Summary
Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected U.S. president since World War II, except for himself in 2017.
While his immigration policies and government downsizing have support, controversial moves—like ending birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico—face strong opposition.
Economic concerns, particularly rising prices, remain a major issue for voters.
Analysts say Trump’s popularity will likely hinge on broader economic and immigration policies, with potential political consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections.
Aptly put, I appreciate that there are people like you who still want to find the good in people.
Me, personally, I’m pissed. You can only fail 1+1 so many times before you’re deemed defective.
I personally find a lot of the “both sides” are just trolls. Quite a few are just quite intellectually lazy and only barely pay attention to anything beyond sportsball and celebrity gossip.
They look at the candidates and see “two old white guys” and build a ridiculous false equivalence from that position. Of course, they get an assist in this lazy thinking from the so-called “leftists” that often engage in ridiculous and absurd identity politics, but I’d say a lot of that is a deliberate effort to empower the far right. This was such a lazy form of thinking that even when Joe dropped out, the low-info didn’t even know he dropped out and that it was Kamala was running (and when told that, they didn’t even know who she was).