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Donald Trump's Approval Rating 'Underwater' for Six Months: Expert

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Donald Trump's approval rating "underwater" for six months: expert

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten said the president was "underwater on every major issue."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

9.9.25
President Donald Trump's approval rating has been "underwater" for six months, a data expert has said. Harry Enten, CNN's chief data analyst, said the president has been "swimming with the fishes" for "the vast majority of his second presidency" because of poor polling. Enten said: "I do see something of a pattern. Sometimes we lose the forest for the trees but I want to look at the forest and it is one ugly duckling forest that we are looking at for Donald Trump." He added that an aggregate of polls showed that Trump's approval rating has been negative every day since March 12. "We're talking about 181 days in a row in which Donald Trump has been underwater, swimming with the fishes," he said. This length of time is "the vast majority of his second presidency," he added. On specific issues like crime, immigration, the economy, foreign policy and trade, Enten said that "Donald Trump is underwater on all of them." Enten attributed this shift to "two key groups," Hispanics and people aged between 18 and 29 moving away from Trump.
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Trump is failing on all of his 2024 campaign promises. Grocery prices are a very real issue now for most Americans.

But Trump wouldn't know and doesn't care. Billionaire Presidents don't go grocery shopping. Trump had never even heard the word "groceries" before 2024. Your struggles are not his problem.

"All you slackers need to get another job!"
 
Rogue Valley said:
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump's approval rating "underwater" for six months: expert

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten said the president was "underwater on every major issue."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com



Trump is failing on all of his 2024 campaign promises. Grocery prices are a very real issue now for most Americans.

But Trump wouldn't know and doesn't care. Billionaire Presidents don't go grocery shopping. Trump had never even heard the word "groceries" before 2024. Your struggles are not his problem.

"All you slackers need to get another job!"
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Actually, the way Dysfunctional Donald looks at it, working is for losers. It's far better to just be rich and powerful.
 
Rogue Valley said:
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump's approval rating "underwater" for six months: expert

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten said the president was "underwater on every major issue."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com



Trump is failing on all of his 2024 campaign promises. Grocery prices are a very real issue now for most Americans.

But Trump wouldn't know and doesn't care. Billionaire Presidents don't go grocery shopping. Trump had never even heard the word "groceries" before 2024. Your struggles are not his problem.

"All you slackers need to get another job!"
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It's been proven that he's a lying, thieving POS.
 
There is a benefit to working for a paycheck that the rich and powerful do not get.

When you work for a living and earn a paycheck, you learn to value your time off. As a worker, you are essentially rented business machinery. The employer buys your time and you do the job for the allotted time. But then, when quitting time comes, your time is your own. You can get a break from the stresses of work and do your own thing, exercise your freedom. Kick back and enjoy life. Weekends are wonderful.

It's a freedom the rich do not know, nor one can they identify with. Wealth comes with obligations, which cause stress. If the rich work, it is often at something in a managerial position. Making big decisions which have big repercussions if you get it wrong. Worrying about what will happen if this is done or that is done never goes away. There is always another big decision looming. People are depending on you. Investors want an ROI. It is up to you to deliver. If you have invested money in some venture, then the pressure is on for that to generate a profit. And along the way people's lives hang in the balance. You get to decide how much of your own time to put into this, but the pressure is always there. You can take all the time off you want, but that won't change the circumstances associated with your decisions. Are you going to be ethical about what you do? How do you define that? Knowing there might be better results if you risk lives and the environment creates a temptation to cave on morals. If you do, you must then live with your decisions for the rest of your life, knowing the wealth you own and manage has that taint attached to it. If you were born into wealth, is it really clean money? Or is your entire life based on oppression of the less powerful? Sure, you can take some time off and go relax on a yacht or a remote villa or something, but the fact you are living such a privileged life and what paid for it never goes away. There are no such things as weekends the way workers know them.

It is a very big question whether a life of of privilege and wealth leads to more happiness and satisfaction than a simple working life.

Who smiles more? Workers or billionaires.
 
He’s been covering every square inch of the people’s White House in gold while it’s been getting harder for the average family to make purchases or put food on the table.

The optics of tearing up the Rose Garden to put in a country club patio to host lobster dinners with billionaires, all while taking away Americans’ health care and nutritional assistance, aren’t great!
 
element94 said:
He's nothing more than a criminal disgrace to this once proud nation, and an international embarrassment.
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Sad but absolutely true. His immaturity is an embarrassment to himself and others.
 
Peacenik said:
There is a benefit to working for a paycheck that the rich and powerful do not get.

When you work for a living and earn a paycheck, you learn to value your time off. As a worker, you are essentially rented business machinery. The employer buys your time and you do the job for the allotted time. But then, when quitting time comes, your time is your own. You can get a break from the stresses of work and do your own thing, exercise your freedom. Kick back and enjoy life. Weekends are wonderful.

It's a freedom the rich do not know, nor one can they identify with. Wealth comes with obligations, which cause stress. If the rich work, it is often at something in a managerial position. Making big decisions which have big repercussions if you get it wrong. Worrying about what will happen if this is done or that is done never goes away. There is always another big decision looming. People are depending on you. Investors want an ROI. It is up to you to deliver. If you have invested money in some venture, then the pressure is on for that to generate a profit. And along the way people's lives hang in the balance. You get to decide how much of your own time to put into this, but the pressure is always there. You can take all the time off you want, but that won't change the circumstances associated with your decisions. Are you going to be ethical about what you do? How do you define that? Knowing there might be better results if you risk lives and the environment creates a temptation to cave on morals. If you do, you must then live with your decisions for the rest of your life, knowing the wealth you own and manage has that taint attached to it. If you were born into wealth, is it really clean money? Or is your entire life based on oppression of the less powerful? Sure, you can take some time off and go relax on a yacht or a remote villa or something, but the fact you are living such a privileged life and what paid for it never goes away. There are no such things as weekends the way workers know them.

It is a very big question whether a life of of privilege and wealth leads to more happiness and satisfaction than a simple working life.

Who smiles more? Workers or billionaires.
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This song says it all.

 
Stealers Wheel said:
This song says it all.

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The song has a good message but there was no reason to make it religious. The song makes a good point but then in my view spoils it by forcing the audience to go to church whether it's their thing or not. It's a good message as it is. The message is perfectly capable of recognition on it's own. I see the propensity in song writers and performers to take a perfectly good message and go religious with it as a crutch. Doing so automatically ropes in the Christians. But increasingly, in this age it turns off a segment of the audience as well.

Good art does not have to lean on religion.
 
hooligan said:
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It's a ****ing cult....
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LOL!

People know it when they have days left over at the end of their money.

You can fool all the people some of the time; and you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can't tell people they have money in their pocket when they do not. They know whether or not they have money.
 
Rogue Valley said:
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump's approval rating "underwater" for six months: expert

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten said the president was "underwater on every major issue."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com



Trump is failing on all of his 2024 campaign promises. Grocery prices are a very real issue now for most Americans.

But Trump wouldn't know and doesn't care. Billionaire Presidents don't go grocery shopping. Trump had never even heard the word "groceries" before 2024. Your struggles are not his problem.

"All you slackers need to get another job!"
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Who wants to go shopping? You have to take the license plate off your car and all that jazz. It's too much of a hassle. He should look into that.
 
Peacenik said:
The song has a good message but there was no reason to make it religious. The song makes a good point but then in my view spoils it by forcing the audience to go to church whether it's their thing or not. It's a good message as it is. The message is perfectly capable of recognition on it's own. I see the propensity in song writers and performers to take a perfectly good message and go religious with it as a crutch. Doing so automatically ropes in the Christians. But increasingly, in this age it turns off a segment of the audience as well.

Good art does not have to lean on religion.
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I'm disappointed that someone expressing a facet of their faith in such a benign way offends you.

We're all atheists until we clog a toilet - in someone else's house!
 
hooligan said:
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It's a ****ing cult....
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U.S. electricity rates are up in 2025, with national average residential prices increasing by about 6.6% compared to the previous year, reaching 17.47 cents per kWh, driven by factors like higher demand from AI data centers, extreme weather, and utility investments in grid upgrades. This trend is expected to continue, with specific regions like the Pacific, Middle Atlantic, and New England seeing higher-than-average increases.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ele...03TKok8QWz0vNtN0yqJA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
 
The fun thing for maga is you cant outrun prices. Biden had this problem. And now trump does. There is nothing you can do about. You cant stop how people feel.
 
Peacenik said:
Gotta be a lotta stress to live a lie like that. Pretending he's a good person, but knowing he isn't.
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Yes. The richest man in the world is addicted to large amounts of Ketamine just to stay half way sane.

Trump needs to call his doctor. Might do him some good.
 
Stealers Wheel said:
I'm disappointed that someone expressing a facet of their faith in such a benign way offends you.

We're all atheists until we clog a toilet - in someone else's house!
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I wasn't offended. Just disappointed that once again somebody else's religion has been thrust in my face as if everyone wants that. I don't go around trying to force other people to adopt my beliefs, so naturally I simply do not appreciate it when others do the thing to me which I would consider it rude for me to do it to them.
 
The AntiDonald said:
Yes. The richest man in the world is addicted to large amounts of Ketamine just to stay half way sane.

Trump needs to call his doctor. Might do him some good.
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It won't. Trump would believe he knows the doctor's job better than the doctor, and subsequently tell the doctor what to do. He thinks he knows better than everybody else because he's "perfect man."
 
Peacenik said:
Sad but absolutely true. His immaturity is an embarrassment to himself and others.
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The constant lying undermines what little (micro level) seriousness he can muster. No one on earth, except you know who, takes him seriously as a president of the U.S. on any level. They laugh at him and us.
These guys are certainly laughing at TACO.
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Peacenik said:
I wasn't offended. Just disappointed that once again somebody else's religion has been thrust in my face as if everyone wants that. I don't go around trying to force other people to adopt my beliefs, so naturally I simply do not appreciate it when others do the thing to me which I would consider it rude for me to do it to them.
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Do you get "disappointed" every time you drive down a street and see a chapel?

And you are concerned that this song is trying to FORCE you to adopt their beliefs?

Can I assume that ANY expression of religious faith is offensive to you?
 
Stealers Wheel said:
Do you get "disappointed" every time you drive down a street and see a chapel?

And you are concerned that this song is trying to FORCE you to adopt their beliefs?

Can I assume that ANY expression of religious faith is offensive to you?
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Trying to force me to believe through harassment? It will not work.

Trying to make the discussion about the other person is harassment.

Internet abuse can only be sustained with the cooperation of an enabler.

When this pattern is begun it falls upon the individual allowing it to make a decision whether or not to allow it to continue.

It is very unwise to become an enabler.

The prudent course when such harassment is encountered is to inform the abuser that it will not be allowed to go on.

It shall not in this case.

It would be preferable if acknowledgement of the situation serves as a wake-up call and the abusive behavior is then ceased. That allows continued polite conversation thereafter with an understanding and mutual respect. If the abusive behavior is not ceased the would-be enabler has no choice but to end any further conversation as the only recourse in preventing an abuser/enabler relationship from being established. That is where this conversation is now headed.

Hopefully, the course of the conversation changes and mutual respect can be restored. A cessation can still be averted.

To put things plainly: I recognize the freedom and right of others to believe whatever they want to believe and to engage in religion if that is their choice. I choose not to be a part of that. I enjoy music. I do not enjoy church music. I do not appreciate it when a musician decides to inject religion into a performance which was not presented as a religious event. I do not force my atheism upon others and I appreciate it when others are careful not to force their religion on me. I have a choice of whether I want to go to church or not and I chose not to. That should be the end of it. Since many musicians seem to assume that everyone in their audiences wants to hear "Oh God" this, and "Oh lord" that, I am completely within my own right of free speech to say I do not appreciate that. When that shit comes on the radio I turn it off. If I'm at a show I will tolerate a song or two, but if it turns into a whole set I am outta there. That is my right. It is out of place to make fun of someone for simply holding their own views.

In other words. The religious may have all the religion they want. They need to keep it to themselves. Don't force it on others. That is crossing a line. It is not respecting the right of others to believe what they want. That is not appreciated.
 
Rogue Valley said:
www.newsweek.com

Donald Trump's approval rating "underwater" for six months: expert

CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten said the president was "underwater on every major issue."
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com



Trump is failing on all of his 2024 campaign promises. Grocery prices are a very real issue now for most Americans.

But Trump wouldn't know and doesn't care. Billionaire Presidents don't go grocery shopping. Trump had never even heard the word "groceries" before 2024. Your struggles are not his problem.

"All you slackers need to get another job!"
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I've spent over $1300 less on groceries this year so far than last year under Biden for a family of four, all things the same. Trump kept his promise to me. He's also kept many other promises, including fixing the border, improving crime (which democrats seem to be against), and attacking wokeness at every corner.
 
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