Trump’s Approval Numbers Are Down. If You Are Protesting ICE, Your Approvals Are Up. (Yes, You.)
Polling is only getting worse for Trump, the GOP and ICE.
The latest Marist Poll numbers are out, and they tell the story we see every day and night on TV, social media, and the Internet.
Americans are pissed.
According to Marist, 49-percent of registered voters in the U.S. strongly disapprove of Donald Trump as president. On the flip side, 25 percent strongly approve.
It gets even worse when you look at individual issues.
YouGov, in an earlier poll after an ICE agent shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota, found that 39 percent of those polled supported ICE. But 42 percent approved of protests against ICE.
Congratulations: If you’ve taken to the streets to make your voice heard in opposition to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, you have a higher approval rating than the agency itself.
Yesterday, the Cook Political Report (subscription required) updated its ratings for U.S. House of Representatives races in the 2026 midterms, shifting 18 seats in favor of Democrats. As Cook’s Erin Covey writes:
“All the major indicators — the president’s unpopularity, special election results and the generic congressional ballot — point to a favorable environment for Democrats.”
Issue by issue, Trump - and the Republicans who have tethered themselves to him - are increasingly angering Americans: The economy, foreign policy, immigration.
Three-time Trump voters are increasingly saying they are off the MAGA Express.
Whether they are complaining about their health insurance costs skyrocketing with Trump and the GOP killing ACA subsidies that kept them affordable, or ICE’s increasing violence against citizens and non-citizens alike, or the Department of Justice’s continued refusal to release the Epstein Files as required by law, they’re done.
What’s on the horizon doesn’t appear to be of any help to Trump and the GOP, either.
At the end of the month, authorization for federal spending expires. Unless Congress agrees to fund the government, requiring at least some Democrats to go along, count on another shutdown.
Will the GOP buckle and re-authorize ACA subsidies?
Will they fight off efforts to block military action in Greenland and Venezuela?
And how will ICE funding play out?
And then there’s the thorny issue of tariffs. Will the U.S. Supreme Court find that Trump’s tariffs were - as clearly they were - unconstitutional?
Americans are in an increasingly dark mood. They are not getting happier. And, increasingly, Trump and the GOP are flailing.