More Americans say Trump's second term has been worse than expected, according to a new poll

[In It to Win It]

Two months into Donald Trump’s second term, more Americans say his presidential performance has been worse (41%) rather than better (30%) than they expected, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

Another 22% say Trump has been “about the same” as they expected.

The new survey of 1,677 U.S. adults, which was conducted from March 20 to 24, finds the president struggling amid rising economic uncertainty to maintain the political momentum that greeted his reelection last November.

Immediately after Trump’s Nov. 5 victory, 51% of Americans told Yahoo News and YouGov that they approved of the way he had handled his first term in office, while 43% said they disapproved. But today those numbers are reversed, with more Americans disapproving (50%) than approving (44%) of the job that Trump is currently doing.

Likewise, more Americans now rate Trump unfavorably (52%) than favorably (44%) on a personal level. After the election, Trump’s favorable rating (49%) narrowly exceeded his unfavorable rating (48%).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-americans-say-trumps-second-term-has-been-worse-than-expected-according-to-a-new-poll-120010590.html

[Aristus]

1. Surprise, surprise.

He came right out and said he was going to use his second term to get revenge on anyone and everyone he thinks has wronged him in his life (which he thinks is everyone; the asshole takes everything personally.)

It's a little late, people, to being complaining that you've been had. The time to think about the horror of a second Trump term was before the election. If you voted for Trump anyway, eat shit and die.

[spooky3]

2. I will never understand how so many Americans (a) saw his first term as positive (did they forget COVID?); and (b) still

see him or his work favorably.

Those numbers should be much, much lower.

I guess one hypothesis is that many simply do not pay attention; another is that a substantial portion are hateful; and a third is that there truly is a group primarily interested in their own financial situation, even though they are ignorant of how economics, inflation, etc. work. For the third, if things keep spiraling downward, eventually, they will disapprove.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. I have come to believe that a lot of the potential electorate wasn't paying attention. They'd grown up with

The American welfare state (such as it is) and never felt the hunger, the fear and the ragged edge of desperation that so many people of previous generations who lived through the Great Depression and other hardships, that made a lot of them susceptible to right-wing BS—because they’d never lived through hard times or they assumed that the hardships would never find them.

This isn’t to say that enough Trump voters would have been smart enough not to vote for him—but his numbers would have been a lot lower.

[spooky3]

6. good point nt

[Vogon_Glory]

7. I remember reading a quote by right-wing activist Grover Norqist back in the 80's

chortling about the bright prospects for the Republican Party because so many people who lived through the Great Depression were dying off.

And to an extent, that proved true. I doubt nearly as many voters from that age cohort would have been buying the BS THE Conservative Movement is pushing now.

[Gary 50]

24. I would call all three facts, not hypothesis, but you neglected to mention Fox propaganda and

the rest of the right wing lie machine. The maga rubes live in a bubble impervious to facts, truth or reality. Because of this, no matter how bad things spiral downward, they will be told it was liberals or foreigners or the woke mind virus that made their lives miserable.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

27. Republicans are still clueless only 15% of them think he's a danger.

70% of Repubs think he just likes to talk tough.
14% of Repubs are unsure.

84% of Democrats think he is a danger,
9% think he just likes to talk tough,
6% aren’t sure.

Independents
46% think is is a real danger to democracy
40% think he just likes to talk tough
14% are not sure.

So as long as these Republicans are still brain dead and listening to propaganda, Trump will continue to “carry on.” There will still be a huge percentage of Republicans that will pressure Republican lawmakers to stick with Trump and a good number of Republican thugs who will issue death threats (with their security details being pulled.

The fact we don’t hear much from the Bidens, the Clintons, the Obamas says they must be afraid. The Bidens and the Clintons no longer have secret service protection.

[OrlandoDem2]

3. Americans on the aggregate are stupid. They couldn't recognize before he was elected what was about to happen?

[LisaL]

5. Exactly.

WTF did they expect? It's not like they weren't warned about it all.

[raccoon]

13. Stupid or brain dead.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

28. The Republicans STILL don't realize.- only 15% realize it.

[GoodRaisin]

8. I don't know how it's not a lot worse.

44% still approve of this shit?

[calimary]

19. I was about to say the same thing.

I can’t believe his positive ratings are still as inexplicably high as they are.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

29. Fox News and other propaganda. Just watch Fox for 5 minutes and you'll see.

[calimary]

39. I dream of the day Pox Noise finally goes out of business.

Yeah, I know, I know. It’ll probably never happen, but I can still dream, can’t I!?

[CousinIT]

9. Well DUH. nt

[0rganism]

10. 30% say "better than expected"

I expected better from my fellow Americans. I was wrong. So very wrong.

[wolfie001]

23. Hardcore white racists

Every one of 'em.

[progressoid]

25. Watch and listen to right wing media.

These people are fed a constant diet of "Trump good" "Dems bad."

[Karasu]

34. I expected nothing less from them, myself. The stupidity of this nation has no limit.

[GulfofMexico]

11. Just more evidence of how dumb tens of millions of Americans are

The guy's been a Russian asset for 40 years. He was the worst president in US history the first time, and the only one to be impeached twice. Then he's convicted of 34 counts of fraud and leads an attempted coup against the federal government--and lies and lies and lies and tells lewd stories and fakes sex with a microphone and says immigrants are eating pets and hands out Project 2025--so how could anyone possibly have seen this coming?

It would be hilarious if it weren't so heinous and disgusting and reprehensible.

BTW: I hear the dog formely known as the German shepherd will forthwith be known as the "American shepherd." Or they might just deport 'em all. Gotta get on Signal and group chat about it first.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

35. No offense, but I just read about 2 owners that got attacked by their GS

They put him in a cage after the attack because they were afraid of the dog and now might have to euthanize him if there’s no expert on dog handling to take him. The owner was a cop who supposedly knew how to handle dogs.

So maybe calling them American Shepherds is appropriate. I have heard of too many attacks by those dogs. But I’m a cat person, so what do I know?

I might be a bit biased - I have seen 2 dog attacks, one was by a German Shepherd.

[walkingman]

40. Welcome to DU - love the name ☮

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. Welcome to DU

[Ping Tung]

12. For those that voted him in it must be like waking up still drunk and in a cell.

[Martin68]

14. Proof that "more Americans" are shockingly misinformed, and criminally negligent.

[Sun-Moon]

15. You think?

[bmichaelh]

16. D'oh!

Many Trump voters will say D'oh! (Homer Simpson reference) before all is done.

[aroach]

17. Impossible for me

It can't be worse than I expected since I expected the worst possible outcome. It has been a bit faster than I expected though.

[Karasu]

36. Yes, the thing that's shocked me is how much has already happened in 2 fucking months. The rate at which this collapse

is occurring is insane.

If these 2 months are any indication, there's a real chance that they could potentially get most of us fucking killed by the end of the year. They sure as fuck don't need 4 of them. Being completely fascist and this incompetent is a recipe for the worst possible scenario occurring sooner rather than later.

Frankly, "Signalgate" has raised the chances of that significantly higher.

[BarbD]

18. There is a vast percentage of people who do not pay attention.

They don't want to hear bad news.

[jmowreader]

20. I'd like to see one follow-up question...

…for the respondents who claim Trump’s presidency has been worse than they expected.

“What did you expect it to look like?”

For me it’s been worse than I expected, and I expected an absolute disaster.

[Paladin]

21. It was already obvious that there are a lot of stupid people in this country.

trump, with a 44% approval rating. Thanks for nothing, dumbfuck Americans.

[spudspud]

22. 51% of respondents in that first poll are dolts with the attention span of an amoeba.

About 400,000 people died in the US under his watch, from COVID. A number that probably wouldn't have happened had he been a competent leader instead of talking about cleansing your insides with like bleach or shoving a light bulb up your butt to kill the virus.

[rubbersole]

26. CONVICTED of 34 felonies should have been their first clue.

Add "my boxes" filling mar-a-lardo and you have to be incredibly stupid to think otherwise.

[JohnSJ]

30. How stupid can people be? He told you exactly what he was going to do.

[jimmy the one]

31. A meaningless poll

Better than expected? Subjective - compared to what? Dems could pick this.
Worse than expected? Compared to what?
22% 'about the same' includes dems republicans and indies who think it's either hell on earth, or heaven, or a shoulder shrug.
And it is one single poll, and a single polls results need be corroborated with at least another reputable poll to gain credibility.
Yes the field average of recent reputable polls show trump approval slipping to the mid 40's, and this poll merely backs that up.
An extremely meaningless poll.

[birdographer]

32. Definitely worse than I expected

and I expected a pure shit show. But I did not factor in Musk, a singularly horrible person in every way having unlimited power over everything, with no constraints and no accountability. He is far worse than donny, in my opinion.

[angrychair]

33. Hold on...

This poll is saying that 52% of people think it's the same or better since he became president?!?!?!?

This is why you can't trust polling.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

37. That's why you can't trust people in this country. Why else is Trump and the Reps still running things?

Right now, Republicans are more worried about Teslas because by burned than all the people being harmed. Sorry, but most people are assholes.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. What were they thinking?

Some people have severe memory problems.