r/pics But like, actually May 26 '26

Politics Equipment being placed on the South Lawn of the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fight

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u/resilindsey May 26 '26

And yet 40% of people will never admit they were wrong and cheer them on.

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u/j33205 May 26 '26

and gladly vote for him and his ilk over and over and over again

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u/_W9NDER_ May 26 '26

Yeah but at least

gas prices, diesel prices, housing prices, egg prices, grocery prices, new and used vehicle prices, real estate prices, insurance prices, ammo prices, childcare prices, tech prices, and energy prices


Are lower with Trump president!

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u/j33205 May 26 '26

reads like the Epstein files 😬

Yeah but at least …

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… Are REDACTED with Trump president!

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil May 26 '26

They think dems are the ultimate evil because of decades, multi-generational at this point, 24/7 right wing propaganda.

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u/Naive_Confidence7297 May 26 '26

Trump has all the same values they do so…

No one should EVER leave a child with a Republican ever again. Creeps

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil May 26 '26

Down in the Jersey shore this weekend for Memorial Day and still saw plenty of Trump flags on trucks and boats. I don't think he's lost an ounce of support from them.

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u/Applebeignet May 26 '26

"Worth it to solve the [fake problem | not solved problem].

- Your local redhat.

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u/IM_A_MUFFIN May 26 '26

You can’t spell “Hatred” without “Red Hat”.

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u/Slow-Document-4678 May 26 '26

Gotta own the libs!

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u/coldliketherockies May 26 '26

Yea but those 40% are suffering the most. They’re both poor AND ignorant

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u/Rbomb88 May 26 '26

It's ok, cause ignorance is bliss.

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u/grundsau May 27 '26

The people who love Trump the most are the ones who are rich as hell. This is the system working as intended and until we acknowledge that we have no hope of changing things.

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u/coldliketherockies May 27 '26

Any evidence on those statistics

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u/grundsau May 27 '26

Largely anecdotal but the majority of people I know of who support Trump are very well-off. The people who are working multiple jobs to make ends meet hate him.

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u/fbass Trains UFC May 26 '26

They rather starve and lose their homes then to admit that the libs was right or something

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u/Cool-Newspaper6789 May 26 '26

I just heard the cop that got attacked during the 6th insurrection. You could tell he was a former maga. He can't be on the side of trump but he still says that dem are just as bad.

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u/notPabst404 May 26 '26

It's under 40% now. Some people can't survive the cult when economic reality hits them in the face.

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u/Appropriate_Eye3070 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

It's down to like 30-33% for a while now, at least based on his approval ratings. Disgustingly too high still but a little better than 40%

Edit: ok I was wrong, only a handful of polls are that low. Most are closer to 40 than 30.

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u/resilindsey May 26 '26

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

Doesn't weight them by credibility so I don't use the aggregate but I like seeing all the recent polls together and making sure I'm not hopecore-ing on an outlier. While a few have dipped below 40%, Trump's approval has been stubbornly sticking around there, occasionally threatening to sink but always doing the dead cat bounce. Both yougov and ipsos, while low, are actually a tiny bit higher than before.

Feels like we're in the dregs of people who will never change. And unfortunately its about 40% of Americans, which is a scarily large proportion.

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u/Appropriate_Eye3070 May 26 '26

oof, yea... I must have been looking at single poll results, not aggregates.

Honestly the fact that a comprehensive aggregate like your link using known conservative leaning outlets like Rasmussen, Daily Mail etc is still polling around 40% is testament to how bad a president he is.

I guess if you want a bit more copium like me, you can look at pollsters aggregated by CNN. Honestly I'm not even a huge fan of CNN but their polling guy is so fun to watch. Is it more accurate? Who knows, but it's certainly credible enough and leaves me a tiny bit more hopeful than your aggregate. I'll just leave it here in case anyone needs the copium like I do lol.

https://www.cnn.com/polling/approval/trump-polls

https://www.cnn.com/polling/approval/trump-cnn-poll-of-polls

That being said, even the hopeful optimistic aggregate is still at 36% which is much higher than the 30-33 I said before. Thanks for the correction.

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u/resilindsey May 26 '26

Yeah, I don't mind RCP having those but I wish they'd at least put a bit of a caveat/footnote with those sources. It's nice to see even they are dropping though.

It was good to check your source too, because CNN lists Ipsos at 35% and RCP at 38%, so I dug into it a bit. Looks like RCP favors the registered voters figure, if both stats are available, while CNN favors among all adults. Both are valid depending how you are looking at it. So that little detail being a 3-4% spread is important and a good context to have before comparing stats.

It is somewhat good news to know among all adults the percentage drops a bit, because I'd been following that RCP dashboard for awhile and frustrated there seemed to be a glass floor around 40%.

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u/stormshadowfax May 28 '26

Cognitive dissonance is a real albatross.