest rates are dramatically higher. I think it’s time to worry again about this trajectory.” So does the historian Niall Ferguson. In February, he proposed something he calls “Ferguson’s law”. It posits that “any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defence risks ceasing to be a great power”. He describes his proposed threshold as timely “as the US began violating Ferguson’s Law for the first time in nearly a century in 2024”. The Congressional Budget Office says that US net interest payments hit 3.1 per cent as a share of GDP last year, overtaking defence spending at 2.9 per cent. Different agencies have slightly different estimates, but the broad point is that the US is now in Ferguson’s danger zone, which he calls “a useful predictor of the decline of a great power”. How does this hurt a great power? Because there is less butter and fewer guns: “The debt burden draws scarce resources towards itself, reducing the amount available for national security and leaving the power increasingly vulnerable to military challenge.” He also finds the “Ferguson limit” signals the internal fragility of a great power, as well as its external vulnerability. His paper for the Hoover Institution studies empires from the Habsburg to British to support his thesis. Ferguson doesn’t claim that US collapse is inevitable at this point. But if its political system plunges ahead into ever-deeper debt, the risk of a market panic rises. And a chaotic sell-off could indeed seal the fate of empire. There’s an old market adage: “Deficits don’t matter. Until the day they do.”
Trump added 8.4 trillion in new debt his first term(the most ever in one term) increased the deficit from 665 billion to 2.7 trillion in his first term (the most ever in one term) and is about to pass another 5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich.By far the worst President ever for debt and deficits. Worst President overall too imo.