I’m not shocked but highly dismayed that they manage to be a positive number at all.
Just remember even Nixon had a 24% approval rating before he left office.
for stuff like this, I like to look at the “net” favorability, because these polls ask separate questions about “approval” and “disapproval” to leave room for people in the middle that don’t feel strongly one way or the other. Here, the net favorability is -16%, which is still better than the worst day for most recent presidents. Biden, Carter, and Nixon all left office with worse net favorability. That said, being in the red is a bad sign for any president, but I also wouldn’t describe these numbers as “shocking”.
38% is in fact shockingly high.
Are they really “shocking,” though?
Not in the slightest, it’s literally the same as last time he was in office
I think this might be part of the whole “bring in military to crack down on protests”
Trying to throw red meat to the “law and order” crowd. Spin a narrative that these people opposing his gestapo are “mass looting and destroying our cities” intentionally escalate the situation by throwing national guard and marines at the situation, then position him self as the only person who can handle it.
Specifically, it’s for the rural folks who have been slipping in their unfaltering support for him due to his fucking with their economic situation. The disruption and halting of a lot of programs and subsidies for farms has been legitimately horrifying for a lot of them, as have been the counter tariffs on American food exports. Not to mention the worries about being unable to get seasonal labor for farms. Like a lot of people in these communities were all in for trump, but, now the flags are coming down and the hats are off.
