***Breaking*** TACO's Approval Falls To 37% in Quinnipiac Poll

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Thirty-seven percent of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 55 percent disapprove. In Quinnipiac University's July 16 poll, 40 percent of voters approved and 54 percent disapproved.

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3929

Why is it important? It's important because other dictators like Duterte, Bukele, and Putin are/were popular, and it has ramifications for the midterms and the 2028 election.

[senseandsensibility]

1. He is not popular

That is the reality. The corporate media presents a skewed reality. So I appreciate learning about these historically low poll ratings. Ultimately, they do and will affect his ability to hold onto power.

[RockRaven]

2. A low approval rating isn't going to stop him from doing anything.

He doesn't need or care about public opinion. His whole project -- his party's whole project -- is to act without regard to what the public wants.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

12. They are on a race to destroy usa b4 midterms

[Escurumbele]

25. And cheating in the next elections...Democrats need to wake up hard...I know it has been said over and over but,

we must continue to pound it. I believe Newsom is doing the right thing, I may not be a fan of one of his lengthy videos someone put out there, too much violence for me, but he is doing the right thing...get in his head, that is one of the ways to do it, but the rest of the Democrats must show their courage as well.

[MadameButterfly]

38. How do we know who is popular in a dictataorship?

Trump is already saying the opposite of what's true about everything and a lot of people still believe it. The more he controls the media, the more that's all anybody will here.

How do we know Putin etc. are popular? Where are legitimate polls in a country that has fake elections? What percentage of people dare to speak out? Are they polling the people in prison for opposing them?

I have to hope we are too educated and experienced with democracy for him to win, but I have trouble imagining the soldiers who'll have to turn things around and how bad it will have to get for them to take the risk.

[ReRe]

47. Yeah, he's not bothered with the low polls too much.

That's why he has those nice cozy Cabinet meetings where everyone goes around the table telling him how wonderful he is (this is called narcissistic supply). However, I do think low polls bring out his vengefulness. I don't care, though. I want his polling to be near zero by the October of 2026. And if Couch Guy is President by then, then I hope his polling is near zero.
Nothing will stop me & my two bodyguards (sons) from casting our votes. Nothing.
We vote as a block. A democratic block.

[MrWowWow]

3. Irrelevant to a DICKtator

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Stalin, Hitler and Mao cared not a wit if they were the People's flavor of the month..

While each of these dictators wanted to appear beloved and may have monitored public mood through propaganda channels and reports, none of them cared about their polling numbers. What mattered was maintaining absolute control, suppressing dissent, and projecting an image of unanimous support.

As for the 2026 Midterms, even if they're held, they'll be rigged.

[gab13by13]

4. Rachel and Nicolle are always talking about polls,

Do polls matter to dictators? Unless there's a revolution, polls don't mean squat to dictators.

[Hornedfrog2000]

13. His polls will go up when they get total control

They have to appear infalible, so his approval will soon be 95% and nobody will question what he does. The media will regurgitate how popular he is, and how great he is, etc.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. TACO aside

how are taco trucks doing? There was one outside Lowes but haven't been there in months.

[Torchlight]

6. His numbers keep going lower.

All things being equal, there's really no real way to spin that except as a slow-burning failure.

[awesomerwb1]

7. 37% is still way too high

Not that it means anything to him at this point

[hamsterjill]

11. Agreed.

I can’t believe it’s actually over 10%.

Stupid orange asshole!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. Approximately 30% of Americans are Republicans.

[hamsterjill]

17. Yes, but there are at least a few who are sane and didn't vote for him

My post was really tongue in cheek. To me, his endgame is to be a dictator and anyone who cannot readily see that is just an idiot.

So if his approval rating is indeed 37%, then we have a helluva lot of idiots…which we do!!!

[PatSeg]

15. Yep, that's my reaction as well

I am trying to imagine who these 37 our 100 people are. His poll numbers should be much, much lower.

[ProfessorGAC]

27. If It's Any Consolation...

...he got 49.5% of the vote, so he's lost a quarter of those who thought voting for him was a good idea.
Also, low popularity is indicative of an electoral backlash in the midterms & people who are mad tend to vote.

[BannonsLiver]

30. Agree. His numbers are right where you thought they would be in an exchange we had a while back.

Assuming I’m not conflating that with someone else. But I’m pretty sure we agreed it would be in the 30s by the end of summer.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. That Sure Sounds Familiar

Your recall is probably correct.

[MadameButterfly]

41. Only 55% disaproval

That's crazy. That means 18% on the fence.
And if there is an election, you have to count on a some percentage of voter suppression, and hope there's no shenanigans in the vote count. He's already going after voter roles, has all our SS information, has gotten rid of the agencies that protect voting security and monitor Russian interference....
I'm looking for 10% approval to have hopes of overcoming all of that.
Something difinitive from the Epstein files, or Smith's as yet undisclosed evidence from the documents trial....Something really big needs to happen.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Only 8 %

55 + 37 = 92, not 82%.
Still ridiculous, but not as ridiculous.

[MadameButterfly]

54. Yeah, that's better

Thanks. You have to figure 8% are checked out

[Martin Eden]

52. That was my first thought.

But Trump in the Oval Office was unthinkable in the first place.

[Wicked Blue]

8. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but almost all the polls I've seen in recent months

show his popularity falling to 38% or 37%. It seems to me like the poll numbers haven't fallen much if they've remained pretty much the same.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. The variance is actually larger than that.

[karynnj]

14. However there is a very strong trend since January

Even going to the right wing real clear politics, if you spool down to get the graphs over time of their average approval and disapproval, the trends are both consistent and steep.

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

[Wiz Imp]

22. The best polls (Quinnipiac, Pew, Gallup, Ipsos, American Research Group) have all hovered between 37% & 40%

for a month or two. Most other polls have consistently been in the low 40's except for the clearly biased right wing polls which are consistent outliers (RMG, Rasmussen, Trafalgar, Insider Advantage). Note the average includes those biased polls - in the past 2 months that includes 4 polls from RMG Research and 1 from Insider Advantage/Trafalgar right at 50% and a joke of an Insider Advantage poll which showed Trump at 54% (note Insider Advantage/Trafalgar have consistently shown Trump approval ratings 10 to 15% higher than any other pollster other than RMG (Rasmussen)

[bearsfootball516]

28. Well, his base is probably around 31-32 percent.

The only way he falls to that is if the bottom completely falls out of the economy. That being said, 37 percent is still awful. That means all Democrats, and probably about 70 percent of independents, are disapproving.

[BaronChocula]

35. You aren't wrong

It's just that he's dropped 3 points in a month in the Qinnipiac poll. It confirms the trend of his approval circling the drain.

[BoRaGard]

45. His pedo "bestie" credentials ain't exactly attractive

even the repubes who claim to be Christian must see this...

[BaronChocula]

51. You would think that

Even when those nasty magas (Christian conservative or not) are irked by things he does like refusing to release the Epstein Files, they still back him as the polls indicate. Full on cult.

[MiHale]

10. Everyone could hate him in polling...

He’s still gonna be a cockroach and live through low polls. Polls won’t oust him.

[calimary]

18. Still that high?

[Wiz Imp]

19. In the average of all polls from "Strength In Numbers", Trump is now at a net -11.8%.

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=false#%C2%A7how-popular-is-donald-trump

Very close to the worst point yet and continuing on a downward trajectory.

[Blue Owl]

20. How the fuck is it not below 20% or even 10%??? He's a CON MAN for fuck's sake!

[Wiz Imp]

23. A large portion of the US population is brainwashed. Seriously.

This large segment of population no longer believe in objective reality. They believe whatever Trump tells them, no matter how insanely wrong or false those statements may be.

[Hornedfrog2000]

39. This is completely accurate.

Especially when you have like 3 media outlets, and all of social media echoing what he says.

Think about this, the only reason the media started talking about epstein again, was rupert murdoch/musk threw a tantrum and shot across trump's bow, and he got the message loud and clear. It crippled him for a month. Yeah hes still suing rupert, but they will kiss and makeup. Nothing a few billion cant take care of, one direction or the other.

That should tell you everything you need to know.

[Wednesdays]

42. Two words: Fox News. nt

[Iris]

37. I'm guessing for conning to be a living, 30% of people you meet would need to be dupes

[kimbutgar]

21. I would be this numbers are even lower

The poll analysts call more repukes than Democrats.

And by Christmas when he completes his takeover of our country destroying the legislative and the judicial branches his the poll numbers will go up to the highest ever for a President in our country’s history

[FakeNoose]

26. It used to be they only called people with landlines, not cellphones

That's why the polls kept on skewing for R candidates and conservative positions on the issues.

But in the last maybe 10 years (or so) they've called cellphone numbers and gotten a greater percentage of younger people to answer. It's still a conservative skew, if you ask me. Just not as bad as before.

[MadameButterfly]

44. Well, I haven't seen a lot of surprise Democratic victories

as a result of that skew

[Escurumbele]

24. It is still way too high, what is wrong with people? I will say it again, IGNORANCE is very dangerous.

Well, ignorance, misogyny, racism, hate, greed, etc., etc., etc.

[watertiger]

29. Why does his pole numbers matter?

Once you vote for a dictator, you don’t get to just un vote for one

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. Jair Bolsinaro, Rodrigo Duterte, and Ferdinand Marcos say hi.

[gerryatwork]

31. Two takeaways...

The poll is 6 weeks old. Probably somewhat accurate although I’d gather his his approval is a point or two less. And most importantly there will either not be 2026 elections. Or if they are held, will be rigged to a Russia level.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. This RDD telephone survey was conducted from August 21 - 25, 2025 throughout the contiguous United States.

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3929

[Doodley]

36. There will be 33 senate elections and 435 house elections. Republicans can't rig every election across the country.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

43. Thank you, Doodley.

You're an antidote to the defeatism.

[MadameButterfly]

46. I wish I thought that was true

I'm not suggesting giving up, but we need to get very serious about protecting our elections
and fight to be a democracy in two years

[Doodley]

33. When tariffs fully raise prices and when millions lose health care in January, Trump will dream of polls this good!

[rickford66]

48. Every time his approval goes down, it's always 37%

Why not say steady at 37% ?

[Johonny]

49. Recent polling shows Trump can only fool the base

And everyone else isn't interested in his agenda. I mean, essentially his whole agenda is unpopular.

But Republicans publicly still love him. I assume they will love him no matter what. It is a cult.

[UTUSN]

53. K&R