President Donald Trump says he’s not letting his approval ratings get to him. According to him, everything is fine. Or, as he put it on Truth Social Monday afternoon:
“So many Fake Polls are being shown by the Radical Left Media, all slanted heavily toward Democrats and Far Left Wingers. In the Fair Polls, and even the Reasonable Polls, I have the Best Numbers I have ever had and, why shouldn’t I? I ended eight Wars, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, kept Prices, Inflation, and Taxes down, and am setting standards for Right Track / Wrong Track for a future USA. Fake News will never change, they are evil and corrupt but, as I look around my beautiful surroundings, I say to myself, ‘Oh, look, I’m sitting in the Oval Office!’”
He’s right about one thing — he is sitting in the Oval Office. But the numbers tell a less comfortable story. According to a Reuters/Ipsos survey released last week, his approval has fallen to 40 %, the lowest point of his second term. The Guardian reported a similar figure, calling it a “second-term low.”
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Meanwhile, younger voters appear to be slipping away. A YouGov poll shows only 20 % of adults under 30 approve of his job performance. That’s less than half the support he had in early 2024.
After posting that message, Trump followed it up with a warning about New York City, saying federal funding could dry up if progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the upcoming mayoral race.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump wrote. “It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”
He even added that he’d “much rather see a Democrat … WIN, than a Communist with no experience.” That statement, rare for Trump, briefly confused both parties before they remembered this is a man who once endorsed “nobody” in his own state’s race.
As the sun set — a thing he could not control, though he once claimed he could “fix daylight saving time if Congress would just listen” — the president turned his attention to Virginia and New Jersey, warning voters that energy prices would “DOUBLE, TRIPLE, AND EVEN QUADRUPLE” if Democrats win.
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