A new Marquette Law School national survey published this week finds that, at 34 percent approve to 66 percent disapprove, convicted felon President Trump’s job approval on “Inflation/cost of living” is 32 percent in the red, the worst rating on any single issue in the poll, but far from the only negative one. In fact out of seven different issues handling plus overall job rating, just one was positive: 56 to 44 percent approve vs disapprove on “Border Security,” and one 0 percent net at 50/50 on immigration policy. Overall job approval was negative 8 percent at 46 approve to 54 percent disapprove (still too goddamned high), while on foreign policy, the economy, Russia-Ukraine war, and tariffs, the fat fuck was 14, 16, 20, and 26 percent underwater on each, respectively.
Broken down by respondents’ party affiliation, inflation is also Trump’s weakest issue among Republicans at just net 36 percent. Compare that to net 84 percent Republican approval on the border and net 74 percent overall job approval for their felon-in-chief. Republicans and indies rated inflation/costs as by far their most important single issue at 42 and 35 percent respectively, among Dems prices was a close second – 30 percent – to threats to democracy on top at 37 percent.
The most comprehensive table in the poll write-up is the breakdown of the shifts in perceptions of tariffs’ effects on prices since early December and it’s pretty revealing about how fucking stupid MAGA voters were and how much unwelcome education they’ve gotten on the matter since.
Might as well just take a screengrab instead of trying to describe it:
What’s funny is how static the “Have no effect on inflation” is among the Republican respondents, even as the number of them who understand that their messiah is fucking them over and imposing higher costs after voters elected him precisely because of that specific issue nearly tripled and while among the low-info indies “Have no effect on inflation” halved and then some with the Dems.
The bottom line is that at this point, Trump’s overall approval is still more than the sum of its parts. Nobody except for the most addled of his shithead voters (which is still a significant fraction of the electorate) is going to say “Well Christmas 2025 was 30 percent more expensive than Christmas 2024, but at least all those Mexicans got deported back home to Venezuela.” Few of those dipshit swing voters who got suckered into keeping the fat fuck out of prison with lofty promises of lower prices are going to admit to themselves, much less a pollster, that they were wrong this early on, hence the job approval at 46 percent. The movement on the issues themselves, especially the economic ones that were supposed to be Trump’s strongest, is where they’re expressing this. Hard to argue how that’ll somehow actually be a good thing for the GOP next year.