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Trump's approval rating

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by VAg8r1, Apr 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM.

Is this Trump DooDoo Show Worse than Trump 1.0 ?

  1. Yes

    5 vote(s)
    45.5%

  2. No

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  3. Obviously, how clueless must one be to even ask?

    6 vote(s)
    54.5%

  4. Trump is a nice man who loves America and has great ideas and we just need to see if they work.

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  5. We can't be sure, Co-President Elmo might still fix everything and Make America Great Again Again

    0 vote(s)
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  1. Apr 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM #21
    sierragator

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    Emperors don't need approval ratings.
     
  2. Apr 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM #22
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    I expected it. Trump inherited an economy that might have already been in a recession in 2024. Trump's ratings are still pretty high. I won't be surprised if his rating falls below 40 as happened to Reagan.

    To my recollection,Trump (first term) and Obama were both -26 (26 points underwater) in approval ratings. Bush 43 and Biden were both -30. These numbers are from Rasmussen.

    Could be wrong but I believe I once read that the US has on average been in a recession for 7 months before the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Analysis) calls it a recession. The NBER will make the call on when this recession started (if we are actually in a recession).

    During a recession, no matter whose fault it is, presidential approval numbers will fall.

    Historically the US goes into a recession every 4-7 years (I believe). Not much Trump can do about it imo. If you guys want to say tariffs exacerbated the recession I won't argue the point.

    Regardless of the economics and whether tariffs help or hurt the economy, I think even some of you Democrats would concede we don't want to be beholden to China and other countries for items critical to US national security. For those items would you agree that maybe tariffs are warranted to help US companies manufacture them while making a reasonable profit?
     
  3. Apr 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM #23
    VAg8r1

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    It will probably drop much more, the inflationary impact of his tariffs has yet to hit and similarly neither has the increased employment rate from the tariffs or his DOGEing of Federal employees. Speaking of DOGE the impact of co-President Musk's gutting of the Social Security Administration or the VA hasn't hit either. I don't see a diminution of of service to elderly and/or disabled voters or to veterans going over very well either.
     
  4. Apr 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM #24
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    Which is more craptastic?! Trump 1.0 featuring bleach injection, insurrection and double impeachment?

    Or Trump 2.0 featuring a Star Wars bar scene of Cabinet appointments, buffoonish intelligence lapses, and cartoonish economy-destroying tariffs?

    Sadly - only one vote per person.
     
  5. Apr 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM #25
    VAg8r1

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    Never thought that I would say it I miss Trump 1.0. Trump 2.0 has done more damage to the US in a little over two months much of it close to being irreversible than Trump 1.0 did in four years.
     
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  6. Apr 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM #26
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    We are dismantling everything that could help us survive another pandemic at the same time as we are attempting to create another pandemic through anti vaccination stupidity. Dont think bleach injection, dewormer and a rectal UV light are off the Trump 2.0 list yet.
     
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  7. Apr 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM #27
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    Yes I am in favor of tariffs when there is a plan that plan involves targeting a specific industry within a specific country. Right now Trump has no plan and you can see that through the blanket tariffs. The economy is like a house and tariffs are a tool in your toolbox. Each item in your toolbox has a specific use case.
     
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  8. Apr 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM #28
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    In the end George W. Bush's approval rating during his second term is probably the most accurate model for the trajectory of Trump's approval rating with the major difference is that Trump will ending tanking to the point in which he will be unable to recover less than six months into his term. It took Bush roughly two years to reach that point. Like Bush Trump won a narrow victory and thought that he had a mandate for radical change. The difference is Bush wasn't nearly as responsible for the implosion of the housing market the way Trump is for the soon to be economic disaster resulting from the same tariff policy that Hoover and the Republicans tried in 1930 when the Smoot Hawley tariff was enacted.
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  9. Apr 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM #29
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    Impacted by the ongoing reports of us deaths in Iraq and general glum of ongoing war.
     
  10. Apr 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM #30
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    Lol... still too early, and you might not even have the right answer from which to choose.
     
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