Donald Trump's approval ratings have hit a historic low, with every major pollster showing a negative rating for the first time. The New York Times poll aggregator reports an average disapproval of 55%, with only 41% approval. This marks a significant decline since mid-September, following steady ratings through the summer.

 

Polls by YouGov, Gallup, Ipsos, and others, including a trusted Fox News survey, highlight increasing public dissatisfaction. The Fox News poll reveals only 38% approve of Trump's economic management, while 61% disapprove, with 76% of voters viewing the economy negatively—a sharp increase from previous months.

 

Economic concerns underpin these figures, as consumer confidence has dropped severely. Trump's introduction of tariffs, which hurt the stock market, and high costs have fueled this sentiment. All political affiliations report worsening perceptions of the labor market, posing challenges for Trump and Republicans.

 

Internal party divisions also contribute to the low ratings, with disagreements on foreign policy and domestic issues like the lengthy government shutdown. The public blames both parties, with about 60% believing neither side cares about people like them.

 

Despite this, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson highlights Trump's achievements since taking office, including border security and economic reforms. However, Republican pollster Daron Shaw notes the public's struggles with affording necessities, driving blame towards those in power.

 

Key Takeaways

• Trump's approval falls to new lows, as major polls show increasing disapproval.
• Economic concerns and internal party divisions exacerbate public dissatisfaction.
• White House defends Trump's record, highlighting key achievements.

 

 

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Independent 2025-11-28

 

 

 

But is he losing his Republican base?

While some Republicans in Congress have become more frustrated with the president, polls don’t suggest that has translated to Republican voters. Most recent surveys show him with approval from the vast majority of conservatives.

Eighty-eight percent of Republicans continue to give Trump positive marks, according to YouGov’s polling aggregate; that does mark a slight decline from January, when 94 percent approved of him, but still suggests the party’s voters remain firmly in his corner. The aggregate is based on weekly polling of anywhere between 1,329 to 3,000 registered voters.

Other polls have yielded similar numbers for the president.

The latest Marist poll found that 89 percent of Republicans approve of Trump, compared to 39 percent of the overall electorate. It surveyed 1,443 adults from November 10-13. Its results were statistically significant within plus or minus 3 percentage points.

A Quantus Insights poll found that 84 percent of Republicans approve of Trump, compared to 43 percent of the overall electorate. It surveyed 1,000 registered voters from November 11-12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

Meanwhile, an Emerson College poll showed Trump with an 88 percent approval rating among his 2024 voters; across the entire electorate, only 41 percent approved of Trump. Emerson polled 1,000 registered voters from November 3-4, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

These results aren’t surprising, GOP strategist Matt Klink told Newsweek on Tuesday.

“Republicans realize that their future success rests with a successful Donald Trump. His successes—control of the border, accomplishments on immigration, lower gas prices, and passing the One Big Beautiful Bill—will play a large role in determining success in the midterm elections and beyond,” he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/is-donald-trump-losing-republicans-what-polls-show-11108871

 

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

But is he losing his Republican base?

While some Republicans in Congress have become more frustrated with the president, polls don’t suggest that has translated to Republican voters. Most recent surveys show him with approval from the vast majority of conservatives.

Eighty-eight percent of Republicans continue to give Trump positive marks, according to YouGov’s polling aggregate; that does mark a slight decline from January, when 94 percent approved of him, but still suggests the party’s voters remain firmly in his corner. The aggregate is based on weekly polling of anywhere between 1,329 to 3,000 registered voters.

Other polls have yielded similar numbers for the president.

The latest Marist poll found that 89 percent of Republicans approve of Trump, compared to 39 percent of the overall electorate. It surveyed 1,443 adults from November 10-13. Its results were statistically significant within plus or minus 3 percentage points.

A Quantus Insights poll found that 84 percent of Republicans approve of Trump, compared to 43 percent of the overall electorate. It surveyed 1,000 registered voters from November 11-12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

Meanwhile, an Emerson College poll showed Trump with an 88 percent approval rating among his 2024 voters; across the entire electorate, only 41 percent approved of Trump. Emerson polled 1,000 registered voters from November 3-4, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

These results aren’t surprising, GOP strategist Matt Klink told Newsweek on Tuesday.

“Republicans realize that their future success rests with a successful Donald Trump. His successes—control of the border, accomplishments on immigration, lower gas prices, and passing the One Big Beautiful Bill—will play a large role in determining success in the midterm elections and beyond,” he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/is-donald-trump-losing-republicans-what-polls-show-11108871

 

Brilliant, The important take away is  here,

"Most recent surveys show him with approval from the vast majority of conservatives".

3 minutes ago, riclag said:

Brilliant, The important take away is  here,

"Most recent surveys show him with approval from the vast majority of conservatives".

Because Americans who disapprove of Trump are no longer going to have the right to vote? 

Just now, Alan Zweibel said:

Because Americans who disapprove of Trump are no longer going to have the right to vote? 

What? 

4 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Because Americans who disapprove of Trump are no longer going to have the right to vote? 

Vote in what? Youve just spent a year saying if Trump won there would be no more elections. Was that a lie? Were the no kings protestors reacting to more msm lies the gullible woke masses eagerly swallowed?

Whats going on Alan? King or elections?

5 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Vote in what? Youve just spent a year saying if Trump won there would be no more elections. Was that a lie? Were the no kings protestors reacting to more msm lies the gullible woke masses eagerly swallowed?

Whats going on Alan? King or elections?

False. Whenever I said it, I said it was a possibility, not a certainty. I still think it is.

27 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

False. Whenever I said it, I said it was a possibility, not a certainty. I still think it is.

Bro.....🤣 we are not goldfish, and it was only a couple of weeks ago.

1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Bro.....🤣 we are not goldfish, and it was only a couple of weeks ago.

I quote: "Vote in what? Youve just spent a year saying if Trump won there would be no more elections."

If you've got some evidence that I made a firm prediction, produce it. I hope you waste your time looking in vain  for it. 

13 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

I quote: "Vote in what? Youve just spent a year saying if Trump won there would be no more elections."

If you've got some evidence that I made a firm prediction, produce it. I hope you waste your time looking in vain  for it. 

So can we conclude the forum left were talking 100% nonsense for an extended period of time when they knowingly lied that if Trump won there would be no more elections? 

We both know the answer is yes, that is exactly what happened. Using bs and lies to attack the man with no skeletons in his much raided closet😅

 

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

So can we conclude the forum left were talking 100% nonsense for an extended period of time when they knowingly lied that if Trump won there would be no more elections? 

We both know the answer is yes, that is exactly what happened. Using bs and lies to attack the man with no skeletons in his much raided closet😅

 

But your man Trump used BS and lies to get the big chair job, go ASK the people..........🤥

Who needs surveys?

 

President Trump Marks Six Months in Office with Historic Successes

 

Today, President Donald J. Trump celebrates the most successful first six months in office for any President in modern American history.

 

The White House
July 20, 2025

 

I would have thought his approval rating would have been considerably lower than 41%, the other polls I've been seeing lately are closer to 39% approval. There's no question that the vast majority of Americans disapprove of him, he's despised around the world, and considered to be the greatest circus clown in the history of American politics. 

 

The president is having the worst month of his second term. Trump’s approval rating is in freefall. Democrats romped to victory in elections. Unthinkably, even the Republican party is finding a spine, defying him on the Epstein files, Senate filibuster and congressional redistricting in Indiana.

 

During last year’s election campaign, Trump was all too conscious of the political utility of the high cost of living. He promised voters that he would bring down prices “starting on day one”. But two days after winning, he changed course by remarking: “Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down … So I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”

 

Tara Setmayer, co-founder and chief executive of the Seneca Project, a women-led Super Pac, said: “The ads write themselves [for the midterm elections] in 2026 when you have a president who promised to make the American people’s lives better – and who was supposed to be a champion of the working class and not of the elite – bragging repeatedly from his gilded Oval Office while military families are on food bank lines. It’s so tone-deaf and so ‘let them eat cake’ it’s hard to believe that he’s serious about this but he is and keeps constantly doing this. It screams: ‘I don’t give a damn about everyday people,’ and his base is beginning to wake up to the fact that perhaps he doesn’t care about us.”

 

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said: “The fact that Trump decided to lower tariffs on coffee and bananas is a complete admission that across the economy he is jacking up prices on millions of families. That was a big tell and Democrats should be exploiting that.

 

In a recent Fox News poll, 76% of respondents had a negative view of the state of the economy. In a Marquette University survey, 72% disapproved of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living. And in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 65% of respondents, including a third of Republicans, disapproved of Trump’s handling of the cost of living.  “They’re making a very consequential mistake, which is strongly, loudly asserting that people are better off than they know they are.

 

What’s fascinating about all this to me is that Donald Trump believes, correctly, that he has a superpower. He can get his followers to believe whatever reality he puts out there, and that’s worked for him for a very long time but it won’t work on this. Affordability is kryptonite to his superpower because his followers know which way is up when it comes to prices.”

 

 

7 minutes ago, transam said:

But your man Trump used BS and lies to get the big chair job, go ASK the people..........🤥

Which lies in particular? The 30,000 have been comprehensively debunked. The liars were the lawfaring cheating lefties😅

3 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I would have thought his approval rating would have been considerably lower than 41%, the other polls I've been seeing lately are closer to 39% approval. There's no question that the vast majority of Americans disapprove of him, he's despised around the world, and considered to be the greatest circus clown in the history of American politics. 

 

The president is having the worst month of his second term. Trump’s approval rating is in freefall. Democrats romped to victory in elections. Unthinkably, even the Republican party is finding a spine, defying him on the Epstein files, Senate filibuster and congressional redistricting in Indiana.

 

During last year’s election campaign, Trump was all too conscious of the political utility of the high cost of living. He promised voters that he would bring down prices “starting on day one”. But two days after winning, he changed course by remarking: “Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down … So I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”

 

Tara Setmayer, co-founder and chief executive of the Seneca Project, a women-led Super Pac, said: “The ads write themselves [for the midterm elections] in 2026 when you have a president who promised to make the American people’s lives better – and who was supposed to be a champion of the working class and not of the elite – bragging repeatedly from his gilded Oval Office while military families are on food bank lines. It’s so tone-deaf and so ‘let them eat cake’ it’s hard to believe that he’s serious about this but he is and keeps constantly doing this. It screams: ‘I don’t give a damn about everyday people,’ and his base is beginning to wake up to the fact that perhaps he doesn’t care about us.”

 

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said: “The fact that Trump decided to lower tariffs on coffee and bananas is a complete admission that across the economy he is jacking up prices on millions of families. That was a big tell and Democrats should be exploiting that.

 

In a recent Fox News poll, 76% of respondents had a negative view of the state of the economy. In a Marquette University survey, 72% disapproved of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living. And in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 65% of respondents, including a third of Republicans, disapproved of Trump’s handling of the cost of living.  “They’re making a very consequential mistake, which is strongly, loudly asserting that people are better off than they know they are.

 

What’s fascinating about all this to me is that Donald Trump believes, correctly, that he has a superpower. He can get his followers to believe whatever reality he puts out there, and that’s worked for him for a very long time but it won’t work on this. Affordability is kryptonite to his superpower because his followers know which way is up when it comes to prices.”

 

 

The bloke is an embarrassing salesman.......

3 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Which lies in particular? The 30,000 have been comprehensively debunked. The liars were the lawfaring cheating lefties😅

Dreeeeeeeeam on...............🙄

 

And don't wear your red MAGA ball cap on the streets in America, it will be too risky for you........😒

11 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

So can we conclude the forum left were talking 100% nonsense for an extended period of time when they knowingly lied that if Trump won there would be no more elections? 

We both know the answer is yes, that is exactly what happened. Using bs and lies to attack the man with no skeletons in his much raided closet😅

 

As a prediction about the future how can it be a lie? We've also had right wingers saying definitively and without qualification that the Democrats are going to badly lose at the midterms. Maybe it will happen, maybe not. Would you call that a lie if it turns out that Democrats do well in the midterms? There's a difference between a mistake and a lie. Time will tell if something turns out to be a mistake. But lying goes to intent.

3 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Because Americans who disapprove of Trump are no longer going to have the right to vote? 

Vance is the next guy 

When faced with accusations from a female ex-reporter that Trump only insults the intelligence of female journalists, the White House called her 'a scumbag'!

The unbelievable low level of juvenile crassness shown by the Trump government is something to behold. 

If someone wanted to make a movie based on the characters currently occupying the White House, no investor would go near it- 'Impossible! No US government could be so childish or lie so brazenly!' 

 

 

The White House lashed out at former CNN correspondent Kate Bennett, calling her a "scumbag," after she pointed to President Donald Trump's habit of insulting female reporters.

 

"You know, everyone keeps writing these stories about how President Trump is only insulting female reporters by calling them piggy, ugly, stupid etc," Bennett noted in a Friday post on X. "But, it's actually because the women are the ones asking all the tough questions. Give that a thought."

 

Several hours later, the official White House Rapid Response account responded to the former CNN reporter.

"Give this a thought: how big of a scumbag you must be to have been fired from CNN of all places," the White House team wrote.

 

White House lashes out at ex-CNN reporter pointing out Trump insults female journalists

 

This won't be the first time that Trump has extended a charitable hand to drug kingpins:

Who is Ross Ulbricht, founder of drug marketplace Silk Road, now pardoned by Trump?

The creator of a dark web market that sold illegal drugs, stolen passports and hacking equipment using Bitcoin has been pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, in 2015 in connection with his ownership and operation of the hidden website. The then-26-year-old was also ordered to forfeit $183.9m (£120.2m).

https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-ross-ulbricht-founder-of-drug-marketplace-silk-road-now-pardoned-by-trump-13294204

2 hours ago, transam said:

Dreeeeeeeeam on...............🙄

 

And don't wear your red MAGA ball cap on the streets in America, it will be too risky for you........😒

Because the irrational haters are prone to violence in a deranged attempt to hurt patriots? 

3 hours ago, transam said:

Dreeeeeeeeam on...............🙄

 

And don't wear your red MAGA ball cap on the streets in America, it will be too risky for you........😒

Believe me you don’t see ANY magga swag anywhere lol and look at the bright side heck trump has finally united the American people……against him and his ideas!!the worm has turned he’s definitely a ruptured duck now!!he’s flailing more and more everyday now.lets just hope he doesn’t do anything that can’t be fixed before he’s flushed down into history…..

14 hours ago, jerrymahoney said:

Today, President Donald J. Trump celebrates the most successful first six months in office for any President in modern American history.

Donald Trump's approval rating of Donald Trump is 100+% and anything else is FAKE news.

Some folks are just blinded by it and would follow him into oblivion. From someone who doesn’t have a dog in this fight (albeit he’s costing us all), it’s obvious why he’s become unpopular even among his own. First and foremost, he is costing people money. To the last, ALL politicians say they will do this and that to get in—‘WE WILL NEVER RAISE TAXES’ etc—and then what do they do? My own shyster gov is the same. Rat bags the lot of em.

16 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I would have thought his approval rating would have been considerably lower than 41%, the other polls I've been seeing lately are closer to 39% approval. There's no question that the vast majority of Americans disapprove of him, he's despised around the world, and considered to be the greatest circus clown in the history of American politics. 

 

The president is having the worst month of his second term. Trump’s approval rating is in freefall. Democrats romped to victory in elections. Unthinkably, even the Republican party is finding a spine, defying him on the Epstein files, Senate filibuster and congressional redistricting in Indiana.

 

During last year’s election campaign, Trump was all too conscious of the political utility of the high cost of living. He promised voters that he would bring down prices “starting on day one”. But two days after winning, he changed course by remarking: “Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down … So I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”

 

Tara Setmayer, co-founder and chief executive of the Seneca Project, a women-led Super Pac, said: “The ads write themselves [for the midterm elections] in 2026 when you have a president who promised to make the American people’s lives better – and who was supposed to be a champion of the working class and not of the elite – bragging repeatedly from his gilded Oval Office while military families are on food bank lines. It’s so tone-deaf and so ‘let them eat cake’ it’s hard to believe that he’s serious about this but he is and keeps constantly doing this. It screams: ‘I don’t give a damn about everyday people,’ and his base is beginning to wake up to the fact that perhaps he doesn’t care about us.”

 

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said: “The fact that Trump decided to lower tariffs on coffee and bananas is a complete admission that across the economy he is jacking up prices on millions of families. That was a big tell and Democrats should be exploiting that.

 

In a recent Fox News poll, 76% of respondents had a negative view of the state of the economy. In a Marquette University survey, 72% disapproved of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living. And in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 65% of respondents, including a third of Republicans, disapproved of Trump’s handling of the cost of living.  “They’re making a very consequential mistake, which is strongly, loudly asserting that people are better off than they know they are.

 

What’s fascinating about all this to me is that Donald Trump believes, correctly, that he has a superpower. He can get his followers to believe whatever reality he puts out there, and that’s worked for him for a very long time but it won’t work on this. Affordability is kryptonite to his superpower because his followers know which way is up when it comes to prices.”

 

 

With Trump's new immigration policy, I wonder how long it will be before other countries start banning Americans? Turnabout is fair play.

 

Perhaps Thailand should start. Kick out those useless and potentially violent American retirees...those "conservative" gun nuts who now even approve of attacking Venezuela and pardoning a CA President who ran 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US. Ban the whities, as look at what those whities have done to the planet...Imperialism, Colonialism, starting so many wars, with their siily talk of "empires" and the "white man's burden". The good people of everywhere from India to Ethiopia to Indonesia to Myanmar to Vietnam had to rise up and kick out the whities who were spoiling their lands and polluting their gene pool. Keep at it! Send whitey home!

 

I'm sure all the MAGAs, absent their "cashier" wives in Thailand, would prefer to go back to the US and be closer to their messiah and a land quickly being purged of Third World miscreants.

13 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Because the irrational haters are prone to violence in a deranged attempt to hurt patriots? 

I gave you a..........😂..

2 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Some folks are just blinded by it and would follow him into oblivion. From someone who doesn’t have a dog in this fight (albeit he’s costing us all), it’s obvious why he’s become unpopular even among his own. First and foremost, he is costing people money. To the last, ALL politicians say they will do this and that to get in—‘WE WILL NEVER RAISE TAXES’ etc—and then what do they do? My own shyster gov is the same. Rat bags the lot of em.

George Conway says MAGA's 'hardcore base' growing even more 'rabid'

You have people who have been MAGA who are in districts where the base is just whittling down to its hard base, hardcore base. So, they are even more rabid than before. And then, the rest of the electorate is completely pissed off at Trump, including some Trump voters. And so, they're in between this rock and a hard place caused by Trump."

A post with an intentional misspelling of another member's name has been removed.  @transam

22 hours ago, dinsdale said:

But is he losing his Republican base?

While some Republicans in Congress have become more frustrated with the president, polls don’t suggest that has translated to Republican voters. Most recent surveys show him with approval from the vast majority of conservatives.

Eighty-eight percent of Republicans continue to give Trump positive marks, according to YouGov’s polling aggregate; that does mark a slight decline from January, when 94 percent approved of him, but still suggests the party’s voters remain firmly in his corner. The aggregate is based on weekly polling of anywhere between 1,329 to 3,000 registered voters.

Other polls have yielded similar numbers for the president.

The latest Marist poll found that 89 percent of Republicans approve of Trump, compared to 39 percent of the overall electorate. It surveyed 1,443 adults from November 10-13. Its results were statistically significant within plus or minus 3 percentage points.

A Quantus Insights poll found that 84 percent of Republicans approve of Trump, compared to 43 percent of the overall electorate. It surveyed 1,000 registered voters from November 11-12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

Meanwhile, an Emerson College poll showed Trump with an 88 percent approval rating among his 2024 voters; across the entire electorate, only 41 percent approved of Trump. Emerson polled 1,000 registered voters from November 3-4, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

These results aren’t surprising, GOP strategist Matt Klink told Newsweek on Tuesday.

“Republicans realize that their future success rests with a successful Donald Trump. His successes—control of the border, accomplishments on immigration, lower gas prices, and passing the One Big Beautiful Bill—will play a large role in determining success in the midterm elections and beyond,” he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/is-donald-trump-losing-republicans-what-polls-show-11108871

 

Yet it costs the populace more to live their daily lives, did you forget to include that, "dinsdale".........😁

20 hours ago, dinsdale said:

What? 

You really need my comment about the following from riclag explained to you?

"Brilliant, The important take away is  here,

"Most recent surveys show him with approval from the vast majority of conservatives".

 

That it's less important that Trump is disapproved of by a majority of Americans. I guess if you consider the prospect of the midterm elections unimportant, that might make sense. And why would that be the case?