A woman at the "Million MAGA March" in Washington D.C. on December 8, 2020 (Image: Shutterstock)
“Daily Blast” podcaster Sam Stein says President Donald Trump is “hitting some important milestones”—but all of them are bad.
“His approval rating has dropped below 40 percent in at least three different sets of polling averages. What’s more, another analysis shows Trump is more unpopular with independents than any president at this point in his second term, including Richard Nixon.”
“People are tired of this mad king act,” said DB podcast guest Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of Indivisible, the group that organized the “No Kings” protests in March. “… It is the sense that American society is struggling under the weight of AI, a weak jobs market, continued inflation, while Donald Trump focuses on his own glory, his own enrichment, his own power.”
In addition to economic issues and outright concern for democracy, Greenberg said Trump and his administration “made almost no public case for war” in Iran, which made the attack a hated “surprise to people.”
“It’s very obvious to people that if we are spending a billion dollars a day for a war and for bombs that are going to destroy Iranian schoolgirls’ schools while we are cutting healthcare and costs for schools at home, those two things are connected,” said Greenberg.
Stein pointed out that Trump is underwater with noncollege white men on Fox News polls, saying “You don’t get closer to the molten core of the MAGA base than that.”
“Critically, those demographics in the Fox poll also oppose the war. He’s losing his base over the war, isn’t he?” Stein asked.
“That’s absolutely the case,” replied Greenberg. “ … there was absolutely a base of folks who thought they were voting for the anti-war candidate in 2024 when they voted for Donald Trump. You are seeing a fracturing of that set of folks. They may not necessarily be the highest information voters, but a war is certainly capable of breaking through to them.”
While many MAGA are expressing disgust with Trump and walking away, others are deep into panic over the horrendous numbers.
“Nobody cares! Nobody cares! Nobody cares!” posted one Republican supporter on X beneath a Big Data Poll revealing Republicans to have hit their lowest approval among Independents since January 2022, with ≈16 percent of Independents saying they "Previously identified as America First/MAGA, but no longer do.”
“You people who do polling live by the minute and nobody lives that way and we don't care,” the commenter continued. “Tell me about a week from the election and then maybe I'll care in the meantime go away. We've got a war to fight and we don't need doomers and gloomers demoralizing people.”
Other MAGA lieutenants continue to march forward, denying the obvious.
“President Trump is doing what he said he would do: -Secure the border -Support law enforcement -Lower taxes for hardworking families -Enforce the law Promises made, promises kept,” insisted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on X.