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Washington Post
02-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Americans didn't vote for less stuff that costs more
President Donald Trump seems to be in denial about the unpopularity of his trade wars. On what he intended as a victory lap to coincide with the 100th day of his second term, he repeatedly attacked pollsters as 'crooked people' who put out 'fake polls.' At a rally in Michigan on Tuesday, Trump claimed his approval rating was 'in the 60s or 70s.' A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll puts it at 39 percent. This is the same share of American adults as approve of his handling of the economy. And nearly two-thirds, 64 percent, oppose Trump's tariffs on imported goods.
Miami Herald
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Immigration should be a winning issue for Trump, so why is he losing public support?
Immigration enforcement should have been a political slam dunk for President Donald Trump, but, as recent voter-approval polling indicates, more Americans believe he's fumbling the issue. That's despite Trump winning the 2024 elections at least in part because of his tough immigration stance and former President Joe Biden's mishandling of the border crisis. And border crossings are down under Trump. As the president marked his 100th day in office this week, several polls about his handling of top issues have been released. The numbers vary slightly from pollster to pollster but the overall picture is not good for the White House. Trump's overall approval rating is in under water and he's lost support — including among Hispanics, a crucial voting bloc — since taking office in January. Critics of the polls say they are skewed against Trump, but even if that's true, the trend isn't good. Trump also seems to be losing support for his handling of the economy, another issue on which he used to enjoy broad support. In a poll conducted by the conservative Fox News from April 18-21, for example, 56% disapproved his economic performance versus 38% who approved it. Immigration is still the issue where Trump has some of his strongest polling numbers, and some polls show he has approval from most Americans on the topic, but even those numbers are starting to spell trouble. In a CNN survey, support for his immigration approach fell 6 points from March, with 53% still expressing confidence in his ability to deal with it. A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found a little over half of those surveyed disapproved of his handling of the issue. Trump's diminishing support might not be because Americans don't want tougher immigration or border enforcement. The problem might to be with the chaotic and often cruel way Trump is dealing with migrants. Most Americans oppose how Trump is handling deportations, according to Fox News. A majority oppose the administration revoking visas from foreigners who protested the war in Gaza, according to an NBC News Stay Tuned poll. While most registered voters support deporting undocumented migrants, almost two-thirds oppose deporting them if they have lived in the U.S. for more than 10 years, paid taxes and had no criminal records, a Wall Street Journal survey found. The takeaway from all these numbers? It looks as though Trump has gone too far on immigration. The deportation of a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison, which the Trump administration has admitted was a mistake, and the lack of due process in the deportations of many others have marked Trump's first 100 days in office. While it's a no-brainer that people with proven ties to gangs should be deported, it's unknown whether hundreds of men sent to the Salvadoran prison actually belonged to Venezuela's Tren de Aragua, as federal officials say they do, or if they were targeted because of their tattoos. The men were not given a chance to challenge their deportations. Trump has evoked the 1798 wartime Alien Enemies Act, which gives the president sweeping authority to imprison and deport foreigners. Trump may still be able to justify those swift deportations to the public, but it's a lot harder to explain why he's trying to take legal status away from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who have Temporary Protected Status, given to them because their countries are in political and humanitarian turmoil. Or why he's deporting Cubans — such as the Tampa woman detained at her immigration appointment — back to a regime that the Trump administration itself has re-classified as a state sponsor of terrorism. Americans may back the deportation of criminals or faceless undocumented migrants. But when details of each case emerge, it's often harder to justify why some of them did not deserve a chance to make their case to stay in the U.S. That Cuban woman, Heidy Sánchez, had a stable job, no known criminal record, a husband who's a naturalized U.S. citizen and a 1-year-old daughter. She was trying to obtain her green card. Such stories shouldn't come as a surprise given Trump's comments during his 2024 campaign about immigrants 'poisoning the blood of our country.' But it appears that, if the polls are correct, his actions are president have gone too far. Click here to send the letter.
Calgary Herald
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Calgary Herald
Most take Trump's Canada, Greenland and third-term ideas seriously — and oppose them: poll
President Donald Trump has proposed taking over Canada and Greenland, imprisoning U.S. citizens overseas, and serving an unconstitutional third term. Article content Most Americans say they think he's serious about each proposal. And most, including many Republicans, oppose each one. Article content That's according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll that surveyed 2,464 Americans about his ideas, which are often light on details and sometimes sit on questionable legal ground. It can often be difficult to know how serious Trump is about a proposal until he acts on it. Article content Article content A majority, 62 per cent, say Trump is serious about serving a third term as president, even though the Constitution prohibits him from running again. Fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans think Trump is serious about doing this (and most Republicans oppose it), while about 6 in 10 independents and almost 9 in 10 Democrats think he is. Article content Article content Trump has increasingly flirted with the idea of a third run. The Trump Organization website now sells a T-shirt saying 'Trump 2028 (Rewrite the Rules)' and a 'Trump 2028' baseball cap. Trump has suggested 'methods' exist that would allow him to serve again. The 22nd Amendment says 'No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.' Article content The poll finds 71 per cent of Americans think Trump is serious about sending American citizens convicted of crimes to prisons in other countries, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents. Trump has repeatedly raised the idea, saying 'I'm all for it' this month when asked about the offer by El Salvador's president to hold U.S. citizens in the country's prisons, adding that 'I have to see what the law says.' Immigration experts say there is no legal way for a person with U.S. citizenship to be deported. Article content Article content A similar 68 per cent majority thinks Trump is serious about the U.S. trying to take control of Greenland, a perception that also crosses party lines. Trump has said the United States will 'get' Greenland, and White House officials have tried to determine the financial ramifications of the autonomous territory of Denmark becoming a U.S. territory. Article content Lastly, 53 per cent of the public thinks Trump is serious about trying to take control of Canada. Perceptions divide sharply on partisan lines, with 75 per cent of Democrats saying Trump is serious about this, compared with 49 per cent of independents and 35 per cent of Republicans.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Stephen A Smith says Trump's poor approval rating actually hurts Dems because they have no one to beat him
Donald Trump's low approval rating may not be great for the president — but it's also not great for the Democrats, commentator Stephen A. Smith argues. A recent Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll captured that more than half of Americans — 55 percent — disapprove of Trump's policies while just 39 percent approve. But the survey offered little relief for Democrats; 7 in 10 Americans said the party was 'out of touch' compared to 6 in 10 who said the same about Trump. The poll's findings marked the worst showing for a president at the 100-day mark in the last 80 years. On Monday's episode of his show, Smith argued that Trump's poor approval rating might be an even worse omen for the Democrats. 'Despite his low approval ratings, he's still more popular than the Democrats,' Smith, who has filtered with a 2028 presidential run, said. 'So it's really the ultimate indictment against the Democratic party because, again, despite the noise that he has made, and despite how unfavorably he's looked upon, the Democrats still can't beat him.' The Democrats still don't have a 'face that resonates nationally,' he continued. He pointed to Senator Cory Booker's record-breaking 25-hour Senate speech in which he protested the president's policies. 'Not too many people cared,' Smith said. Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been traveling across the country on a 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour. More than 36,000 people protested the Trump administration during their tour stop in Los Angeles this month. But, Smith argued, 'Going the hell off about Trump ain't gonna to get you so far because all you're showing us is that you're not willing to work with him. And because you're not willing to work with him — and the Democrats have control of neither the White House, the House of Representatives, or the Senate — you're powerless. You're just blowing into the wind.' Ocasio-Cortez, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer are some of the Democrats floating around as potential 2028 presidential contenders. After the findings were released, the president blasted the unfavorable polls — and their pollsters — in a Truth Social post. Trump demanded the pollsters 'be investigated for election fraud' who suffer from 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' and are the 'TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!'
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pedro Almodóvar Deems Trump ‘Greatest Mistake Of Our Time' In Fiery Speech
Pedro Almodóvar deemed President Donald Trump 'a catastrophe' and 'the greatest mistake of our time' while accepting an illustrious award Monday in New York. The Spanish director and screenwriter made the fiery remarks at the Film at Lincoln Center's annual gala, where he received the Chaplin Award for career achievement in the film industry. 'I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn't respect human rights,' Almodóvar told the starry crowd, which included legendary dancer-choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov and pop singer Dua Lipa. 'Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine.' Elsewhere in his speech, the two-time Oscar winner compared his childhood in Spain under dictator Francisco Franco to the experiences of present-day Americans under Trump. Addressing Trump directly, he noted: 'You will go down in history as the greatest mistake of our time. Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity. … You will go down in history as a catastrophe.' (Watch Almodóvar's speech in full here.) The filmmaker's made the remarks after a series of new polls have found Trump's popularity plummeting among U.S. voters. Among the most damning was a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll in which just 39% of respondents said they approve of the way the president is handling his job. Almodóvar rose to prominence in Spain in the early 1980s. His international breakthrough came in 1988 with the dark comedy 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,' starring Antonio Banderas. He's widely known among modern audiences for his collaborations with Banderas and Penélope Cruz, while his recent hits include 2016's 'Julieta' and last year's 'The Room Next Door,' starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. In addition to Almodóvar, recent Chaplin Award recipients include Jeff Bridges, Viola Davis and Spike Lee. Trump Gives Nonsensical Answer When Asked About Seeking Third Term Pedro Almodóvar Has Many Muses. This Time, He's One Of Them. Charlie Sheen Was Just Compared To Trump Again — But This Time There's A Compliment
