Reuters/Ipsos poll: – 38% support Trump deploying the Nat'l Guard to DC. 46%opposed – Among independents, it's just 28% in favor, 51% opposed – Trump's approval remains at 40%. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
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40%... that's about the only thing that seems to have remained consistent over the years besides his ability to lie. 40% are diehard magats
aug 27, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
But according to Karl Rove, "Dems are losing on crime..."
aug 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
This is REALLY bad. Will people wake up and/or become more educated about our Constitution before it’s too late?
aug 27, 2025, 12:54 pm • 3 0 • view
It's confirmed: if 40 percent think Trump is a-okay, it's clear there are some incredibly stupid people out there!
aug 27, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Can we just accept that about a third of the population is, and has always been, fine with authoritarianism and fascism? That's why Trump's bottom is the mid-thirties. He will never lose those cult members.
aug 27, 2025, 12:54 pm • 59 1 • view
I was just thinking the same thing as I went to look at the comments.👍🏼💞
aug 27, 2025, 1:30 pm • 4 0 • view
The fact that we're a majority should be enough to stop this but only if more of us start actually acting like it.
aug 27, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGA is a cult on the level of Jim Jones. Trumpy could rape and murder their relatives and he’d *still* have MAGA’s undying devotion.
aug 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Bush got down to 25 percent after the economy crashed so that's probably Trump's floor. About 13 percent of people are okay with fascism as long as they aren't suffering economically, 25 percent are all in no matter what
aug 27, 2025, 2:41 pm • 10 0 • view
That is true.
aug 27, 2025, 3:15 pm • 1 0 • view
And trust me, I'm not saying that says great things about the morality or ethics of the average voter! But his support is likely softer than we think if affordability and layoffs get really bad
aug 27, 2025, 3:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Totally agree. Just not thrilled at the prospect of something like 08 happening again less than two decades later.
aug 27, 2025, 3:32 pm • 6 0 • view
I am one thousand percent with you! But clearly people have to learn the hard way, over and over
aug 27, 2025, 4:06 pm • 3 0 • view
the base is 32-34% of american voters. it's a consistent range that has uncannily held since 2017. key polling throughout the years has shown this time and time again. roughly 1/3rd, always. this is more than enough to bring on a fascist revolution like we saw in germany in the 1930s.
aug 27, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Dictatorship is not a popularity contest.
aug 27, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Just 38% are pro? That's frightening.
aug 27, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Put my name down in the group of people saying that 38% is dishearteningly high. The word “just” doesn’t fit. And any framing of it like that does us a disservice.
aug 27, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Nazi Germany did just fine with similar percentages.
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 13 0 • view
How do 40% of Americans have a positive opinion of this deranged clown?
aug 27, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
38% is a truly disturbingly high number!
aug 27, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Just 38% that is a lot of stupid hateful people Too much
aug 27, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Well you just have to love numbers. Now think about it for more than 30 seconds. 40% support a dictatorship in the USA. That’s really all you need to know about America today
aug 27, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
38% support treason against the United States and should be handled that way going forward: complicit in an attempted coup to overthrow democracy.
aug 27, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Certainly it was 0% of democrats.
aug 27, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Who approves this clown? I honestly want to meet such a person and talk to them over a beer.
aug 27, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s hard to believe that 40% can support Trump. So many Americans are irredeemable, cruel, and hopelessly ignorant.
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 14 2 • view
I see plenty of Republicans who are more supportive of Trump now than back in 2017 when they were far more skeptical and critical. Part of it is that it’s all about money now; the other part is that European-Americans have gotten more freaked out about future country as majority-minority.
aug 27, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I suspect some of it is that support for him has become normalized as well. His biggest cultural selling point has always been saying what his followers have wanted to say out loud, and giving them permission to say those things too. These people are showing their true colors.
aug 27, 2025, 3:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe it’s the fear of a Planet of the Apes type scenario? As usual, freak outs for no good reason.
aug 27, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Approval ratings are moot when you don’t have to worry about elections 🤦🏻♀️
aug 27, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I wish they'd tweak the questions sometimes like: Do you support President Trump deploying the National Guard in DC and Would you have supported Joe Biden deploying the National Guard in DC? Would you support the National Guard being deployed in your city?
aug 27, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
That 40% is being held up like AI stocks. By dark magic and the power of prayer.
aug 27, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
A reminder to Republican officeholders everywhere (hey Iowa, hey!) that Trump's approval was a similarly terrible 41% in the poll closest to Biden winning the November election.
aug 27, 2025, 2:35 pm • 1 0 • view
How is it that high????
aug 27, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Asking fox News viewers questions is pointless
aug 27, 2025, 12:44 pm • 7 0 • view
What is wrong with a third or more of your countrymen?
aug 28, 2025, 10:05 am • 0 0 • view
Lazy brains.
sep 1, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It's never going below 40% because that is the % of total morons.
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
40% of Americans need a civics lesson
aug 27, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s his cult. 35% +/- 5%. Everything around him comes in that approval range for his cult. Inflation, bribery, insurrection, Russia, rape, pedophilia. All of it.
aug 27, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
What have GOP 47 policies done to keep our kids safe? apple.news/ALy5BKiiZTZ6... & thehill.com/homenews/sta... Our communities? www.newsweek.com/map-least-sa... & www.kuow.org/stories/stat... & www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-pover... eddmarv.medium.com/those-people... NOTHING! Silence is consent.
aug 27, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
America: 38% white nationalists
aug 27, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
There's your buried lede: "Trump approval unchanged." This is why the media treats him as inevitable, invincible, obeying in advance and kowtowing. They're betting the odds that this is the new normal, and their salary depends on them being included in the new normal.
aug 27, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd like to see a poll of the actual guard members. How many of them are happy to be away from their regular jobs, families, and homes for an opportunity to be mocked at clean up trash in DC?
aug 27, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
If I'm reading this correctly 38-40% of the people are idiots
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
So scary that 40% of Americans support all the fascist shit that Trump is doing right now. I can't trust anyone around me anymore.
aug 27, 2025, 12:48 pm • 8 0 • view
Still too high
aug 27, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Gee, I wonder if any Democrats want to run with these facts?!?!! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social , @schumer.senate.gov ?????
aug 27, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
That math ain’t mathin. Unless you accept the premise that people hate his policies but love him anyway.
aug 27, 2025, 1:15 pm • 4 0 • view
His supporters have spoken against policies but not him. They think it's a mistake in implementation rather than the point.
aug 27, 2025, 2:51 pm • 3 0 • view
"If Comrade Stalin really knew what was happening he would..."
aug 27, 2025, 3:28 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s WAY to much support…
aug 27, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the time for people to remember to be nice to the guardsmen. They don't want to be here. They have families and jobs back home. Have some kind words, just not thank you for being here.
aug 27, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
That 38% of all Americans support this is deeply disheartening. As much as me and my 8th-grade buddies snickered and sneered at the jingoism of those "Americanism vs Communism" classes, grumpy old man me suspects our citizenry missed basic civics in school.
aug 27, 2025, 12:58 pm • 14 0 • view
This is more likely to be supported by the boomers and gen x so the failure was a long time ago The real problem is propaganda. Propaganda can get through almost any amount of education.
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 4 0 • view
I find these numbers immeasurably depressing. The American people are not who I thought they were.
aug 27, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
-40% of respondents masturbate to History Channel documentaries about Nazi Germany
aug 27, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
What’s the approve/disapprove on the sandwich guy
aug 27, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 27, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
38% are Nazis that worship a child rapist.
aug 27, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm shocked that 38% of Americans support a dictator! And a 40% approval rating is crazy. 4% would make more sense.
aug 27, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
38 & 40% approval rates are concerningly high.
aug 27, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
40% of America support a serial rapist and career criminal no matter how many people he kills, and no matter how much public money he stuffs in his own pockets. there is no way for America to ever recover for the shame of the last ten years, it is beyond redemption
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 pm • 27 2 • view
What about spreading mulch and picking up trash? Has Reuters polled that question? I’d be curious to see the response. Asking for a country.
aug 27, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
What would the answer have been if Biden deployed the troops. Blind loyalty in the face of misuse of our troops.
aug 27, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
28% of independents are for deploying the guard to DC? WT actual F?!??
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 19 0 • view
Lots of MAGA fancy themselves independent thinkers, not traditional GOP. So they identify as politically independent even though theyre not. These pills are shitty because they continue to use the old Dem/GOP paradigm instead of lib/con.
aug 27, 2025, 1:15 pm • 16 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
far too many fascists in this country
aug 27, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder how many of those 38% can even find D.C. on a map
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
WOW, America is fucked. #America #MAGA waste land.
aug 27, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems to me they want to inspire fear. There have been all these videos of people asking ICE agents: What’s your badge number? What authority are you here under?
aug 27, 2025, 12:56 pm • 5 1 • view
we need to yeet that 38% into the sun because they hate the values this country was founded on and trump will chase (and get) their approval to the end
aug 27, 2025, 2:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It should be lower!
aug 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
38% approve of the National Guard in DC picking up trash and spreading mulch.
aug 27, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The damning stat here: 16% don’t know !?! FFS people!
aug 27, 2025, 3:44 pm • 0 0 • view
It still blows my mind that 40% of people still support this 2 in 5!
aug 27, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
"We asked the same morons who just voted for these moronic policies what they think and they seem mad" News at 11
aug 27, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
40% approval is wild - 40% of Americans approve of these things! That’s gross
aug 27, 2025, 12:45 pm • 105 5 • view
Those 40% are like my mom... A low info, faux news watching gop voter. They believe what they are told to believe and they are vocal about it, no matter how stupid it makes them sound. They repeat the bullshit so much they believe it.
aug 27, 2025, 1:46 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s because 40% of people believe that DC is in need of policing because nobody is telling them otherwise
aug 27, 2025, 1:10 pm • 56 1 • view
Fox News has done an incredible job of polluting public perception with disinformation.
aug 27, 2025, 1:16 pm • 6 0 • view
Fox News is an excuse when the DNC is actively avoiding talking about DC
aug 27, 2025, 1:53 pm • 3 0 • view
right they're getting info from exclusively rw channels
aug 27, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Including Democrats who start every sentence with “of course there is a crime problem in DC” which is false.
aug 27, 2025, 1:23 pm • 60 2 • view
This! 👆🏻
aug 27, 2025, 2:47 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s incredibly aggravating that they ALL feel like they have to equivocate on this. Oh, what? The city/town/state isn’t COMPLETELY CRIME FREE?!?! FFS, stop that! I heard it at least half a dozen times last night even in MSNBC.
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 pm • 6 1 • view
I'm not American so I may be missing some context here, but is it not the case that the US is still incredibly violent by the standards of wealthy western countries? Is the point that DC is not unusually violent by US standards or in comparison with its own past?
aug 27, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I think part of the context you might be missing is the greater population in almost all of our large cities compared to Europe’s. But more importantly, yes, there is more violence here overall because of the horrible proliferation of guns. My point is that,
aug 27, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 0 • view
In the context of the militarization of our cities, just because there is not a zero crime rate DOES NOT JUSTIFY by any stretch of the imagination this blatant t misuse of the military. And it serves NO ONE to equivocate on this truth.
aug 27, 2025, 3:33 pm • 3 0 • view
There is violence in the United States, but DC doesn't come close to being the highest compared to other cities. He simply has the jurisdiction to do it because they don't have representation. So anything about crime distracts from the the fact that DC needs statehood and proper representation.
aug 27, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
The population of the DC Metro area is less than that of Greater London so I don't think population is terribly relevant. Guns are obviously a big part of the problem but what's wrong with acknowledging the violence and pointing out the cause rather than denying the problem?
aug 27, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Crime rate in DC - 38.2 crimes per 1,000 citizens Crime rate in London - The crime rate in London was 106.4 crime per 1,000 citizens Do you believe London has a crime problem requiring military occupation?
aug 27, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't believe either city requires military occupation. I also think it's hard to compare crime rates for much other than murder between different countries, as definitions vary so much. You can acknowledge the existence of a problem without accepting a false solution.
aug 27, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Does London have a crime problem?
aug 27, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Correct, my point is that there are many other cities that are significantly more dangerous than DC. So the fact that Trump and the GOP trot out the line that DC is a horrific hellscape in need of saying is just a lie. That does not address the fact that it's horrific to send the national guard.
aug 27, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The highest crime areas are red states and he isn’t deploying the National guard there. That’s the point. This has nothing to do with crime. And while I can see that it seems like we walk around in a constant state of gunfire, that’s not reality.
aug 28, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It's just racism
aug 27, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
So people were right to doubt the Harvard Caps / Harris poll "54% of voters say Trump’s actions in Washington, D.C. are justified and necessary" was hard to believe harvardharrispoll.com/press-releas...
aug 27, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
If you add all the undecided in Reuters poll then 54% would support the illegal occupation of DC. In this dark era we live, the undecided in polls means they support Trump but won't say so publicly.
aug 27, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
38% of people think that the US military being deployed into a city during peacetime as a flagrant political exercise is a good idea. I guess the US may be done after all.
aug 27, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
38% of Americans hate the United States
aug 27, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Do dictators really care about popularity polls? I'm not joking.
aug 27, 2025, 9:42 pm • 2 0 • view
He has a floor of 40% support no matter what which means he can EASILY win in 2028 in a landslide That’s the biggest takeaway from this
aug 27, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
How is it at 40%??
aug 27, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
People who check 'disapprove' on literally every single specific action/policy but then 'approve' overall...what, specifically, is going on in their Fox News-addled brain?
aug 27, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
38% support for this is *unconscionable*. More than 1/3 of Americans are cheering military dictatorship. We cannot recover from this. Not in *generations*.
aug 27, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Blue state secession looks better and better 😬
aug 27, 2025, 1:32 pm • 5 0 • view