DoomsdaysCW<p>Some good news. Hopefully, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> will piss off everyone (except for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchs</span></a>). And we all know how fragile T's ego is.</p><p>Warning signs for Trump in new polling</p><p>Two new polls show the president’s approval rating is slipping.</p><p>By Jessica Piper<br>02/20/2025</p><p>"Donald Trump’s honeymoon may be wearing off.</p><p>"New polls show a majority of Americans say he has overstepped his presidential authority — and hasn’t done enough to address high prices.</p><p>"One reason for the erosion of support: a slight majority of respondents in both surveys said Trump has overstepped his presidential power in his attempts to reshape the federal government driven by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Many of Trump’s most controversial early initiatives, including a sweeping spending freeze, have been blocked in court thus far, but the new administration has still made waves with layoffs of federal workers, cuts to federal contracts and a flood of executive orders.</p><p>"Those activities haven’t been popular, the new polling found. In the Post survey, for example, 58 percent of respondents opposed laying off large numbers of federal workers. And Musk, Trump’s most high-profile adviser, is not getting good marks either: Just 34 percent of respondents in the Post poll approved of Musk’s role in the federal government, while 54 percent of respondents in the CNN poll said it was bad for Trump to have given the SpaceX CEO a prominent role in his administration.</p><p>"Americans also remain skeptical of Trump’s handling of an issue the public has long said is among the most important: high prices. In the CNN survey, 62 percent of respondents — including 47 percent of Republicans — said the president has not done enough to try to reduce the prices of everyday goods."</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/cnn-washington-post-polls-trump-approval-00205169?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2025/02/20/c</span><span class="invisible">nn-washington-post-polls-trump-approval-00205169?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hubris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hubris</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KingTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingTrump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumptyDumpty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumptyDumpty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>