Fox Releases Brutal Poll For Trump
As Donald Trump's second presidency approaches the 100-day mark, we should be seeing a flood of new polling on his performance so far. Today, Fox News released its own new poll, and the news is decidedly not good for Trump. And this is coming from Fox News -- which is (obviously) tough for Trump supporters to spin as some sort of liberal news outlet.
Up until now, Trump's second term has been pretty dismal, when it comes to polling. His job approval as president has been lower than any other modern president's was at this point in their terms, with only one exception -- Trump's own numbers from his first term. Now, even that's not true anymore.
Trump's overall job approval in the Fox poll is now at only 44 percent -- which is down from 49 percent last month. At this point in their presidencies, Joe Biden was at 54 percent, Barack Obama was at 62 percent, and George W. Bush was at 63 percent. In Trump's first term, he was at 45 percent at this point -- one point higher than he finds himself now.
Being down 11 points on job approval isn't even the worst number Trump charted, though. Fox broke down Trump's job performance into individual issues, and Trump was only above water in one of them -- border security, where 55 percent approve while 40 percent disapprove. On every other issue Trump is below water -- even on "guns" (41 percent approval to 44 percent disapproval). While the public gives him (relatively) high marks on the border, Trump's numbers on immigration were just below water, with 47 percent approving and 48 percent disapproving. This must mean a segment of the public supports Trump's moves on the border, but does not support how he's been handling the deportation issue.
Trump's numbers are truly dismal on every other issue Fox asked about. Trump was down 14 points on foreign policy (40 percent approval to 54 percent disapproval), down 18 points on the economy (38-56), and down 15 points on taxes (38-53). But his worst showing was (not surprisingly) on the subjects of tariffs, where Trump is down a whopping 25 points (33-58), and inflation, where he's down 26 points (33-59).
These numbers are astonishing, when you consider that one of the biggest campaign issues for Trump was how he could singlehandedly -- and immediately -- fix the economy and inflation. After three months, he has lost tremendous ground on these core issues (which isn't too surprising, since Trump is actively wrecking both the domestic and worldwide economies on a seemingly daily basis). Only one-third (or a little better) of the public thinks Trump is doing a good job on these subjects now. That's a huge shift in a very short period of time.
Other numbers in the poll are just as bad as well. On the "right track/wrong track" question, 59 percent of the public is unhappy with how things are going. This is higher than the 53 percent who felt this way at this point in Trump's first term. A whopping 71 percent gave negative ratings for the economy, and only 28 percent say things are getting better for them. Trump is 22 points underwater on whether people think his policies are hurting versus helping the economy. Only 38 percent of people are "encouraged" about the next four years -- down from 45 percent at this point in Trump's first term. Almost three-fourths (72 percent) of the public are concerned that the economy is entering a recession.
Trump's tariffs are not popular either. Only 32 percent think the tariffs help the U.S. economy, while 55 percent say they are hurting it. And a whopping 72 percent think the tariffs are going to make products more expensive.
Trump's defiance of federal judges is not popular either. The poll shows 58 percent of the public thinks judges are "legitimately exercising their power in accordance with the Constitution's system of checks and balances," while only 33 percent thinks the judges are "unlawfully interfering with the president's constitutional authority." Two-thirds of the public says Trump cannot ignore court rulings, including even 51 percent of Republicans. Voters are more concerned (by 19 points) that the president will disregard judicial rulings than they are about the courts overstepping their authority.
Again: these numbers are all from Fox News. And the poll isn't some sort of outlier -- other polls are showing similar bad numbers for Trump (the outlier was a recent poll by Pew Research, which showed Trump 19 points underwater, with only 40 percent approving of the job he's doing while 59 percent disapproved).
Donald Trump is getting ready to tout the wonderfulness of his accomplishments soon -- he's scheduled a rally in Michigan next week to mark his first 100 days in office. But the public has soured on Trump in record time, so he's certainly got his work cut out for him in convincing others.
-- Chris Weigant
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. . . and the store shelves aren't even empty yet. Wait'll Hannity and his smelly Walmart shoppers get a load of that!
And Trump is already bad mouthing Murdoch and the pollster over this. The thin skinned propagandist just can't handle reality...
Wow. Those are the type of poll numbers that require some deep digging to achieve.
And this is coming from Fox News -- which is (obviously) tough for Trump supporters to spin as some sort of liberal news outlet.
I have multiple Republican friends (and family) who'll have no problems whatsoever spinning this faster than a levitated silica nanoparticle.
For instance:
* "Fox News has always had a fake pollster."
* "You can tell when Fox uses the legitimate pollster when Trump tells you they did."
Heh.
Cue the adult diaper jokes.
Y'all are making me laugh. :)
I'll take the numbers for what they're worth, following your lead. I do have two reactions I'd like to share, though.
On the "right track/wrong track" question, 59 percent of the public is unhappy with how things are going.
Oh are they? Are they "unhappy with how things are going"? What the heck does that even mean? I hate hate hate this polling question, because it never even tries to notice that people can be unhappy in two different ways: unhappy because things are not even more right wing than they are, and unhappy because things are not even more left wing than they are.
Is 59 percent of the public unhappy with how things are going, because they don't understand why we don't already have a fascist dictatorship that will arrest and imprison all the liberals? or is 59 percent of the public unhappy with how things are going, because they don't approve of a fascist dictatorship and are longing for a restoration of democratically liberal rule that respects good government, the rule of law, and an idealistic U.S. administration that honors America's traditional role as moral example to the world?
Gee, tough one. The poll simply doesn't answer those questions.
Secondly, let's look at the polling result that "only 33 percent thinks the judges are 'unlawfully interfering with the president's constitutional authority.'"
Gee. From a polling perspective, I understand that 33% is really low. You can't win elections with 33%. Got it.
BUT. WHY WHY WHY doesn't it say that "Only ZERO percent thinks the judges are 'unlawfully interfering with the president's constitutional authority."? Really? One THIRD of the country thinks the president can defy and ignore the judiciary branch's rulings on his constitutional power? AND WE'RE ALL RIGHT WITH THAT because that means they can't win an election? How about, WE'RE NOT ALL RIGHT WITH THAT because a third of the country already buys into a fascist theory of US government?
JEE ZUS. Sometimes I just cannot read political blogs that rationalize everything into conventional narratives of 51% = good, and 49% = bad.
what the hell, NFL? Shedeur Sanders has a skill set like Joe Montana, but just like Montana he's slipping lower and lower in the draft. I'm a Jets fan so I'm not invested in the success of the other team in town, but I can't shake the feeling that the Giants just blew it.
JL
John M from Ct.
5
I know, right!?
I've seriously seen polls that query something similar to: "Do you believe that water is wet?" With responses that fall in the range of:
* 80%: Yes
* 15%: No
* 5%: Unsure/No opinion
Then 20-ish questions later the query will be reworded similar to: "Donald Trump believes water is dry, do you agree? With responses that fall in the range of:
* 35%: Yes
* 60%: No
* 5%: Unsure/No opinion
You can also see this partisan dynamic within a very recent poll regarding Russia versus 2024, last year.
I don't know about anyone else, but the same friends who argued vehemently with me that Mitt Romney was correct in 2012 about Russia being America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe" (when we were at that time obviously 10 years into the war on terror with thousands of troops in Afghanistan) are the same friends who insisted again in 2022 that Romney was right about Russia and are the same friends who insist to me now that Russia isn't our enemy. That's the partisan effect and the Trump-cult effect wherein they repeatedly change their views and give me whiplash while insisting they haven't changed at all and I have. *shakes head*
It's like CW called it: TDS... Trump Deification Syndrome.
nypoet22
6
Okay. Be that as it may and still, the Knicks won. ;)
It's always been a source of great amusement to me how ya'all just LOVE the polls that say what you want to hear...
Yet ya'all COMPLETELY ignore the polls that say what ya'all don't like..
I have saids it before and I'll says it again...
Polls in general are good for only one thing. Showing the biases and attitudes of the poll takers..
Having said that, you are not being factually accurate on what the poll says.
82% are extremely or very concerned about inflation, down from 89% in January
PRESIDENT Trump is heading in the right direction on this... LESS people are concerned than when Basement Biden was totally fraking up the country...
According to the poll, Americans are feeling BETTER about the economy compared to how they felt about the economy in December under the Basement Biden/Headboard Harris junta..
So, all in all, the poll numbers are not as bad as ya'all are trying to make them out to be.. Even if a single poll was relevant to anything..
Which it's not.. :D
As an aside to Liz... Don't worry. It's easy to ignore trollings..
At least it is easy for me :D
I owe, I owe so off to work I go.. :D
@kick,
the knicks game was wild at the end. with half a second left, the clock operator gifted the pistons with a chance to tie or win, by starting the clock as soon as the ball hit the rim, instead of after someone touched it.
JL
The Trump Taxes have already launched the Trump Recession.
$1 billion project derailed
Thanks Trump.
Thanks to Fat Donny's failing Tariff Taxes, the GOP will now have to add a yuge bailout for "farmers" in their Big Beautiful Increase The National Debt Bill. It's becoming difficult to make the numbers work for reconciliation and even Short Fingers' favorite news outlet is reporting on his failures. Sad.
China can just buy their pork from Spain
getting back to the reasons for those poll results:
1. Economic mayhem
this is probably the biggest driver of the poll numbers. people have noticed that prices are going up. and anyone who has watched even a little bit of news knows about the president's policies and their contribution to that situation.
2. Violating the Constitutional order
this probably works in donald's favor, at least among his base. except among people with real conservative principles, they LIKE that he's breaking the rules, especially if it hurts the people they hate (liberals, immigrants, trans-people, "elites," etc.)
3. Destroying the US's global standing
There's almost certainly a bit of cognitive dissonance on this issue. destroying USAID is too far away for most Americans to notice. However, donald's ham-handed flip-flopping on Ukraine, Gaza, and tariffs, along with his team's deportations, defense leaks, and generally embarrassing themselves in almost every diplomatic interaction worldwide, a few independents who care about such things must have noticed.
4. Destroying the US government's ability to serve its constituents.
Anyone who files taxes or receives social security must at some point become aware that those services are not working the way they're supposed to. Anyone who was let go, re-hired, re-fired, or repurposed, along with those who they've left behind to do multiple times the work, has certainly noticed. not to mention anyone involved with government-funded research, teaching, student loans, medicare, medicaid, airlines, disaster relief, weather forecasting or banking.
That is what your [unnecessary insult] progressive Democrat[sic] so-called "leadership" is telling you what to think about [unnecessary capitalization] Trump's awesome 2nd term..
it's not necessary to be told whether or not to believe your own eyes, ears, grocery receipts or bank statements.
denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
JL
Michale
9
It's always been a source of great amusement to me how ya'all just LOVE the polls that say what you want to hear...
It's always been a source of great amusement to me how you profess repeatedly and over and over ad nauseam your claims to know what everyone else thinks and feels when you can't and you don't.
Yet ya'all COMPLETELY ignore the polls that say what ya'all don't like..
I will not profess to speak for everyone, but I do not completely ignore polls and would wager no one else here does either. The ridiculous repetitive claim is actually provably false via the archives to your left.
I have saids it before and I'll says it again...
No offense, but there's a name for that admitted repetition.
Polls in general are good for only one thing. Showing the biases and attitudes of the poll takers..
False.
Having said that, you are not being factually accurate on what the poll says.
Now you cherry-pick the parts you like after having falsely claimed the poll is only good for one thing.
As an aside to Liz... Don't worry. It's easy to ignore trollings..
However, demonstrably not as "easy" as stopping the performance of it.
nypoet22
10
the knicks game was wild at the end.
I know, right!?
with half a second left, the clock operator gifted the pistons with a chance to tie or win, by starting the clock as soon as the ball hit the rim, instead of after someone touched it.
Brunson intentionally misses the second FT the buzzer goes off... wait, what? Absolute nuts.
JL
Oops. You obviously didn't write my post! Apologies for that. :)
John From Censornati
11|12
Oh, wow. That's going to spiral into thousands of job losses (unless something changes).
A $1 billion hit in Kentucky.
A $1-plus billion hit to agriculture nationwide.
The memes being circulated on social media in China! I hope CW writes about those; they're hysterical.
Trump repeatedly claims China is negotiating with US. Nope! China is negotiating with nations not named America.
More unwelcome news thanks to the orange one:
Suburu sold over 17,700 American-built vehicles in Canada last year, but now they'll just build them in Japan and ship them to Canada.
Make Japan Great Again!
John From Censornati
18
Wow... and this correlates to even more job losses for American citizens (unless they are offered the chance to emigrate along with their jobs).
The Art of the Deal is apparently the Trumpian political whiplash caused by the uncertainty and chaos resulting in (among other things) more offshoring.
@kick,
i know i didn't write it, but I would be happy to take the credit. ;)
nypoet22
20
And did we even mention the dang technicals!?
JL ;)
Michale -
82% are extremely or very concerned about inflation, down from 89% in January
Wow, that's some world-class spin, there... "only 82% think the economy's getting worse" is not really all that good a number... I mean, just sayin'...
-CW