A new poll found more Americans are unhappy with Donald Trump's stances on the economy and cost of living, with almost twice as many saying the president has helped raise prices rather than lowering them.
In a Yahoo/YouGov poll conducted Nov. 21-24, 49% of respondents said Trump's actions since taking office for his second term in January have raised prices instead of cutting them. That's a nearly two-to-one ratio to the 24% who said he's done more to lower costs.
The survey also found more Americans (38%) blame Trump for inflation than his predecessor, former President Joe Biden (31%), despite the now-president campaigning on the economy during his successful 2024 presidential bid.
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Devadander@lemmy.world · 104 pts · 280d
So nothing’s changed. Still 1/3 of the country accepts this man’s lies eagerly
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 280d
The absolute floor is maybe, maybe 22%. That's the cult that will always follow him.
And what's sitting on the edge right now
I would guess the polls are written with some bias in questioning and we hit an absolute low in polling of just under 30% if we have direct air "support" in Venezuela. If he dares to actually put boots on the ground there officially then no poll phrasing can keep him above 25%.
Another drop would be a public support of Israel (apart from maybe with Iran as that's for some reason ok with Americans). But any large news story of Israel acting hostile to its neighbors enough that even the New York Times has to report it, well, shits quiet in Israel for a reason right now. Trump doesn't want to lose more favor with the MTG portion of his party that are on the right side of history for all the wrong reasons.
Edit: not to say Israel isn't continuing genocide and settlement expansion. It is. But it's being careful to not hit the point that liberal media would be forced to report it. The recent execution video in the west bank was apparently not enough for the western media to care.
zenitsu@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 280d
The clown still having a ~39% approval rating is absolutely insane
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
So many European elected politicians would love to have such a high rating... I'm always surprised at the high numbers in the US.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 279d
Having fewer parties is a big boost. So is the propoganda apparatus the right has.
rayyy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
The US has the best propaganda and dumbest people.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
That's probably about right - Nixon left office in utter disgrace, according to the general mainstream narrative. However, nearly 1 in 4 Americans still approved of him at that point (24%). And that's when the media was thought to be "liberal", LOL.
These days the media is even LESS "liberal" than it was back then due to the blatant disinformation campaign launched in the wake of Watergate: Faux, hate radio, Breitbart, and the brosphere on podcasts and Youtube, not to mention the amount of delusional copium that is permitted on social media platforms like Xitter and FBIBook, etc....so I'd be genuinely surprised if Taco's numbers went below 24%.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 279d
You may need to check your math there. It's less than 1/4 based on this article. The missing quarter shouldn't be omitted, these are apathetic people that have no opinion, which means they don't believe Trump.
Devadander@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
dhork@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 280d
It doesn't matter what Americans say anymore. Trump can't run again. If he manages to hold on to power past Jan 2029, he won't need popular opinion (or votes) to do it.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 280d
Really?
-Trump on July 27, 2024
dhork@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 280d
Exactly, if Trump is still President past Jan 2029, he won't need an election to do it. We won't have to vote!
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 280d
Say what you will about Trump, but he delivers on his campaign promises. Albeit with a monkeys paw.
Of course, his supporters thought he was exaggerating or talking hyperbolically. They believed him when he claimed to never know about Project 2025. And maybe he really didn't, who knows. Its pretty clear he doesn't know wtf he's doing or even where he even is most days. He talks out of his ass constantly. But they find that endearing, I guess.
Its funny, the same people worried about a shadow government, rounding up citizens for FEMA death camps, poisoning our water supply, etc...elected us a guy who did and does all those things. Proudly, even.
Personally I think a political leader, while they should be likeable (I mean, that should be a bare requirement to even get anywhere in politics in the first place), they should also be composed, professional, respectful, and even if they disagree with you, do so receptively and constructively. He is none of these things, and they think that makes him great. Really it just makes him a baffoon and makes the entire country a laughing stock.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 280d
Soggy corpo middle manager types are unelectable anymore
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Now that the Right Wing Authoritarians (RWAs) got a taste of the China White that is the likes of Taco, they aren't going back to the methadone like RMoney or Jeb! or Lil Marco, that's for sure.
They got a taste when McCain's people picked Palin. That was just a prelude of the stupidity, incompetence, and pure nastiness that was to come.
They'll be looking around for someone else they feel has Fuck You Money and also Says What I Think (meaning, they say racist and misogynist things). Along with some cover story about how they are Good At Bidness (TM), because they always go for some of the very stupidest ideas, and one of the very most idiotic of ideas that so many Americans cling to no matter how ridiculous is that The Country Should Be Run Like a Business. Because, something something, argle bargle, "efficiency". 🤦♂️
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
He'll need to be dead. That should be the ONLY acceptable result for anyone in a third term.
They wanna talk about third term abortions? Let's show em.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
This quote has me worried for what comes next. And has since the election.
Although I remember hearing it closer to October when they had the debates.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 279d
And more recently, even he's admitted he can't.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 280d
Well his whole campaign was about tariffs AND lowering prices. The two don’t mix, America! This is not new news.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 280d
Maybe not to the rest of us, but it is news to the MAGA crowd!
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 280d
"Adding things make thing go up big? No, ugg, add thing make thing go down small" -the average tRUMP supporter
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
cHiNa wIlL pAy tHe tArIfFs. Also, tariffs are not taxes, bro!
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 280d
They could mix if done in very specific ways, but there's no way in hell Trump could do that. I'm not even sure anyone could do that anymore.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 279d
What specific ways can adding tariffs lower prices? The entire concept involved raising the price of foreign goods so that more expensive local ones can compete. The net result is ALWAYS higher prices on those goods. Often to more than the expensive local one cost to begin with, as they raise their prices just under that of the tariff price
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 279d
Basically very rarely you will get a situation wherein putting a tariff on specific foodstuffs will lower the price, but you also need to incentives to lower export as well. Like I said I don't even know if it's technically possible anymore since the last time I know of it working was back in the 1800s in South America.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 280d
Well, his all of his campaigns were about assuring his voters that nothing going wrong with the country was there fault in any way and they wouldn't have to change their behavior at all to fix it. Tariffs was just something he fixated when he didn't know how to deliever.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 280d
Who are these 24% of people that think Trump has lowered prices?
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 280d
Those are the people that voted for him. Remember that 64 percent of the voting age voted in 2024. 49.8% of the voters were for Trump and 48.3% for Harris.
49.8% of the 64% of those who voted is about 32% of the total voting population.
Of those, majority still believe him.
So if 2:1 believe he raised prices, that actually tracks, given that 1/3 voted for him, 1/3 did not, and 1/3 did not vote.
66% didn't vote for him or 2:1.
The real issue is that those 1/3 that didn't vote, could have helped prevent this. Hope they learn, some will, but who knows.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 280d
Many are disenfranchised for some reason or another.
velindora@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 280d
And I love they’re getting what the voted for.
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 280d
I meant to say Disfranchised: That means they can't vote, and in the US that's often for systemic reasons. Don't like that Black people can vote? Make having a felony disqualify you from voting and disproportionately police and prosecute black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement
velindora@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 280d
Oh I see
Lupus@feddit.org · 18 pts · 280d
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
It's not okay to only quote this genius moment!
https://youtu.be/hYTQ7__NNDI
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
Dumbass redhatters that could be living in a tent and wondering where their next meal is coming from, but so balls-deep in the Faux-fic and so filled with hate for most of America that they are chugging any copium about Taco.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 279d
They look at the price of eggs and forget everything else
rumba@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 280d
What planet do the 30% who responded that things are cheaper live on?
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 280d
The 30% that are always against society progressing
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 280d
hmm interesting point. They can afford the new price so it's an advantage to them. A new way to keep the poor down.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 280d
There are the poor and destitute amongst that 30% too, they tell themselves that things aren't more expensive because it will challenge their understanding of the world
Soup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
They also just blame someone else. “Things are more expensive but they’d be worse if My Guy wasn’t in charge” is a big angle for these morons.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
I have seen the mush-brains sit there and imbibe outrageous whoppers like "Biden had a terrible economy and we have to wait while Taco with his brilliant Business Brain (TM) help us to dig out of the horrible mess Biden and his autopen left us" so I know they are capable of believing outrageously ridiculous horse manure.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
^ This.
Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 279d
In the US at least, if you look at the entire TOP 30% of earners, the majority of that group would have five-figure incomes. Not destitute, but the exact kind of middle/working class incomes where people are getting beat down by prices.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 279d
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 280d
Americans are VERY Smart Peoples!
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 280d
And smart people don't like Trump
SkellyMonstera@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 280d
The amount of people I see on facebook calling the polling bullshit is insane. Everyone just writes it off as only dems being polled, etc etc. I know facebook is an absolute shitshow to begin with, but how much of these piles and piles of comments are just propaganda bots doing their thing?
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 280d
A lot are propaganda bots. I don't trust a damn thing on Facebook, even the ones saying opinions I agree with.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
Bots, bots everywhere.
Do not read, nor listen to anything on FB other than your family & friends actual personal posts. Not repost, memes, etc.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 280d
How do the bots infiltrate people's social circles? Like who is seeking out and befriending these bots? Maybe I don't understand how FB works as I stopped using it like nearly 20 years ago.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
Some people collect "friends" without vetting who's who. In addition, there are a lot of Spam accounts that show up on main feed pages and people interact with those. Vast majority of it is political crap. Easily sucks people in to add their comment.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 280d
What's in the main feed pages? Is it just your friends? Or like your friends + n degree of friends? Or is it just like a random twitter collection of accounts?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
Friends +, then whatever random shit META feels like throwing at you.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 280d
Don't worry, there are plenty of rubes who believe that sLeEpY jOe and BARACK HUSSEIN are making everything more expensive at Walmart.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 279d
We needed a poll for this? We really are fucked.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 279d
Yes. To cite facts you need data. You can't base it on feelings or anecdotal evidence.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
To know how people feel about anything you need a poll.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
Doesn't stop the orange buffoon from making shit up anyways.
zd9@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 280d
doesn't matter, literally nothing matters as long as Fox, Newsmax, OANN, etc. exist, because the cult will still live in a different reality
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
I think I saw Meidas replay some clip where some dipshit talking head or one of Taco's thugs were repeating - as recent as last week - this bullshit narrative in the Faux Cinematic Universe about how Taco is still having to "deal with" a horrible mess that Biden left poor Taco.
I mean...where to even begin with this level of delusion. Yeah, the economy was in freefall under Biden. 🙄 And there was total chaos in the markets because every day different tariffs and trade agreements were being announced via a crappy Xitter knockoff site. 🙄 And Biden was spending every minute of every day finding ways to piss off our allies and so on....
The Faux-fic stuff is incredible, especially when you watch some moron spout the same thing nearly verbatim later, without one single thought in their head. It's like they are just walking around with a few tracks in their heads (the latest updates from the grievance networks they have brand loyalty to) they can press play on and they repeat them.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 280d
He endorses the self enrichment of the capitalist class. Their self enrichment is nothing but blood money at this point. Logically him and all his policies are just free game on looting American families by any means necessary without ethical government regulation. The lack of ethics and accountability has been bad for a long time already in this country but now it’s gloves off. We either revolt or end up in a pedo-tech bro feudal dictatorship as serfs who they allow to live as long as we’re useful.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
Welcome to the pedoeconomy.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
He's lowered the lost of living for the parasite class that only takes, they now no longer contribute to the society they are economically pillaging
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
Go ahead and slant the CPI reports too you fucking stupid idiot. The only people that care about the fucking things are people on wall street. Most people shop for their own groceries and can see with their own two eyes that prices are increasing. All but the most devout of your cult members can tell you that you're full of shit and inflation is still terrible.
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 279d
I appreciate reporters asking Trump about various concerns the people have, but some reporter or podcaster (if he goes on those any more) needs to all him if he is worried his inner circle is lying to him about things.
Like relentlessly press it in every gaggle. Go on FOX and say you're worried about it. (Yes I know FOX is participating to an extent especially with "cities on fire.")
The things he says certainly reflect his reflex to lie, but he's also saying things that don't reflect reality that he doesn't particularly "have" to lie about. It makes me pretty confident he's being fed false info.
rayyy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
All the orange felon/rapist/liar has to do is make promises of prosperity to farmers and they will follow him anywhere. Farmers eat that shit up.