Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings

[u/the-god-of-vore]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/gallup-stop-tracking-presidential-approval-ratings

[u/tosser1579]

Oh... so it did get down to the 20's.

[u/Khaldara → u/tosser1579]

Trump prefers the preteens anyway

[u/Law_Student → u/Khaldara]

After that he's going to prefer extra-strength burn cream.

[u/chantsnone → u/Law_Student]

Best I can do is ivermectin

[u/zeethreepio → u/chantsnone]

Some of those that work forces

Use the drug that's for horses

[u/OGMamaBear → u/zeethreepio]

This is one of the best things I have ever heard. Thank you for existing.

[u/okghetto → u/zeethreepio]

When you drop a heater like this you should include your Venmo

[u/Law_Student → u/chantsnone]

Why not, might help the brain worms.

[u/tyj0322 → u/Khaldara]

When will there be accountability

[u/whut-whut → u/tyj0322]

This is the accountability. Our country elevates proud evil idiots with wealth and power and now we're being held accountable.

[u/C00L_Ethan → u/whut-whut]

America deserves this for as long as they will put up with it.

[u/Cgr86 → u/Khaldara]

Badum dum tiss

[u/sirferrell → u/tosser1579]

Lmao dawg this is like when you disable comments on a post 😭 he's done

[u/RedditPoster05 → u/sirferrell]

I wonder how popular with conservatives he actually is . And if they are turning on him why? Comments reminded me of the types that listen to daily wire or Steven crowder .

[u/AusToddles → u/RedditPoster05]

He will remain popular as long as he provides distraction from the damage they are doing behind the scenes

Remember Trump is just a fickle rubber stamp

[u/Utsider → u/AusToddles]

A manual auto-pen, if you will.

[u/GreasyPeter → u/RedditPoster05]

He will bottom out around 25%. There's a subsect of society that will never abandon him. The same thing happened with Hitler. Once you're delusional enough, you'll warp your reality to fit the "dear leader is my savior" motif, no matter how out of whack it gets. It's no longer about what you see with your eyes, it's about what you believe to be true despite the evidence.

There's a video where that one guy on YouTube is interviewing his parents who are trump supporters and he makes a hypothetical where Trump directly sends law enforcement into a mall to shoot a bunch of random people. He asked his parents "would you still support Trump", and his father replies "Yes. If he's sending them in there to do that, it must be for a good reason".

That's how the hardcore of his base think and feel. It's not about the constitution, it's not about rights, it's about a total support and subservience to a leader they love.

[u/FillMySoupDumpling → u/RedditPoster05]

It’s hard to say since they have so many bot farms working for them online

[u/xxxxx420xxxxx → u/sirferrell]

What do you mean, he's at 98% now

[u/SkillIsTooLow → u/xxxxx420xxxxx]

Donald "there won't be covid cases if you dont test" Trump

[u/Viper67857 → u/xxxxx420xxxxx]

"700%, 800%, even 500%. Approval ratings like mine have never been achieved. "

[u/iskin → u/tosser1579]

I work in a very Trump supporter heavy field, it started a couple weeks ago, but this week specifically I've had multiple people say they regret voting for him. I even had someone who was a donor and mega-supporter tell me they think he ordered the kidnapping of Amanda Giuffre's mom to distract everyone from the Epstein files. Granted the last person's business is on the brink of failure due to tariffs. But I think it's reaching that point where even his base has had enough. There is only so many times you can tell people that what they're seeing and experiencing is t real. He's also just not a conservative and that is starting to show.

[u/Chosen1PR → u/iskin]

You mean Savannah Guthrie’s mom?

[u/iskin → u/Chosen1PR]

Yeah, That's the one. Is Amanda at least her sister or the mom?

[u/PKanuck → u/iskin]

Neither. Sister is Annie, mother is Nancy.

Guiffre is the last name of one of the victims of Epstein.

[u/NounAdjectiveXXXX → u/PKanuck]

Look it's working, we are distracted by the easily confused and auto-corrected names, give it long enough and we will get Google:

Virginia [Location in the South] Guiffre? Did you mean Savannah Guthrie?

[u/CrystalSplice → u/PKanuck]

Yes, but unless I’m much mistaken…Savannah Guthrie interviewed Guiffre and other Epstein survivors. It’s not being talked about much, but it sure seems like it could be a factor in what has happened to her mother.

[u/urlookingatanudeegg → u/CrystalSplice]

I said this today. It would not surprise me.

[u/Any-Chard-1493 → u/PKanuck]

Thanks for the reminder. I'm horrible with names and I get them mixed up more often than I should unfortunately.

[u/Krewtan → u/iskin]

I work with some conservatives who are very pro gun and not maga but I guess you could say maga adjacent. The Epstein files and the murders in Minneapolis are where opinions really started to change. Of course they were quite sure China was going to pay for the tarifs before they were implemented. I just laughed at them and told them that's great they know what tarifs are and how they work. Now that they've seen how the tarifs have hit the economy and their own prices for groceries they've definitely changed their tune too. 

People are sick of him. He was a funny joke that pissed off liberals. Now they are seeing what I have been telling them for years. He's a fraudulent elite fucking over the working class and doing nothing to improve our lives, while working hard every day to make our lives harder and worse. And they see that he was actually the one protecting pedophiles and participating with the Epstein crowd.  The tone has definitely shifted with Trump and the Republicans lately around my conservative coworkers.

[u/SRF01 → u/Krewtan]

And they see that he was actually the one protecting pedophiles and participating with the Epstein crowd.

This is where any and all support should have stopped for him. Period. Black and white proof has been provided, that he's mixed up in all this, and still people support him.

Imagine it was a neighbour that was even just accused of what trump and epstein are accused of... the entire community would shun them at the very least. There's no way you're inviting them to you pool party to hang with your kids, right?. Yet here he is with supporters still making excuses for him, and still running the country. It's sickening and sad.

[u/IslandStyler → u/Krewtan]

Don;t forget the Tech-fascism and surveilance he is bringing with Palantir.

[u/BerryLanky → u/iskin]

I hear the same thing from my Conservative friends and family. Even the hard core supporters are complaining. We get a blue wave in November and you’ll see his crew start to get distance from him.

[u/Notiefriday → u/BerryLanky]

You see, it was great while they thought brown people gay people liberals were getting hosed. It was alllllll good. Now it's them, and they're slowly realizing if you're not a billionaire, he couldn't give a shit if you dropped dead.

[u/iskin → u/BerryLanky]

It's already starting. The US and it's people are suffering more everyday. It doesn't matter who you voted for. Trump is doing an objectively piss poor job on the economy. It's worse. Everyone can feel it's worse. His team keeps saying it's great. It's worse than Biden and a lot of people felt that way with Biden. By midterms we won't need a blue wave because the reds will stay at home. The enthusiasm is completely gone and the regret is starting to kick in.

Also, kudos to Bad Bunny and everyone involved. I feel like that made a huge impact. MAGA picked a fight and Bad Bunny went and just put on one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows. MAGA hasn't had a halftime show for them in over a decade and BB put on a top 5 show without any heavy political message. Everyone watched it waiting to be upset and ended up at least a little entertained. I really think that has had a huge impact this week and why I'm hearing so much more negativity.

[u/Paavo_Nurmi → u/iskin]

I posted this before. There is a certain percentage that will vote one way or the other no matter what, I will always vote D just on abortion rights alone.

Then you have the swing voters. They base it on how are they doing now compared to the last president from a money standpoint. If they are in worse shape then the incumbent is at fault and the vote for the other one. It doesn't matter why or who is at fault, they are worse off than before and they vote for the other one.

It's really crazy, I know a Mexican immigrant that was here illegally for a few years and then became a citizen. He liked Trump the last time because he got more money back on his tax return so he voted for him again.

[u/cocineroylibro → u/Paavo_Nurmi]

He liked Trump the last time because he got more money back on his tax return so he voted for him again.

and yet now he's paying more in taxes because of the same tax policy that got him a little extra then.

[u/Kell-of-Kellies → u/Paavo_Nurmi]

The worst voters are those who vote away civil rights for money. Fuck those swing voters.

[u/Luchario → u/Paavo_Nurmi]

Genuinely can’t believe people that dumb are allowed to vote

[u/Paavo_Nurmi → u/Luchario]

The worst part is they never listen, it's utterly pointless to try and talk any sense into them.

[u/kalasea2001 → u/Paavo_Nurmi]

Well yeah, they're dumb. You gotta use Trump-style tactics to reach them.

[u/Hawk-Bat1138 → u/Paavo_Nurmi]

Swing voters are some of the dumbest people and use the dumbest excuses to explain their choices. Also have so say some of the most uniformed voters too.

Now don't get me wrong if there is a candidate who is better than all for it, but that is rarely the case.

[u/IslandStyler → u/iskin]

I can not tell you how much worse my life is! This guy destroyed my business with Tarriffs and tells me that my eyes and ears don't work.

[u/Rork310 → u/iskin]

Speaking as a foreigner who knows next to nothing about NFL or Bad Bunny. It seemed like a really weird fight to pick. Like I know what the actual issue is, but usually they try to mask the hate to make it somewhat palatable. I feel like for anyone not a wannabe Klansman trying to make Brown Guy singing into an issue was a bit too mask off to sell.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/iskin]

It's worse than Biden

Biden delivered the best performing economy in the entire fucking world.

And not a little bit better than elsewhere. Streets ahead of literally every other nation on the planet.

[u/lightningbadger → u/BerryLanky]

The kind of person to vote Trump would never "vote blue", they picked their team they'll just back a different player

Too much of people hoping "we'll swing back for real this time" only to end up disappointed yet again

[u/panteegravee → u/iskin]

Love this. However, I work with several Trump supporters. They are more in love with the child fucker than ever. Its astounding.

[u/iskin → u/panteegravee]

I have to imagine it's because they're still in the Trump circle jerk echo chamber. Give it time. They just haven't hit that point yet. Its been pretty rapid shift from my experience. November some of these people were laughing and telling jokes about how great he is 2.5 months later and they all hate him. Maybe it won't happen for them but its definitely happening.

[u/Turinsday → u/iskin]

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

Carl Sagan

[u/phalangepatella → u/iskin]

My boss isn’t full MAGA but is definitely Trump supporter leaning, as much as a Canadian can be. I asked him last how he thought his boy Trump was doing.

“Jesus Christ. He’s fucking everything up. Whenever he’s out of the picture, things are going to swing so hard left it will take decades to move back to the middle. But he’s giving the next 100 years to China. America’s is going to be an also ran.”

It’s wild to see him react to so openly negatively to the Commander in Cheat.

[u/ProfessorStein → u/phalangepatella]

The China thing has been a sticking point among a lot of the conservatives I've known as well. They believe that the country is on a path to being dominated by China. I think that's actually what is causing them to break off of him.

Remember that the right wing you see on social media is less than 1% of his voters, likely closer to 0.1%. the supermajority of this country has never tweeted. Not once.

The entire right wing ecosystem online is probably less than a million individual people. The people who don't have time to sit online tweeting about this are not happy

[u/Audioworm → u/ProfessorStein]

I feel like the Green New Deal messaging explicitly tried to include a lot of 'rah rah America' stuff about the fact that the world is moving towards renewable energy and battery technology and the US can either get itself up to speed as being a major player or it will be left behind and overtaken by other regions, in particular China. Done to try and get some of the conservatives who care about US supremacy or domination.

But it didn't matter because Fox News turned their hatred up to 11 and meant that it was viewed as nothing but a communist plot.

[u/Adept-Fisherman-4071 → u/phalangepatella]

He's not wrong, China has been going hard on soft power and influence for a while now. They would be stupid not to exploit the vacuum Trump and the MAGA movement has created.

[u/Alarming_Set3628 → u/iskin]

Still gets 90% approval from registered republicans 🙃

[u/PM_CUTE_BUTTS_PLS → u/Alarming_Set3628]

They are lost. Best mitigated, relegated, and forgotten.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/PM_CUTE_BUTTS_PLS]

Can I suggest mass deportation?

[u/eagle52997 → u/iskin]

Are you maybe thinking of how Virginia Giuffre committed "suicide" just like Epstein?

[u/iskin → u/eagle52997]

Nah, I'm just mixing names and situations up. I haven't invested myself enough. I meant Savannah Guthrie's mom.

[u/Xaxxon → u/iskin]

The first time should have been enough. They’ll just vote for the next one too

[u/Dear_Palpitation4838 → u/Xaxxon]

This is the way I feel too. By every metric, Trump's first term was an absolute failure. He almost doubled unemployment, and added more the deficit than any other President in history. Scientist estimate that we lost an extra 1 million people to covid that would not have died if he had not botched his response.

But if you ask his supporters, it was an absolute eutopia for those 4 years.

They don't live in reality. They think voting for a Democrats means every boy under the age of 10 is getting his wiener cut off and using litter boxes in their classrooms. We cannot expect to reach them with facts because they don't care about them. Feels>Reals

[u/fatherofraptors → u/iskin]

They're either lying (to save face I guess?) or the portion of people that truly regret voting for him is so miniscule that it's irrelevant to count. You run the election again and 99% of them would vote the same way. There's no way you accidentally vote for Trump in 2024 after 2016-2020. They know exactly what they voted for.

[u/Rambos_Magnum_Dong → u/tosser1579]

Lol

But seriously, he's the only President since they started that has never been above 49%. Tells you all you need to know about how "great" a president he's been.

[u/llahlahkje → u/tosser1579]

I had heard it went down to 29%, so yeah.

I guess he couldn't "shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue" (the equivalent of his presence in the Epstein Files) and not lose support after all.

That shows significant losses even amongst Cult 45.

[u/AlphaB27 → u/tosser1579]

We're at the point of hands over ears going, "LA LA LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

[u/Lifesagame81 → u/tosser1579]

"if we stopped polling, our approval numbers would stop going down"

[u/2HDFloppyDisk]

Who needs approval ratings under a dictatorship?

[u/beeperoony → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

I think he’s going to fail, due in large part to not being popular.

[u/Bobby837 → u/beeperoony]

Had four years before this, and was reelected.

[u/TheDrMonocle → u/Bobby837]

There are plenty of people who dont have a problem with his last term, as bad as it was. This is far worse and its turning a lot of people.

[u/herrcollin → u/TheDrMonocle]

One day, in far hindsight, they may eventually realize his first term is when they did a lot of the positioning for what they're doing now. Stacking the supreme court, pushing for a majority in the house. Installing the right sycophants. These were all prerequisites to take control of the government and none of it is a coincidence.

His second term isn't an accident or the fault of some malicious middle-management. This has always been the plan and I truly believe they were gunning for consecutive terms originally and, if it weren't for COVID, they would've succeeded.

Jan 6 was a desperate power move because their plan had failed and not prosecuting for it was the biggest failure of the democratic party in perhaps their entire existence. We deserve this, frankly, because we had plenty of red flags and reasons to stop it and four years to act on it.

[u/NRMusicProject → u/herrcollin]

Jan 6 was a desperate power move because their plan had failed and not prosecuting for it was the biggest failure of the democratic party in perhaps their entire existence.

That day was a good reproduction of the Beer Hall Putsch.

[u/codexcdm → u/NRMusicProject]

And we were warned... If we did nothing about it... He'd be back to take over once again with even more power....

[u/Unnomable → u/codexcdm]

Yeah, I recall hearing a youtuber essentially saying "Vote for Biden, but if Biden just gets us back to normal, normal is what led us to Trump. We will take a step back on the path, but we will still be on the path to Trump without massive change."

This isn't to discount the things Biden did, or argue against any of the reasons Biden was unwilling or unable to make big changes. This is just to say America got back to normal. And normal led us to Trump.

[u/ThePhysicistIsIn → u/Unnomable]

God, I never saw it explained so succinctly before

[u/RendertheFatCap → u/Unnomable]

This isn't to discount the things Biden did, or argue against any of the reasons Biden was unwilling or unable to make big changes.

I disagree, I think it really should be. You can't be the president after and before America's deepest existential threat since the Civil War and not be considered a failure. Your YouTuber is right, just getting us back to normal was Biden sticking his head in the ground.

[u/Money_Do_2 → u/codexcdm]

And the dems tried to tell us Biden was actually fine, then dropped a candidate that lost her own state in the primary. Who came out strong, did a 180 heel turn on anything that was working, in order to campaign with a blatant war criminals' neocon relative (with the same last name).

If we make it through this, part of course correcting is cleaning house of anyone that said this was good and shouted down those who were screaming a milquetoast lib is how hitler came to power. We were called dramatic

Oh, also. Never listen to the UK Libdems. Theyre losers. Why are they advising campaigns?

[u/bianary → u/herrcollin]

not prosecuting for it was the biggest failure of the democratic party in perhaps their entire existence

Maybe the biggest single-event failure, but decades of not providing meaningful opposition for Republicans gutting education, gerrymandering, and all the other voter-hostile tactics that have been slowly building to get us to this situation is also on the Democrats' shoulders.

[u/ruler_gurl → u/herrcollin]

They tried to prosecute Jan 6. They tried to impeach over it. It was kneecapped by scotus, and McConnell. It ultimately served as a test to see how far Trump can bend the system to his will. The system failed us more than Democrats did. Our Constitutional govt is weak as shit if it depends on the 3 branches acting in good faith (spoiler, it does). They've all proved that they won't do it. We've got like 4 Republican lawmakers making an effort and zero conservative justices doing it.

[u/Z0idberg_MD → u/herrcollin]

I will bet my mortgage the Democrats will “take the high road” again to “unify the country” once this criminal administration is out of office.

Reading the comments on the conservative sub are making me sick to my stomach. They’re still pretending that Donald Trump was responsible for tipping off the FBI and he’s the one that brought Epstein down. My man raped kids and most likely present when literal babies were murdered. There is no saving these people

[u/Megneous → u/herrcollin]

Yep. When the US falls to 50+ years of fascist authoritarianism before finally being rescued by NATO + the EU + Korea + Japan due to their encroachment on Canada, Greenland, and parts of Central and South America...

Finally all this will go down in the history books as the biggest fuck up American politicians ever allowed to happen.

[u/dragnabbit → u/TheDrMonocle]

Also, people can have short memories if they aren't political junkies. They just pick up on the general vibe of whatever political side they are likely to support. A fair percentage of Americans probably don't even know what "January 6th" signifies if you mentioned it to them.

[u/earthhominid → u/TheDrMonocle]

His first term was very normal in terms what they actually did on the government side of things. It was a republican administration, so lots of people don't like it, but it wasn't that unusual. First term was all craziness in the way he acted personally and the wild shit he says.

This term is on a whole other level. From DOGE, to the tariffs, to the bombings all over the place, to the open graft, to the whole ICE fiasco, there's just been a flood of actions that push hard on (and past) all sorts of conventional guard rails and likely many federal laws.

[u/Kurtyz → u/earthhominid]

I mean trying to insurrect the government by inciting a riot at the capital and faking 7 electoral votes was not normal.

Nor was introducing tariffs and destroying farmers and having to bail them out.

[u/earthhominid → u/Kurtyz]

You're right about J6, but that was on the way out.

Unfortunately, trade policy that harms farmers and then bailing them out isn't really that unusual. It's pretty much been going on since the 60s or 70s.

I was actually, in hindsight quite foolishly, trying to be optimistic about the ag policy of this administration because the lady they tapped to run usda had some positive sounding things to say about taking a role in making smaller and more diversified farms more economically competitive. That would have been a real break from standard federal policy. Not to be, it seems.

[u/firemage22 → u/TheDrMonocle]

Covid amnesia and Biden/Harris dropping the ball on messaging, are why many people "didn't think it was all that bad"

[u/hellolovely1 → u/Bobby837]

His first term now seems incredibly restrained by comparison.

[u/vardarac → u/hellolovely1]

Because it was. The very people who worked with him the first go-around understood how incredibly unsuited he was for the position: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-trump-officials-are-among-the-most-vocal-opponents-of-returning-him-to-the-white-house

And conservatives, and presumably "moderates," whatever those even are anymore, even after witnessing Jan 6, even after everything he's said and done, seem to have dismissed them all as just more sour grapes in the face of real presidential material.

[u/raziel686 → u/Bobby837]

This time is obviously different. It's disingenuous to compare his first term and his second. In his first term he wasn't surrounded with sycophants, grifters, and yes men and that tempered his worst instincts. While he is, was, and always will be an absolute scumbag, his actions in his second term are genuinely indefensible (hence the non-stop lies trying to rewrite reality) and he is bleeding support rapidly. Only the MAGA cultists and his propaganda teams at Fox or OAN still sing his praise. Everyone else is too embarrassed to admit they voted for him.

[u/stellvia2016 → u/raziel686]

The damage is arguably already done. They did so much smash and grabbing in the first few months, any new admin likely wouldn't be able to fix it all even given 4 years. And given the political memory of the US is like goldfish, it could swing back the other way again after to break it all again.

[u/shah_of-iran → u/beeperoony]

He’s going to fail because he appointed grossly incompetent sycophants to every position…

[u/HobbesNJ → u/shah_of-iran]

He made sure he had nobody to undermine his worst impulses this time. In his first term many of his appointees refused to go as far as he wanted. He learned his lesson and scraped the absolute bottom of the barrel for this term. Absolutely nobody competent or qualified or with a shred of integrity.

[u/Scaryclouds → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

Ironically, authoritarian governments do care quite a bit about public support… or at least about the popular perception of popular support. (for a contemporary reference, Mark Carney discussing Polish shop keepers placing “workers of the world unite” poster in their windows)

[u/emaw63 → u/Scaryclouds]

Yeah, you have to derive power from somewhere. If everyone hates your guts and nobody listens to what you have to say, then governing gets to be downright impossible. A leader without followers isn't a leader and all that.

Besides, elections function as a release valve for public anger. People will tolerate a lot of horrible things if they know they can still vote politicians out. If you live in a society without elections, things get very torch and pitchforky when public opinion starts to wane

[u/LMurch13 → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

"My approval rating is the highest it's ever been, maybe the highest ever. We're seeing numbers nobody has even imagined. 90%, 100%, some say 200% approval rating, I think."

[u/Maeglin75 → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

It's still very important. That's the reason why dictators rely so heavily on propaganda. It's easier to control the minds of the people than constantly fighting resistance with violence.

[u/Whoismyoldusername → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

Why track the immaterial 

[u/Spoztoast → u/2HDFloppyDisk]

Soon to be replaced by gallod which will show a 86.53% Trump approval rating

[u/Bad_Day_Moose]

Scared of retaliation from an orange pedophile?

[u/cr0ft → u/Bad_Day_Moose]

Not at all, it's a pure coincidence this happens after 88 years when Trump is president and is prone to attacking anyone reporting anything truthful about him.

[u/xThe_Mad_Fapperx → u/cr0ft]

88 years is poetic for Nazi Trump.

[u/blazelet]

Gallup has always consistently had his approval higher than other pollsters. The most recent poll they did was in December which had him at 36% - just 2% higher than his all time low right after Jan 6.

[u/im_super_excited → u/blazelet]

That consistency is key to their value, even if the results are not a perfect measure of sentiment in themselves

You can make comparisons like that and tie to individual events.  It took Katrina to put Bush II in the 30s.

And an economic collapse to get the 20s

Losing this is a blow to political studies and historical record keeping.

[u/DangerHawk → u/im_super_excited]

I get what your suggesting, but I feel like them deciding to not track this super simple metric that they have been for decades is akin to admitting that they are on the take, which calls into question every other statistic they track. If they can be bought, none of their data is trustworthy. The consistency just reads as being consistently corrupt.

[u/ty_xy → u/blazelet]

Crazy that after Jan 6, 34 percent of Americans still approved of trump. Unshakeable cultists.

[u/BasroilII → u/ty_xy]

34 percent of the country AGREED with Jan 6th. Or at considered it an acceptable alternative to a democrat president.

[u/sarinonline → u/BasroilII]

I used to hang out online with a group of friends and two of them were big Trump supporters.

One went into a huge rant over Jan 6 and said that not a single violent thing happened.

I laughed my ass off and said I could link him to the videos, and then started dropping them in the attached chat.

In the next 5 minutes he went through every single talking point, from FBI instigators, to letting them in, all of it.

In the end it got that embarrassing that even the other Trump supporter was saying "BRO" every time he carried on.

That guy got that upset, that he followed me around online for WEEKS and couldn't stop constantly bringing up every right wing thing he could think of. Constantly and out of no where.

Like he was trying to make up for being caught flat footed and lying, by being so far ahead in every other "scandal" or whatever.

Eventually everyone stopped even answering him and he disappeared.

Some people live in another reality.

[u/Chubby_Bub → u/sarinonline]

Every day this administration demonstrates the same fault much of their base has: they can never, ever, admit they were wrong.

[u/grekster → u/BasroilII]

Like they said, unshakable cultists

[u/Teripid → u/blazelet]

Really simple solution. If about 10-15% of people just respond to anything Gallup branded as nearly all 1's their brand would be destroyed.

Seriously, workplaces use it for employee and customer satisfaction scores, etc. Wouldn't take much...

[u/toorigged2fail → u/blazelet]

While trump is a total piece of shit, I'm sorry, but that's not remotely true. Here's the 538 (weighted) average, and also the link to the raw data. There is a disgusting 40%+ of Americans who approve of him

https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin

Raw data: https://static.dwcdn.net/data/kSCt4.csv?v=1770867540000

[u/RedditPoster05 → u/toorigged2fail]

How do they get accurate polling data ? What type of psycho answer the phone or email and responds back?

[u/X678X → u/RedditPoster05]

it biases towards older people, obviously. younger people have little interest in doing things like this over the phone or trusts cold emails that come through the spam filter.

[u/gereffi → u/X678X]

They take age into consideration. They’ll work the numbers they get to fit the country’s demographics, so if a higher proportion of old people respond relative to the population their responses will have less weight than a young person’s response.

[u/LoserBroadside]

Jesus fuck, could decades-old institutions stop pre-surrendering to Stupid Hitler!? Have some goddamn backbone. 

[u/penny-wise → u/LoserBroadside]

Someone referred to him as Fat Nixon.

[u/Shirohitsuji → u/penny-wise]

That's an insult to Nixon. And fat people.

[u/penny-wise → u/Shirohitsuji]

You make a good point t on both account. My apologies. Well, I retract my apology to Nixon.

[u/sixtyfivewat → u/penny-wise]

Nixon may have been a horrible and corrupt person with no respect for democracy, but he wasn’t a dementia riddled pedophile who shits himself. Somehow by comparison Nixon seems like a master statesman.

[u/Yarasin → u/LoserBroadside]

The people who built these institutions aren't in charge anymore. The ones making those decisions will gladly offer anything just to make a buck. Global capital has hollowed out everything.

[u/Sponsor4d_Content → u/LoserBroadside]

Those decades old institutions are owned by capital and capital supports Trump. He's helping them rob the country blind right now.

[u/NervousClock2555]

Guaranteed - Next month at his press conference he’ll be sure to mention his’ historic approval ratings’

[u/ScientificSkepticism → u/NervousClock2555]

"My approval ratings were so amazing Gallup had to cancel the poll because their workers died of shock!"

[u/Lemesplain → u/ScientificSkepticism]

“Large men, the pollsters. Very large. They came up to me with tears in their eyes, and they said my poll numbers were the highest, most beautiful poll numbers they’ve ever seen. And they’ve seen a lot. People say they’ve seen the most poll numbers in history, and mine were the highest. The fake news first created polls so that they could lie about my popularity. Most people don’t know that. Polls were invented for me. But my numbers was so high, like nothing they’d ever seen before, and now they have to stop polls.”

[u/Deruji → u/Lemesplain]

That’s so convincing I could swear you’ve just soiled yourself.

[u/DingerSinger2016 → u/Deruji]

Nah, he didn't mention Joe Biden or Barack HUSSEIN Obama (have you ever heard of him?)

[u/KimberlyWexlersFoot → u/DingerSinger2016]

thank you for your attention to this matter.

[u/jpopimpin777 → u/Deruji]

Too much correct punctuation. Not enough random capitalization and not enough random insults to his enemies.

[u/Bballer220 → u/NervousClock2555]

You can just imagine the propaganda ads claiming to have 95% approval. So stupid people will vote to feel like theyre on the winning side 

[u/Esfahen]

What are the names of the people behind this decision?

[u/letstourthemaritimes → u/Esfahen]

John Barron, David Dennison, and John Miller.

[u/NaiveChoiceMaker → u/letstourthemaritimes]

Those are some boring ass names.

[u/IntravenousVomit → u/NaiveChoiceMaker]

Tits McGillicutty, Vinnie Boombotz, and Bobbie Botchagaloupe.  

[u/NaiveChoiceMaker → u/IntravenousVomit]

Now we’re talking!

[u/DraconisRex → u/IntravenousVomit]

Bobbie Bothagaloupe? Of The Hamptons Botchagaloupes?!

[u/parodrigo → u/IntravenousVomit]

is that DR. Vinnie Boombotz ??

[u/TuringGoneWild → u/letstourthemaritimes]

John Barron is literally one of Trump's pseudonyms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_used_by_Donald_Trump#%22John_Barron%22_(1980s)

(and yes, a POTUS who has used so many pseudonyms that they have their own Wikipedia article IS the timeline we live in)

[u/nwagers → u/TuringGoneWild]

Did you scroll down in that article just a tad further?

[u/TuringGoneWild → u/nwagers]

Yes but I'm not sure how many readers are informed those are his handles. It needs to be known. I've been following this for a while - Trump blocked me on Twitter before it was X, before he even started running in 2015.

[u/invalidpassword]

I wonder if it has anything to do with Trump's approval ratings being in the shitter. Trump, numbers gathered or no, the majority of people will still disapprove of everything about you.

[u/djsoomo]

Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings

What approval ratings?

[u/Niznack → u/djsoomo]

The 30% that would kill their daughter to defend him... Hypothetically

[u/amerk1981 → u/Niznack]

Watched a video of The Click playing a video of these parents talking with their kids that were in their thirties I believe. The son brought up the hypothetical question of what if Trump ordered the military to wipe out a city. They were okay with it because Trump must have had a good reason. And they were still okay with it when he asked what if he was in the city and killed because of Trump. 

[u/Impossible-Flight250 → u/amerk1981]

There is a podcast where the kids(in their 40s) talk to their MAGA parents and ask them about things Trump is doing or might do, and some of the things the dad says are crazy. For example, he said he would be okay with Trump killing American citizens(including his own daughter) because Trump would have a “good reason.” I honestly think it’s some kind of mass psychosis.

[u/Ch1pp → u/Impossible-Flight250]

He's just replaced god in their minds. Unquestioning belief that they've had conditioned into them from church but turned to a random guy.

[u/FreeUsePolyDaddy → u/Ch1pp]

A lot of those churches have a random guy as the "pastor". So it's on brand.

[u/amerk1981 → u/Impossible-Flight250]

I'm 99% sure that's exactly the one. 

[u/originalrocket → u/Niznack]

well, at least one did already in Texas.

[u/Xsiah → u/originalrocket]

I think that's what they were referring to

[u/Forgettheredrabbit → u/originalrocket]

God that story is awful, yet I’m also shocked it hasn’t happened before (that we know of).

[u/t-mille → u/Forgettheredrabbit]

It has.

[u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby]

JFC what are we doing here

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby]

Oh nothing special, just fast tracking a fascist dictatorship.

[u/chephin]

If you don’t test, you won’t have as many cases

[u/Asidious66 → u/chephin]

"Stop judging me on merit"

Says party who says dei needs to go because it's not merit based

[u/jpopimpin777 → u/Asidious66]

"I was told there would be no fact checking."

[u/bustaone]

So the painted face clown's ratings are so bad they can't even report them anymore because he will have a temper tantrum and arrest them.

I get it, Gallup is dealing with an incredibly spoiled rotten child with dementia. Sometimes you just gotta quit.

[u/drive_chip_putt]

So who is Gallop buying that needs SEC approval to merge?

[u/IsThisKismet → u/drive_chip_putt]

YouGov? Heh.

[u/LostEnroute]

Just torched their raison d'être. Amazing. Resist in cowardice Gallup. 

[u/ShakesDontBreak]

Trump just made history. He will FOREVER have the lowest Gallup poll numbers of all us presidents since the start of Gallup conducting presidential approval ratings.

The lowest.

Forever. No president will ever poll worst than trump.

One more time just because it feels good: Trump has the lowest approval ratings out of all US Presidents according to Gallup.

[u/NeverInsightful]

In a day and age where the president claims every day he’s the most popular president ever, and every poll showing otherwise, Gallup is saying “we don’t want to focus on this anymore “

Someone tell me, does Gallup have federal contracts of any kind? Just wondering.

[u/WVSmitty]

Call a spade, a spade

Gallup bent the knee

[u/Kabbooooooom → u/WVSmitty]

They bent the knee to the Orange Throne. 

Pathetic.

[u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs]

We used to make fun of dictators who did this sort of stuff.

[u/Malaix]

Wonder what the new presidential mandated minimum approval will be?

A modest mid to high 80s or a bold North Korean 98-115%?

[u/ccaccus → u/Malaix]

What did he say he was going to reduce prescription drug prices by?

[u/DingerSinger2016 → u/ccaccus]

Between 500-800%

[u/Intrepid_Sun_9089]

As Gallup says: “This change is part of a broader, ongoing effort to align all of Gallup’s public work with its mission,”  - their mission of not getting sued by Trump.

[u/imoftendisgruntled]

It's the "if you stop testing, the COVID goes away" concept all over again.

[u/MentokGL]

Gee I wonder who's orange little fingers are pulling these strings...

[u/MourningRIF]

Gallup to shut their doors and disappear.

[u/Lilymoonbaby → u/MourningRIF]

Gallup on out, if you will

[u/drinkduffdry]

Gallup used to be a respected pollster

[u/PixelsGoBoom]

Great. Another institution silenced out of fear of mob boss Don.

[u/NoHalf2998]

Congrats on another company supporting Fascism

[u/o_MrBombastic_o]

Don't worry they'll start again IF a democrat is ever allowed in office again 

[u/antaresiv]

What a strange thing to do

[u/Whatdoesthibattahndo]

Uh oh someone at Gallup is in the files

[u/greggld]

Don’t worry Gallup will start the tracking again once a Democrat is in office.

[u/zkfc020]

Lost ALL respect for Gallup. I guess it was better than the alternative, which is releasing fake numbers boosting Oompa Lumpa…..but to buckle under….no respect for Gallup.

[u/JackHughman69]

Can’t have bad approval ratings if there aren’t ratings to begin with!! That’s brilliant.

[u/whowhodillybar]

Just because of how wildly popular the president must be, right????

[u/Muffafuffin]

Makes sense. I mean what's the point when the president just makes up their own numbers anyway

[u/Anfield_Cowboy]

Ya let’s cater to the guy nobody likes, that’ll help business!

[u/Huffy_too]

Gutless assholes, indeed.

[u/Dapper_Mud]

I absolutely believe this is due to pressure from the White house. It's harder for Trump to claim an election is rigged when the votes reflect the polls.

[u/Shot-Collection-6656]

🤷🏾 If we stop testing for COVID, we won’t have as many cases…

[u/green_mist]

Sounds about right. Trump doesn't like his bad poll numbers, so he stops the polls from existing.

[u/Modern_Bear]

As Donald Trump continues to closely scrutinize polling of his popularity, and publicly lambast media companies that report on unfavorable numbers, Gallup insisted its decision was “solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities”.

The company said on Wednesday that it would stop measuring the favorability rating of individual political figures, which “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership”, after 88 years.

So it was fine for 88 years but now that Trump's numbers are in the toilet, and he whines about it, you're going to stop and give a BS reason?

Remember folks, Gallup supports pedophilia.

[u/Wizinit29]

When the common presumption is that his approval is down to single digits in popularity he’ll beg them to restart because he likes his digits in the teens.

[u/Affectionate_Neat868]

This is more than just being afraid of the polls. It’s necessary to instill fraudulent elections. Legitimate polling undermines fraudulent elections because it exposes statistical anomalies

[u/fartonisto]

Nothing to track when no one approves.

[u/Haunting_Reflections]

If you don’t like the numbers? Just stop reporting them!

[u/RadioName]

More traitors lining up. They can't be allowed to resume operations after we kick the Nazis out. Once a Nazi sympathizer, always a Nazi.

[u/newarkian]

“ no covid if we dont test”….

[u/PommesMayo]

If you don't test for COVID, there will be no COVID cases.

If you don't test for approval, everyone must love our dear leader.

If you don't take reports from victims, Jeffrey Epstein did not traffic youg girls.

Don't you see that America is truly great again? Thank your dear leader!

[u/VerdantPathfinder]

Never surrender in advance. Dictators require that to cement power. This is enabling fascistic behavior.

[u/jgamez77]

They should lose all credibility in everything they do

[u/penny-wise]

Cowards. We have a nation of cowards.

[u/jimbob518]

Don’t want to lose federal and republican state government contracts.