As the dust settles from the chaos stirred up by Trump’s return to office, the Q1 approval polls are rolling in, and they are less than flattering.
A recent CNN poll revealed that more than half of Americans are not happy with the direction Trump has taken the U.S. in his first quarter. Or, more accurately, the absence of direction he’s employed.
These disapproval metrics cast a wide and damning correlation to Trump’s sporadic and unpredictable executive orders over the first months of his return to the Oval Office.
A different poll released by NPR found his rating down six points from his return to DC in January. NPR’s final percentage of disapproval squeaked in with 51%, making it better news than what CNN had to share. However, a one percent difference in over half of those polled is not enough padding to soften the blow.
It seems even Trump’s most hardcore believers are realizing that just because something is ‘anti-establishment’ doesn’t mean it’s a smart long-term investment. With MAGA’s unifying desire to “own the libs” fulfilled and the afterglow of that satisfaction fading, there’s not a lot left to distract them from feeling abandoned.
The universal culprit in Trump’s tanking numbers is the palpable economic anxiety we are all subject to on the daily. Stacked onto that is Musk’s government overreach, which is angering libertarians who once backed Trump. This is burning a bridge with his younger voters as well. Many of them saw him as a ‘disruptor’, but now are starting to tune out the reality show.
Every time Trump turns his back on his strongest supporters he’s losing another handful of them. He seems too busy tearing down the fundamental systems of democracy to notice. It appears MAGA red hats are taking notice, and what they are starting to see is the same, stark future as the rest of the U.S.
