Trump's shock-and-awe start to his presidency isn't polling well

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Support for Donald Trump and the slew of executive orders he's signed since he reentered the White House is dismally low, according to a new poll from Civiqs conducted for Daily Kos.

Just 45% of registered voters approve of the job Trump is doing, while 52% are opposed, according to the poll, which was fielded Feb. 1-4.

Trump's support is even lower with independent voters. Fifty-three percent disapprove of the job he's doing, while only 43% approve.

The fact that Trump's job approval is this low just over two weeks into the job is a bad sign for him going forward. The beginning of a president's term is usually when they are at their high-water mark of support with voters.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/5/2301420/-Trump-s-shock-and-awe-start-to-his-presidency-isn-t-polling-well

[regnaD kciN]

1. Those "iNdEpEnDeNtS" must be experiencing buyer's remorse...

[GoYouPackersGo]

29. Thoughts and prayers nt

[GPV]

2. Still too damn high!

[Bluethroughu]

4. That's what I was thinking!

[liberal N proud]

41. MAGA is going to be difficult

They are so entrenched in the belief that he is their savior, they may never come around.

I have yet to hear one person say they should not have voted for it.

[Walleye]

3. He would get 40% approval no matter what he did. They are a cult.

[Bluethroughu]

5. Key words 40% of trump voters...

So he lost how many tens of millions, 60%, of supporters! In two weeks!

30 days this country will be toast and his numbers at 38% of trump supporters love their daddy.

[Walleye]

6. Mommy, help! Daddy's home and he's batshit crazy. Call the cops, he has a gun

[Bluethroughu]

9. He's shooting people on 5th Ave.

[Walleye]

10. And he's working his way uptown

[Bluethroughu]

13. Yep.

Elon has everyone's bank accounts along with treasury accounts...he's uptown and in the underwear drawer.

[Dan]

23. Well they were saying

That now the Musk’s techies only have read-only access. The sad truth is they already have all the data on some portable drives that they can access anytime. Plus combined with the backdoors that they have put into the system - the systems are totally compromised.

Now, this Sovereign Wealth thing that Trump is yakking about - means that they have a vessel to transfer and steal directly from the treasury. I wouldn’t be surprised if $1 Trillion dollars + comes up missing, loss, misplaced etc. .

[ShazzieB]

32. Read only access? Hmmm.

If they can't change the info, that's good. But as long as they can access it to read it, they can put it to all kinds of nefarious uses.

[Bluethroughu]

36. How did they stop payment if they only had read only???

[Bluethroughu]

35. Exactly...

Malware, Spyware, remote servicing bugs...

Espionage.

[JoseBalow]

31. No, that's 40% of all voters, over 90% of drumpf voters

His cult is all-in with the fascist takeover.

[Johonny]

7. Musk polling numbers not doing well either

And while he doesn't need votes, he does need that Trump shine. Word is Musk is beyond his sell by date and sinking fast.

[Bluethroughu]

12. He is a dead fish floating along stinking up the place.

He's done his work. He'll get kicked out soon and take his espionage to China or Russia and remotely steal for Putin.

That is unless the Military take our country back from these thieves...remember they have everyone's bank accounts!

[Wiz Imp]

46. GOP support for Musk influence with Trump falls dramatically

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5129353-gop-support-for-musk-influence-with-trump-falls-dramatically-poll/

The share of Republicans who say they want tech billionaire Elon Musk to have significant influence in the Trump administration has fallen substantially in the months since President Trump was elected.

In The Economist/YouGov poll taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans said they wanted Musk to have “a lot” of influence in the Trump administration, while 29 percent wanted “a little” and 12 percent wanted him to have “none at all.”

Today, however, the share of Republicans who say they want Musk to have “a lot” of influence has fallen substantially to 26 percent. Meanwhile, 43 percent of Republican respondents say they want Musk to have “a little” influence, and 17 percent say they want him to have “none at all,” according to the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov released Wednesday.

Surveyed Democrats and independents are also showing less desire for Musk to have a prominent influence in the Trump administration. Only 6 percent of each group say they want Musk to have “a lot” of influence. In November, 15 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents said they wanted him to have “a lot” of influence in the administration.

[Quiet Em]

8. Once again I see a huge gender gap

Men approve of Trump and his orders and women oppose.

[Walleye]

11. Men can be so easily impressed by a bully

[Bluethroughu]

14. That is until another strong man comes in and knocks him out.

Our military.

[Rebl2]

18. Well

many maga men have shit for brains.

[Dem4life1234]

47. They think he's some alpha when he is just a big toddler

It's often women who are brave enough to call him out for his bullshit.

[cab67]

15. How does this compare with previous presidents?

[Wiz Imp]

45. Lowest ever for this point in a Presidency

except possibly Trump's first term.

[Rebl2]

16. 45%

still to high.

[Martin Eden]

40. Insanely high

Maybe that percent will go down when his supporters look in the mirror and notice their faces have been eaten by leopards.

[diane in sf]

17. The 40% brainwashed into moronitude part of the population hasn't a clue. Fox etc. are selling the musk invasion

as “finding out where our taxes are going.” Cute…

[nowforever]

19. Great Depression 2025

Followed by WWIII might wake a few people up.

[cer7711]

20. 45% of the voters APPROVE what DJT is doing?! Who ARE these monstrous cretins?!

[censored bleep-scream]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would have hoped to see 10% approve, at best.
We are truly f--ed as a country if roughly half the people approve of what he is doing. (Though I suspect that percentage will dwindle further in the days to come...)

We are living the movie Idiocracy. And it's not a bit funny.

[Dan]

26. I really don't want to believe this, what I will say, but

I believe that white men just tend to believe other white men, and that since they are all part of that ‘wink wink’ club, they just don’t want to believe that white men would do white men, wrong.

[WOLFMAN87]

21. Project 2025 doesn't play in Peoria!

[ancianita]

22. The felon and his Heritage-cryptotechbro oligarchs do not give a rat's ass what the public thinks, says and does.

Again. We warned them. They'll have to learn the hard way. Again.

[senseandsensibility]

24. The fact that he got no honeymoon is being ignored

although it is very, very unusual. A false narrative that he is popular is being spun by the corporate media.

[Javaman]

25. no shock and awe about it. he's trying like hell to grab as much as he can before congress and the public catch on. nt

[lamp_shade]

27. He doesn't care. He got the job. Everybody can get lost.

[quakerboy]

28. it is polling extremely well

45% approval is insanely high for someone in the middle of overthrowing an entire system of government

[maxsolomon]

30. 80% of respondents probably have no clue what's being done.

75% probably don't know what "shock and awe" means, and 85% don't understand its meaning in this context.

it's just a generic approval poll.

[proud patriot]

33. and of those who still support him

How many are completely unaware of what he's doing because they don't watch news?

I would think as they become aware his numbers will tank even further .

I bet only between 15 -20% of his supporters are Fascist lovers

[odins folly]

34. I hate saying this because I would like to not believe it

But when you have no intention of ever leaving the job, you don't really give a flying fuck what polls say, what voters think, what any so called approval rating displays.

I'm here now, just try and make me leave when 4 years are up....

[NoMoreRepugs]

37. Where I come from we call it "Smash and Grab."

[Xipe Totec]

38. More choke & gag than shock & awe nt

[calimary]

39. Not dismally low enough.

But hey, just give him a little time. A VERY little bit of time, I suspect.

[Hassler]

42. The fact that he's polling better than gout

Speaks to the stupidity loose in Murca

[Meowmee]

43. Whatever happens many will still blame it on B and Dems

[totodeinhere]

44. Trump's approval is still higher than President Biden's at the end of his term last month.

CNN had him at 36%. Of course Biden's was much higher than Trump at the beginning of his term in 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/politics/cnn-poll-biden-presidency/index.html