a New York Times/Siena College poll of registered voters on Friday found that Trump’s approval rating is 42%, and just 29% among independent voters. More than half of voters said Trump is “exceeding the powers available to him”, and 59% of respondents said the president’s second term has been “scary”
Actually looks really similar to his first term, I would have thought it’d be a lot worse.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/04/23/trumps-job-rating-drops-key-policies-draw-majority-disapproval-as-he-nears-100-days/
It reminds me of the spate of articles 8 years ago about this; how headlines made mountains out of molehill changes in stats.
The fact is, about of a third of Americans would be pleased with orange-face no matter what he did or who got hurt.
All these leopard-eating-faces articles are just modern day morality plays ( the performance of drama about how the wicked or sinners get their justice, or tearfully beg for forgiveness). People been enjoying this even before the printing press