About 4-in-10 Americans say Trump is a ‘terrible’ president amid sinking approval: Survey

6 out of ten said what? This is fine..?

It’s a bullshit poll. 10% selected “I don’t know.”
The AP-NORC poll surveyed 1,260 adults from April 17- April 21, using a probability-based method from AmeriSpeak. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
He’s underwater at 54.6% unfavorable on YouGov as of five days ago.
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/donald-trump-favorability
He’s 59% unfavorable on Pew Research Center as of three days ago.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/04/23/evaluations-of-trump-job-approval-and-confidence-on-issues/
- I mean, these numbers are still crazy low relatively speaking.
- The 52% AP-NORC result has a margin of error of 3.9%. That puts the 54.6% YouGov poll squarely within it. Pew Research was April 7-14 and doesn't have a margin on its first page, so I didn't look further.
  Not sure why you don't think the YouGov poll is also bullshit since it is lower than Pew.
It’s because we’re literally surrounded by nazis
I misread it as 4/10 say he's good, and still thought WTF?!
Could be 6 out of 10 said he should be put into the ground, it could also be 6 or if 10 said he should be the next pope.

Only 4-in-10? That's disappointing

It's why the US will fail, quickly.
It’s more than the people who voted for him…
- If you force no to low info non-voters to vote it doesn't fix their ignorance. You just get Australian elections.

How THE FUCK is it only 4 in 10?! Have they been bound, gagged, and held away from any goddamn newssource? This incontinent incompetent asshole is qualified to sit in a fucking jail cell, that's it. God this country is stupid...

How THE FUCK is it only 4 in 10?! Have they been bound, gagged, and held away from any goddamn newssource?
No, but there are millions who basically do not consume news outside of social media. And as you see on social media, people constantly complain about having to see "politics" and many try to block anything regarding that.
- Hell it happens here on Lemmy. And tbh I've thought about doing it too, shit's way too depressing right now.
- I was venting... I work with people who complain that they were inconvenienced by protesters but also wont listen to why they were protesting... I feel tired and old.
Alternate title - 6 in 10 Americans don't think Trump is a terrible president.
- Is this supposed to be better?
Like it or not (I don't) the horrific immigration policies get a lot of support. Other countries are taking notice too.
Germany is considering removing German citizenship to dual passport holders if they are deemed "extremists" (but with no clear definition of what that means and how it would be determined).
Since before Trump 2, Italy has already had its own camp in Albania for immigrants and it's share of friction with judges who said these deportations were illegal.
Also "let Russia have Ukraine, why do we care" has enjoyed the sort of support people are ashamed to admit but that translates to votes to all the worst politicians.
- the horrific immigration policies get a lot of support.
  Which just demonstrates the stupidity in this country. If this shit was happening while a Democrat president was in office, they'd be on the White House lawn with guns and nooses. The same exact people.

“He’s really doing the stuff that he said he was going to do,” Tanner Bergstrom, a 29 year old Republican from Minnesota, told the Associated Press. He added that Trump is “not making a bunch of promises and getting into office and nothing happens. … I really like that. Even if it’s some stuff I don’t agree with, it’s still doing what he said he was going to do.”

He’s a Nazi, but at least he’s an honest Nazi.

Honestly, as a sane person yes I do like honest Nazis more than lying Nazis. But do you know what I like more than honest Nazis? People who aren't a Nazi, I like those way the fuck more than honest Nazis which apparently puts us in the minority in this shit hole of a county
- Fully agree, in this unwinnable situation I would want the honest fascist.
  I think about Trump the way Steve Carell’s character thinks about Ryan Gosling’s character in The Big Short
  “He’s so transparent in his self-interest that I almost respect him”
I did Nazi that coming.
He's only doing the actions he promised, but not achieving the outcomes he promised; actions are easy, outcomes are hard. He said he'd tariff everyone and he did, but he also said the cost of living would go down and it actually went up. He said he'd mass deport immigrants and he did, but he also said dependence on social programs would decrease and it actually increased.
Trump/Republicans deliver on actions, Democrats deliver on outcomes. Because the outcomes depend on reality, the actions promised by Democrats are a lot less sexy and exciting.
I agree with your take, but I'd like to add some context to it.
Dems constantly go on about the things they want to fix. Public Healthcare. Free College. Money out of politics. Clean air. Clean Water. Etc. But for all the promises they make, we got a Republican healthcare plan that didn't even include a Public Option, college is more expensive than ever, money is rampant in politics, and all of this with a dose of increased cost of living from housing through food.
I can see grousing that "Yeah, I don't like what the Shitgibbon is doing, but at least he's doing what he promised to do!" I think Dems need to take notice here, but the question is: What will they do when the moneyed class starts yanking their chains? Because I am sure the moneyed class is perfectly happy with a fascist takeover of the USA.
- It's really easy to make changes if you don't care about whether those changes are positive or legal; you can tariff every other country and deport everyone who looks ethnic, but that isn't actually benefiting the US. Democrats don't make those kinds of promises because their goal is to improve the US. So... Yeah, Democrats could do the kinds of stuff Trump is doing, but most Liberals wouldn't want that.
- I think Dems need to take notice here,
  Just ignore the constituition and the rule of law and get shit done ?

4 in 10? Are these polls conducted in Mobile, Alabama?

They're conducted by calling people who answer the phone when an unknown number calls. So boomers.
- Actually, people who answer the phone, hear a machine say it wants you to take a survey, and bother answering it..... Dems some ooooooold people

So 60% of Americans are pieces of shit. That tracks.

4 in 10 Americans have an IQ above 12.

Better article

Political tribalism is so crazy in this country. It's like Republicans and Democrats live in two different countries. I suppose in some ways they do.
- The divide is actually between "people who got an education that included critical thinking skills" and people who didn't.
  Ideologically speaking, dozens of studies and surveys have shown that Americans are actually not very ideologically separate - it's just that the group that can't critically think is routinely and easily manipulated into voting AGAINST their own ideology through fear.
- We do, one side believes in freedom, equality, empathy and truth. The other side are shit flinging monkeys at this point.
  What's sad is like half of the country is basically still asleep at the wheel and just voting for whatever party they've been voting for and are more informed about celebrities than the constitutional crisis occurring.
The question cropped out of the image above:
Question: So far, in his second term, do you think Donald Trump has been a great, good, average, poor, or terrible president?
Source: AP-NORC poll conducted April 17-21, 2025, with 1,260 adults age 18 and older nationwide.
From the bottom of the survey: The nationwide poll was conducted April 17-21, 2025 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 1,260 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.9 percentage points.
These posts are always a great illustration of why you simply cannot trust or pay any attention to polls.
#1 biggest issue here --> there are 0 Democrats who think Trump is a "Great" president. To believe something like this is an admission of stupidity and ignorance so profound as to be dangerous. There are people who TELL THE POLLSTERS THEY ARE DEMOCRATS but in actuality have likely never voted Democrat in their life. So when folks are going "Where are these Democrats that think he's doing great??" the answer is "they are nowhere because they aren't real."
This is easily verifiable by simply going online to Democratic spaces and looking with your own eyes. Go to Democratic rallies and look. Listen to Democratic influencers and find A SINGLE FUCKING ONE who has anything even REMOTELY POSITIVE to say.
You won't find one. Because there aren't any.
Now there may be some Democrats who, like another commenter mentioned, are so completely oblivious to the news that they may ACTUALLY think Trump has been "good", especially if they 1.) live in a white enclave, 2.) don't have any money tied up in stocks, and 3.) harbor anti-immigrant feelings (which is much more common than folks realizee). If you're living a life of total privilege AND are surrounded by the kind of "polite conservatives" most millionaires are, you'd think everything is great because EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS DOING FINE, IS HAPPY, AND IS THRIVING.
but GREAT? LOL you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid and live under a rock to think anyone who is a registered Democrat thinks Trump is "Great".
These polls - just like the ones people are pointing to as a way of dismissing the obvious election theft that just happened - are created by the Right-wing media apparatus as a way of pacifying people. My own father is a MAJOR, BIG DEAL elections guy and staunchly anti-Trump, but he waves away any and all conversation about 2024 being stolen because "the results were in the margin of the polls".
Polls are used as a means of pacification and must be ignored. If polls were accurate, they would have showed Trump losing across the board, since we know there were enough *purged Democratic ballots to give Kamala a 1.5% victory and flip at least 4 states to her. If polls were accurate, THOSE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE SHOWN UP IN THE POLLING THAT WAS BEING DONE BEFORE THEY GOT PURGED.
The fact NOBODY mentions that little fact is why we know that polls as they are used today are total bullshit, red-herrings meant to keep us from asking questions.
- Everyone who has ever analyzed anything statistical on the population level knows that everything you just wrote is bullshit.
  I'd be wary of a statistic where absolutely no Democrat likes Trump. Some people are just stupid or have extremely weird ideas so even completely bonkers stuff is believed by some.
  Go to Democratic rallies and look
  That's the biggest fallacy right here. Most democratic leaning voters never go to any rally. In general, many voters never discuss politics. You're in a bubble.

Calling hIm "terrible," undersells it. He is, by all objective measure, the most prolific traitor in American history, literally worse than all other American traitors COMBINED.

He was already firmly established by historians as the worst president in American history following his first term, despite historians usually wishing to wait a decade before making their assessment. He was such a terrible president in his first term, that they didnt have to wait for his legacy to settle. Now he is only digging the hole of his legacy even deeper.

The world is full of dumb people shocker

44% is not sinking. What has that number moved, 1.3%?

How is it only 4 in 10?
Oh wait, maybe the other options were Horrible and stinking, which both received 3 votes.

So what I'm hearing is democrats think he's trash, MAGAts still love his soggy ass, and the twats who didn't bother to vote are not bothering with this poll

(Also fuck those guys the most. This is as much your fault as the MAGAts)

What the fuck is wrong with the other six?

Lots of things!

Hands down, the worst president, twice.

He's getting a masterclass in negotiation from Xi and I'm here for it.

6 in ten Americans are complete imbeciles I guess

Was this written by AI?

Forty-two percent of Independents say Trump has the wrong priorities, 30 percent say an even mix, 9 percent believe he has the wrong priorities and 19 percent don’t know.

Because of math?
- Read only what’s in bold for a fun surprise.

Hold on, they're still asking the other 6. The last one is a dentist.

And the other six? racist illiterate scumbags.

Could be a sampling bias. If you take 100 people at random from each state, the results would favor Trump. But 100 people is a larger percentage of red states than it is of blue states.
If you reword it as "4 out of 10 square miles think Trump is a bad president", it makes more sense, if you compare it to a political alignment map.
- No polling institute would make such stupid mistakes

6 in 10 Americans are terrible.

So 44% think he's doing terribly, 21% are an even mix, 10% don't know. That's 75%. One can only assume that the remaining 25% think he's doing a great job. I also imagine that there is an element of the shy conservative in these responses so the actual figure is probably like 30-40% think he's doing pretty good.

It's always ~30-40%. Those are the "deplorables" that Hillary famously talked about.
People who revel in the cruelty above all else.

These are the 4 in 10 who didn't vote then.

So looking over these numbers I have many questions, and I wish they had a breakdown of what people sell reported as instead of just the overall number of people surveyed, because I think was a good number of people trying to skew things (I hope at least - or else I really don't understand).

Like comparing the 2 charts below for example:

11% of Dems found Trump favorable
9% of Dems found JD favorable (ouch for JD "couch fucker" Vance being 2 points behind a guy that is a convicted rapist and felon, and currently running the country into the ground)
17% of Dems found RFK Jr. favorable (the guy pushing for sick kids and hurting anyone requiring anything in the proximity of mental health)

So overall in the 1st chart 18% think Trump is doing great, but then somehow 39% have a favorable opinion of him?
And overall in the 1st chart 39% think Trump is doing a horrible job, but 57% have an unfavorable opinion of him overall.

So despite 39% of those surveyed thinking Trump is great, only 18% of them think he is doing great. While 57% of people surveyed think unfavorable of Trump, while only 39% think he is doing a horrible job.

Yeah it's The Hill. They launder conservative talking points to neoliberals and centrists in order to obfuscate real information. Nothing they report is trustworthy.

Yeah.... That's why he is president?

Electoral collage. It masks unpopularity.
- As much as i hate it trump not onky won the electoral college but the popular vote this go around.

Skeletor is an inconsiderate and mean employer.

Terrible is inadequate. Death penalty warranted traitor is closer to accurate.

At least 4 are nazis

Amazing that so many don’t think that. The media must be working overtime to hide such a mess from so many.

Not really. This work has been done over decades. Most Americans get their news from Fox or Facebook, both of which are intentionally misinforming people on a daily basis.

Oh no! A new poll! Polls are very truthy. /s

Bunk survey.