The shift in approval happened faster for Trump than it did for his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
  • chase_what_matters@lemmy.world
    11·
    5 days ago

    A poll by CNN showed that 69 percent of Americans had a positive reaction to the address, while a CBS News and YouGov poll showed 76 percent approved of it.

    This is absolutely brigading bullshit. Ain’t no fuckin way.

    • aesthelete@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 days ago

      The only people willing to watch Trump spew two hours of straight lies are Trump supporters and political correspondents (and the large amount of overlap).

      I have only a finite time on this pale blue dot, and I am definitely not going to spend more of it listening to what a walking combination of McDonald’s characters (i.e. Mayor McCheese, Hamburgler, Grimace, and Ronald) has to say about the state of a country he’s constantly trying to run into the ground.

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
        3·
        4 days ago

        I literally cannot watch the man speak anymore. I gave up in like 2018 or something. It’s just the same incoherent misleading and nonsensical statements over and over. I can’t understand how anyone can watch it. Even reading what he says is difficult.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Yep, almost certain a sampling bias.

        Not much more scientific, but the YouTube suggestions showed me recordings from the speech from major national networks and they had like 1.5k, 1.2k, etc views. I gave that a chuckle.

    • StayDoomed@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 days ago

      It’s probably because most people that didn’t approve didn’t want to watch it in the first place because there’s nothing useful to hear.

        • imvii@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          It’s even worse because his mouth looks like an anus and his neck looks like a vigina. He’s a Cronenberg fever nightmare.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 days ago

      I happened to watch the segment on those stats. They clearly stated the stats would be biased to Trump. People tend to watch the state of the union if their party won election, so those polled for this were heavily republican.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
      22·
      4 days ago

      I’m I don’t know… Muricans elected donald knowing full well what he was about to do…

      I am certain trump is dumb and evil… I am NOT certain this is not what Muricans wanted

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 days ago

    Im not sure any of them care about approval ratings anymore. They got what they want. They’re just trying to figure out how to force the consolidation of power right now.

    • ceenote@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      It’s too early to take the black pill. All that’s needed for the House to be a check on the executive is 1 republican to cross the aisle. The less popular Trump is, the easier that gets.

  • oakey66@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    The fact that this is what it took is about as indicative of power decline and descent into straight up fascism as it gets. If Trump didn’t run in like a bull in the China shop, I’m fairly certain, it wouldn’t have gone negative.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    Biden’s approval rating went negative in September 2021, around seven months after he was sworn into office, while for Trump it’s been just over a month.

    • ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I’m going out on a limb and saying the approval ratings mean nothing. Some old guy told you he was going to dismantle the government, pick fights with other countries and has a positive rating but it goes negative when he does it? Either the approval ratings are BS or the people rating are idiots. Either way, that would mean the approval ratings are completely useless as a metric.

      • vortic@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 days ago

        You have to be credulous and in a news bubble that tells you he’s only doing good things. Either that or you need to be completely disconnected from the news; I think many are.