Study released a day before State of the Union address shows president has lost support among Republicans

Most US adults think Donald Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction during his second presidency, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released the day before his State of the Union speech.

Fifty-five percent of adults feel that Trump is changing the country for the worse, a 13-point increase from around the same time of his first presidency, the survey conducted from 27 to 30 January found.

The number of people who held that view also increased four points from April.

Unsurprisingly, support for the president splits down party lines.

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[–] 94 points 8 months ago (19 children)

For the dumb dumbs that voted for him but now think he's moving in the wrong direction, just what they fuck did they think he was going to do?

He ran on carrying out vendettas against his personal enemies and doing incredibly stupid shit like culture wars, tariffs, and mass deportation.

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  • [–] 53 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Usual thing with these people: "I didn't think he would hurt me"

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    No, I assure you, I am a loser... But I never supported Trump in anything, and certainly not as a politician.

    I would support however his effort to furtilize a random field in Montana with his corpse. But nothing else really.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Not all losers support Trump for all Trump supporters are losers.

    Your inability to figure out this simple logic mapping indicates your self-assessment is otherwise correct.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    hey easy clent some of us were edumacated in statesia here

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Looks like people took my comment too serious; looks like you've uncovered the reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Looks like peole

    i am glad you are taking it with good humor

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    they think he was going to do?

    This. but not to THEM.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I remember talking to a relative of mine (he's a redcap) and we were talking about the economy a few months into 2025.

    He said something about how Pedonald was "fixing" the supposedly terrible Biden economy. I asked him what was so bad during the Biden economy....both he and I had steady jobs. He said something phrased in a kind of passive-aggressive way about how maybe the "wrong" people were doing well - implication being ME and other people present that were not redcaps were not doing poorly and that was a problem. I pointed out that I worked a steady job through his first term, too.

    And I could tell that reminding him of this annoyed him. I think he expressed some kind of wish that maybe this term Pedonald would do better at harming people like me, at least economically if not something more directly nefarious. We were interrupted by other people (lots of people at this gathering) before I could ask more questions.

    These people are truly warped. Sure, in my weaker moments, I express vitriol towards the redcaps and don't always say the nicest things about them. But I really don't want them and their spouses and their children to go without healthcare, shelter, food, a job with dignity, clean air and clean water, etc...I've seen lots of the redcaps really champion death and so on online, and definitely I've seen them talk about it abstractly IRL, too.

    But to have a relative stand there and tell you that they want harm done to you and your family is another matter altogether.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    When you think about it that way it’s no surprise they worship the Orange Pedo as the Second Coming of Christ. You’ve been Living A Wicked Life and have Gone Down The Path Of Sin, and so you deserve to be smited by the divine! But the divine never answered his prayers; you and all those other icky upstart ‘sinful people’ kept having a nice job and everything that he felt should be taken from you.

    And then Trump comes along and grants his prayers with deportations and shootings and everything else he thinks you deserve. Is it any wonder he’s willing to suffer himself, as long as you ‘get what’s coming to you’?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I think the biggest thing that was so wild to learn about this relative was when they expressed that my wife and I going to college has basically tainted us. It is their belief that going to a university basically ruins anyone that attends. That's some real tell me you know nothing about higher education without telling me...

    So, in this case, the major problem with me (and my wife) is getting a higher education and not supporting the GOP. That's about the extent of what they know about our politics, really. It's not like we sit around reeling off readings of Karl Marx at gatherings like this.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well you said it. They are dumb dumbs. And dumb dumbs believe the first thing they are told, any information that they are given after that is "fake news".

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They'll still vote for Republicans though, because it's a part of their identity, and it's in their nature to be hateful and ignorant

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    It seems there may be cause for hope that Trump is fucking up so bad he is losing the moderate Republican vote.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    While these numbers look good, I wouldn't hold my hopes high. Moderate republicans might be changing opinion but if they don't swing enough to vote a dem, it won't change anything.

    And this is only if the elections happen and are fair, two things that right now are not granted.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    They don't need to vote dem, they just need to lose motivation to vote (either not vote at all, or vote for anyone non-GOP). The GOP cannot afford to lose many votes, so long as the elections are fair, as you say. The elections will happen in some shape or form (remember, even Russia has """elections"""). The GOP has seats up for election and upcoming vacancies.

    It's just a matter of how fair they'll be.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Sure wish y’all could have seen this like idk, 3-10 years ago!

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    And they're voting Republican again anyway!

    Here in California, the top two candidates for governor going into the primary, are varying degrees of MAGA. Fucking insane.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Pretty much everybody I know on the right (and conservative) fall into 2 camps:

    "There's only 2 pronouns, male and female" or "I don't keep up with the news these days".

    When that's what progress is going up against, and it's nearly 50% (or more) of the population, I just don't know how we can continue as a country.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I'd like to hear from the minority who belive "6 feet under" is the right direction to be moving.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The only thing that gives me hope we can at least semi fix the direction things are going is that at least for Hitler, most of the population fervently approved of Hitler.

    That's not the case here.

    But that could just slow things down.

    All bets are off at this point.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    How do you know most of the population fervently approved of Hitler?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Well, it's kinda impossible to know for sure, as anyone not targeted by the Hitler regime as enemies was still discouraged from publicly, or even privately, disagreeing with the party.

    But there was likely some poll or support data available to scholars at different points that would give an idea of actual support at those points.

    I don't have those details, and am not who you were asking, but I did hear support dwindled as the US entered the war. And, logically, it was probably higher when he was elected then when the war started getting real nasty.

    Most people start not liking their leadership when their leaders actions cause them personal distress.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    I've heard 60% approved of him taking power. It was from a documentary you tube video.

    I guess I'm not 100% sure where they got the number from.

    Pretty sure it was an infographic video.

    Maybe this one. It's been a few months since I watched it.

    https://youtu.be/gPB6_gXEoFc

    Hitler had the Hitler youth who were pretty intense. And plus a lot of citizens got the stuff he stole from their Jewish neighbors. Or at least sold to them at a discount.

    The people were mostly fine with these spoils.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Surely the shocking news here is that 45% of voters don't believe he is moving the USA in the wrong direction?!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    He didn’t win Elon and Thiel rigged the election they found evidence in Georgia

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    its amazing what a president has to do to be on the outs with the republicans. demolishes white house and wipes ass with constitution. ah. well. maybe he is not leading us in the right direction. maybe.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What? Americans voted for him to move USA backwards, and he is moving USA backwards!
    They got what they asked for.

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    America is moving in a direction that will make them worse than nazi's in WW2, and it seems a good portion of Americans are completely cool with that 😒

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    A good portion of Americans, even many who despise Trump and MAGA, don't really believe that we would ever fall that far. They believe that somehow there will be a floor where they may not like the overall direction, but things will mostly be more or less okay.

    They don't understand that people like Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller, Bannon, Hegseth, Noem, Lewandowski, etc., and even Trump himself, are dreaming of a nation in which they can simply order the executions of anyone they want, for any reason at all. They are working hard every day to achieve that level of power, and we have to take their efforts extremely seriously. They HATE us, and they WILL kill millions of us, if they get the opportunity.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Electing a felon rapist pedophile who spends every day trying to divide our nation was a bad idea?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Too much belief not enough action

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I thought the Pedo-in-Chief demanded we stop polling him? Lol

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Well, maybe in the next term he will be better?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I believe Trump is moving the US in the right direction, whereas a good president would be moving the US in the left direction

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Duuurrrrrrrrrrrr

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    Yes, if only there was some way to have seen this coming!
    If the fat orange child rapist had 4 years of blatant corruption, easily prosecuted criminality, and glaring ineptitude just a few years prior then all this surely would never have happened...

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    i don't read polls often. this one was worth reading.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Gee……ya fuckin think?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Understatement of the century.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    This poll is the same as all the others.

    "Some Americans think Trump may possibly not be amazing"

    They do tell us that apparently most Americans are idiots but that's about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    In other news: water is wet!

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Would have been nice if they'd fucking voted, huh?

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