President Donald Trump is not well-liked, and, according to new polling, few Americans understand why anyone would approve of the job he’s doing.
That makes sense when you consider he’s doing an objectively terrible job – see the ongoing tariffs fiasco, the status of your retirement account and the still-high cost of groceries – while routinely showing up on television babbling like a 78-year-old in mental decline.
When the 2024 World Series champions Los Angeles Dodgers visited the White House recently, Trump attempted to talk about the team’s resilience in the playoffs and wound up saying whatever this random assortment of words is: “When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy, they had great arms, but they ran out, it’s called sports, it’s called baseball in particular, and pitchers I guess you could say in really particular.”
It’s called sports, folks. And Trump’s called “president,” which is increasingly hard to believe.
Trump’s tanking polls show nobody is buying what he’s selling
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2025.
Recent approval polls show Trump sliding: He’s 13 percentage points underwater in a recent YouGov survey, 12 points underwater in a recent Quinnipiac poll and 5 points in the tank in the notoriously pro-Trump Rasmussen poll.
According to YouGov: “Trump’s net job approval is down 14 points since the first Economist/YouGov Poll after he took office this year, when 49% of Americans approved of him and 43% disapproved.”
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It is early in a president’s term to see such a negative favorability swing.
One explanation may be that Trump is uniquely bad at being president, as evidenced by his illogical and old-timey insistence on tariffs. Since launching an unprovoked tariff assault on what he dumbly dubbed “Liberation Day,” the global trade order has been twisted into a pretzel, and U.S. markets have whiplashed from “wildly bad” to “somewhat better, but still quite bad.”
Between making bad decisions, Trump says a lot of incoherent stuff
Not helping the general panic is the fact that Trump continues to utter quotes like this on live television: “I said we’re gonna try to get groceries down. Right? An old-fashioned term but a beautiful term. Eggs.”
OK. Have we tried giving him a nap?
President Donald Trump signs executive orders and proclamations in the Oval Office at the White House on April 9, 2025.
In a recent Cabinet meeting, he babbled something about companies building their own power plants with artificial intelligence: “We’re letting people build their own power plants. A lot of them being built with the AI and beyond the AI. Chips. We’re letting them build their own power. Never been done before.”
CHIPS!
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Quotes like that could explain why 51% of the people in the YouGov survey who APPROVE of the job Trump is doing said they “can understand why someone would disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job.”
That number is astounding. More than half of Trump’s usual die-hard supporters are like, “Yeah, I like him, but I definitely get why you might not.”
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Of those who disapprove of Trump’s performance, 74% say they can’t understand how someone would think otherwise.
Put those two groups together, and you have a lot of Americans concurring that Trump is doing a bad job.
Trump remains fascinated by ‘groceries.’ That’s not great.
In the same poll, of the majority who disapprove of Trump, 78% said, “There’s almost nothing President Trump could do to win my approval.”
They must’ve heard him in the Oval Office the other day saying of the Great Lakes: “I assume the lakes are all interconnected.”
Demonstrators gather on the National Mall for the nationwide “Hands Off!” protest against US President Donald Trump and his advisor, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2025.
Or maybe they listened to him on April 2 when he proudly touted his rekindling of the word “groceries,” saying: “An old-fashioned term that we use – groceries. I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it.”
Jiminy Crickets, the cheese has slid so far off this guy’s cracker that it hit the floor and the dog ate it. For the record, and just so we’re clear, the word “groceries” does not mean “a bag with different things in it.”
Trump, the fool, isn’t fooling anyone
To help, I’ll provide America with an actual old-fashioned term: bobolyne. It refers to a fool.
Trump’s presidency isn’t even 100 days old yet. But in word and deed, and apparently in the eyes of the public, he’s already gone full-bobolyne.
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