Trump's tanking polls show nobody is buying what he's selling
Recent polling data indicates a clear decline in Donald Trump’s approval ratings: he’s trailing by 13 points in the latest YouGov poll, 12 points in Quinnipiac’s results, and even Rasmussen — often favorable to him — shows him 5 points underwater.
YouGov reports, “Trump’s net job approval has dropped by 14 points since the first Economist/YouGov poll following his inauguration this year, when 49% of Americans approved and 43% disapproved.”
Opinion: Trump’s recent tariff reversal only confirms what critics have long suspected — he lacks the backbone for consistent policy.
It’s unusually early in a presidential term to see this kind of negative shift in public sentiment.
One possible reason? Trump’s presidency has been marked by ineffective leadership, particularly demonstrated in his outdated obsession with tariffs. His impulsive move to label a random day “Liberation Day” while launching surprise tariffs sent global trade into chaos, leaving U.S. markets bouncing between “extremely bad” and “barely tolerable.”
