Reuters/Ipsos: Trump's already low poll numbers siding fast

MAGA America is slow to learn and believes nothing bad will happen to them. They’ll learn once they no longer have access to health care when rural hospitals start to close, when their jobs are eliminated, when they can’t afford food, and when airplanes start falling from the sky.

 

A recent Reuters poll showed that 49% of Americans support imposing a hiring freeze on all federal government agencies and 61% support downsizing the federal government.
But what the resistance is missing about Trump — and why his favorable numbers are up — is that he is doing what he promised.

While people who supported the president may not like everything he is doing — and some recognize that it might be unconstitutional — there is a feeling out there that at least something is getting done in Washington. So, as Trump steamrolls over Congress to the public, his supporters think he has broken through the gridlock and is doing what he said he would do — at least for now.

Trump has also leaned into PR victories rather than focusing on solving the nation’s bigger challenges. For decades, almost every politician has declared that waste, fraud and abuse must be cut from the federal budget. Nonetheless, it hardly happens, and when it does, it rarely makes a splash in the news cycle.

What does make news is uncovering programs funded by the State Department (which were wrongly attributed to the U.S. Agency for International Development), such as $1.5 million to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbian workplaces, $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia and $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. While these programs are less than a drop in the bucket in the State Department budget, these are precisely the type of thing that many American taxpayers say they are fed up with.

According to a 2024 study, the average American pays $524,625 in taxes over their lifetime. So when Trump announces massive cuts to USAID or Musk posts on X that “DOGE has now saved taxpayers over $1 billion in crazy DEI contracts,” it resonates with these voters.

Opinion | Trump is waging a blitzkrieg on the government. Some voters like that.

 

And it's only going to get worse.

 

FAKE NEWS! . Everyone knows he is the most popular leader in human history. I'm sure the project 25 people have factored all that in and have zero intention of ever going back.

 

This may dash Trump’s aspirations for a third term. He may only have have 1,440 days left.

 

The main problem here is that most people think Trump is a liar who wouldnt do all the crazy shit he promised and many voted for him based on the idea he would be 2016 Trump redux. Make egg price go down and stock go up. The number of people who want him to keep all his promises is pretty small!

 

it is the way that it is being done that is the problem. that seems to be lsot on you

IG's ahve been documenting ways to cut costs and prevent fraud.

implement those well thought out and analyzed plans

dont use it as an opportunity to indiscriminately hatchet everything while running roughshod over national security and privacy laws that have safeguarded our financial and healthcare records and dismissing all oversight

this whole cost savings joke is a ruse to cover the real crime that you have no problem with

a private citizen, the world's richest man, ketameine addict, wannabe worldwide kingmaker, eugenics racist now has the tax and healthcare information of every citizen and corporation that has ever filed a tax return. He has been given access to tax records that the Senate foreign itnelligence committee couldn't get, ie those of the dear leader himself.

a private citizen, in charge of multiple corporations under investigation or fines assessed by 16 different federal agencies, has been effectively put in charge of those federal agencies and dismissed all charges and fines against himself and his business interests.

do you see a problem with any of this?

 

For the 1000th time, Biden killed 130 million chickens.
That caused egg prices to go up, not Trump in office for less than a month.
Stocks are going up because because of business optimism from Trumps plans.

 

Also, in the abstract I'm sure people support getting rid of "waste," bloat or increasing efficiency. They dont like it when those things screw them, whether their business loses a contract, they get laid off, they lose benefits, etc.

 

So I assume that you also thought that prices went up in 2021/2022 because Donald Trump killed 1 million people in the US?

 

Well I guess you better hope reasons and that ol' 'liberal nuance' conservatives made fun of now matter to all the dumbest low information voters.

 

Are those national security and privacy laws the same ones that allowed federal employees to leak Trumps tax returns year ago?
Funny that Elon Musk was the darling of the left before siding with Trump so your Ad Hominem lunacy attacks on Musk are ill-founded.
If you actually attended University of Florida then why don't you spell words correctly and capitalize them at the beginning of sentences?

 

Again, nothing of substance. Seems to be your SOP. Do I need to spell that out for your sensitivities, use proper grammar, and spell check on a message board. Again, you have nothing of substance to the discussion and fail to address the issues raised.

 

They have no idea how irrelevant those poll numbers are.

 

The felon fired NIH and CDC that should help solve the bird flu issue..... so what's skidmark's answer? Please inform us.

 

Incorrect.
Several veterinary professors told PolitiFact that depopulation or "stamping out" of sick birds is a long-standing policy and pointed to a 2015 bird flu outbreak during the Obama administration.
Depopulation is the USDA’s primary control and eradication strategy for avian influenza, Yuko Sato, a veterinarian and Iowa State University associate professor, said.

 

So the felon is killing millions of chickens or not?