Donald Trump's Approval Rating Falls to Lowest Point With Richest Americans Sep 06, 2025 at 5:00 AM

[riversedge]

ummm If the Presidential election was held tomorrow, there would probably be enough votes to get him into the Oval Office for a 3rd term!! IMHO




Donald Trump's Approval Rating Falls to Lowest Point With Richest Americans
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-rich-americans-2124431

Published Sep 06, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT

President Donald Trump's approval rating among the richest Americans has fallen to its lowest point of his second term.

According to polling by The Economist/YouGov, Trump's net approval rating among Americans with a yearly income of more than $100,000 was at -16 percentage points, down from -10 recorded in July. The previous nadir of -14 had been measured in April following the announcement of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.


Why It Matters

Trump came into office with a strong net approval rating among this demographic— at + 6 with 49 percent approving of his job performance and 43 percent disapproving. Some high-profile billionaires like hedge fund managers Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb have since spoken out against Trump because of his tariffs policy.

If Trump loses the support of this demographic, it might affect the GOP's chances of electoral success in the November 2026 midterm elections............................







Donald Trump's approval rating falls to lowest point
The president has recently received other negative polling more broadly. In August, a Quinnipiac poll revealed that the president has a 37 percent approval rating versus a 55 percent disapproval rating

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[GreenWave]

1. There are NOT enough votes to install him as dictator.

[CrispyQ]

2. That 37% approval rating is steady & has been for a long, long time.

This commentary was written in 2018 when the US was starting to separate families at the southern border. At one point O'Toole writes, "Forget “post-fascist” – what we are living with is pre-fascism." And here we are, seven years later, well into it.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375

Fintan O’Toole
Tue Jun 26 2018

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Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

One of the basic tools of fascism is the rigging of elections – we’ve seen that trialled in the election of Trump, in the Brexit referendum and (less successfully) in the French presidential elections. Another is the generation of tribal identities, the division of society into mutually exclusive polarities. Fascism does not need a majority – it typically comes to power with about 40 per cent support and then uses control and intimidation to consolidate that power. So it doesn’t matter if most people hate you, as long as your 40 per cent is fanatically committed. That’s been tested out too. And fascism of course needs a propaganda machine so effective that it creates for its followers a universe of “alternative facts” impervious to unwanted realities. Again, the testing for this is very far advanced.

But when you’ve done all this, there is a crucial next step, usually the trickiest of all. You have to undermine moral boundaries, inure people to the acceptance of acts of extreme cruelty. Like hounds, people have to be blooded. They have to be given the taste for savagery. Fascism does this by building up the sense of threat from a despised out-group. This allows the members of that group to be dehumanised. Once that has been achieved, you can gradually up the ante, working through the stages from breaking windows to extermination.

Immigrants & trans are who they started with but the rest of us are on the list, too.

[peggysue2]

3. Yes. I've said before those . . .

Detention camps assembled and planned for the future are not just for immigrants. Sooner rather than later, Agent Orange and his ICE goons will come for us all on any pretext.

Never forget, never forgive.