Donald Trump's Gen Z Popularity Plunges

[Wicked Blue]

Newsweek

President Donald Trump's favorable rating among Generation Z voters has dramatically fallen since the 2024 election, according to a poll.

A survey from The Economist/YouGov released Wednesday revealed the president's net favorability rating among those aged 18-29 is minus 18 points. This is a drop from the plus 19 favorable rating he scored among this demographic in the days following November's race.

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The latest Economist/YouGov poll showed that a majority of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Trump (52 percent), while 46 percent hold a positive view of him, giving the president a net favorable score of minus 6.

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When broken down further to 315 respondents aged 18-29, the poll finds that Trump has a 39 percent favorable rating, compared to 57 percent who said they have an unfavorable view of the Republican president.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gen-z-popularity-favorable-rating-yougov-2030595

The Gen Z members in the poll said they were turned off by mass deportations, targeting of DEI programs, and comments that the US would move Palestinians out of Gaza and take it over.

[Irish_Dem]

1. But they voted for all of this. Trump did not hide any of it.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Wilful ignorance

and brainwashing by right-wing podcasts

[Irish_Dem]

5. Humans always have to learn things the hard way.

[DSandra]

17. Humans are cursed

The fact that our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom are violent chimps speaks volumes.

[DSandra]

16. Yep, including Joe Rogan

Never thought the host of Fear Factor would end up helping to destroy America.

[Initech]

23. And they probably also learned this shit from their Fox News watching parents.

[Mariana]

10. Most of Gen Z voters cast their ballots for Harris.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes but this OP is about Gen Z Trump voters.

[XanaDUer2]

2. Ok

[mcar]

4. Maybe they should have voted for the woman

[Mariana]

11. Most of them did.

Only 43% of 18-29 year olds voted for Trump, less than any other age group.

[mcar]

22. That's 43% too many

and yes, I am aware of how many white men and women voted for Agent Orange.

[Ocelot II]

6. He's doing what he said he'd do, and we tried to warn them.

The leopards are gonna eat your faces, we said. What leopards? they said.

[dweller]

7. Maybe that popularity

Didn’t really exists .
It was a poll result … Pisswig buys poll results
🫤




✌🏻

[newdeal2]

8. wtf did they think they were voting for?

If some of them had done even a tiny bit of research, we could have avoided this mess entirely.

[Drum]

12. Couldn't survive without TikTok, I guess...

[republianmushroom]

9. Live and learn

[durablend]

13. I'm sure he cares very deeply about this /s

[FakeNoose]

14. We have to remember that Gen-Z kids get their "news" from TikTok and Instagram

Most never take their heads out of their phones long enough to see what's going on.

[Wicked Blue]

15. And podcasts

My adult daughter tells me there are horrifying podcasts out there

[2naSalit]

19. As they should be.

[Jspur]

20. As an elder Millennial my empathy for them

has gone out of the window. At first, I felt bad for Gen Z having to go through what they did with COVID and inflation and cost of living issues. What they are going through reminds me of how Millennials suffered with 9/11, financial crisis, etc. I looked at them as that younger sibling you feel bad for since they are also dealing with the same abusive parent that you dealt with.

Gen Z instead of using their suffering to force positive change they used it to force destructive change when it came to embracing racism and Trump. This generation is even more racist than the Millennial generation. That's the thing that really surprises me about them. They really debunked my belief that as each generation that comes after becomes less racist than the previous generation.