Posted on 04/29/2025 8:38:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The country has been suffering for decades economically, culturally and politically — and the propaganda press wants you to care about approval ratings. As President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, headlines scream about “record-low” poll numbers. But here’s the thing: polls don’t fix nations — leaders do.
The same media that tried to convince us seven months ago that then-Vice President Kamala Harris had a legitimate chance to take Iowa could very well be running yet another psyop — bad polling — to malign Trump and stain his legacy. But let’s just pretend, for argument’s sake, that the propaganda press’ polling is accurate.
To borrow a line from Vice President JD Vance: “I don’t care, Margaret” — because I want my country back.
Even if what Trump is doing is “unpopular,” it’s necessary. Only a real leader can decipher the difference between what’s easy and what’s essential –and choose the hard path, even when it costs him politically.
A joint ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted by the left-leaning pollster Ipsos says Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 39 percent.
“The previous low in approval for a president at or near 100 days in office, in polls dating to 1945, was Trump’s 42 [percent] in 2017,” ABC’s Gary Langer reported. As my colleague Beth Brelje pointed out, “it is hard to trust ABC’s Trump coverage after its biased moderation against Trump in the 2024 presidential debates, or after the $15 million defamation settlement ABC agreed to pay Trump.”
Still, Langer reports that Americans “disapprove of Trump’s performance on six of seven issues tested…” including “stock market volatility, tariffs, foreign relations and the economy overall.”
Langer adds that 53% of Americans polled “said they disapprove of [Trump’s] handling of immigration.”
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS Research found Trump’s approval is 41 percent while a New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 42 percent.
Fixing the country won’t be painless. There’s no clean, easy way to undo decades of bipartisan failure. If we’re serious about saving America, we need a leader who’s willing to be hated by the pundits, pollsters, and even some short-term-minded Americans to do what’s right. These polls may very well be designed to put pressure on Trump to change course so that Washington D.C. and coastal elites can go back to the status quo — but Trump and the rest of America need not pay any mind to the “data.”
Take tariffs, for example. The polls claim to show Americans disapprove of Trump’s use of tariffs to cudgel other nations into engaging in fair trade practices and require Mexico and Canada to control their borders to stem the flow of illegal aliens and fentanyl. The propaganda press, those on the left, and even some faux-conservatives clutched their pearls at news of the tariffs and spread the message that tariffs will drive up costs and therefore Trump should not implement them (notably, the legacy media and the left were silent as Americans were crushed by record high inflation under the Biden administration).
The coverage of tariffs was a calculated tactic to gaslight Americans into believing they must choose between national sovereignty and low prices, access to cheap-Chinese-made goods or the longevity of our economy and domestic industries.
It was a false dichotomy.
Just because previous administrations were willing to relinquish our sovereignty and sell out blue-collar America in exchange for cheap goods and friendly handshakes with “leaders” on our southern and northern border doesn’t mean Trump should follow their failed policies. Trump wasn’t elected to protect the comfort of the global investor class — he was elected to restore American strength, even if that means rattling markets or bruising diplomatic relations.
But the propaganda press couldn’t accept that, so they twisted the coverage, warped pubic perception, and now fallback on that warped public perception as the basis for the polling.
According to CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, Trump’s “far-reaching efforts to reshape the federal government’s workforce” has also landed him in hot water with Americans, whose approved for managing the federal government has fallen.
Of course they have — because dismantling the entrenched, unaccountable bureaucratic state doesn’t poll well with the very institutions that benefit from it. The administrative state isn’t just ineffective, it’s un-American. It’s the fourth branch of government that nobody elected. It writes rules, enforces them, and punishes dissenters.
This isn’t governance — it’s a modern oligarchy. And Trump is the only one with the guts to storm the castle.
And perhaps the most important issue of them all: immigration.
Agiesta and Edwards-Levy report a “declining approval rating[s] and diminished confidence in Trump’s actions” when it comes to immigration.
This is no accident. The propaganda press has spent decades romanticizing illegal immigration while vilifying those who oppose it. They’ve referred to the illegal alien with gang affiliations as merely a “Maryland father” who was “mistakenly” deported. They’ve insisted that said illegal alien deserves “due process” — a political smokescreen designed to preserve the dividends of mass illegal immigration by delaying deportations indefinitely and draining public resources.
All of the coverage is designed to sabotage Trump’s lawful deportation effort and delegitimize it so that the American people sour on the efforts. And apparently, at least if you believe the polls, it’s working.
But once again, I don’t care and neither should you.
Mass migration (both legal and illegal) is a cultural wrecking ball, but let’s focus on illegal immigration for now.
America is not an empty vessel into which the world can pour itself. It’s a country built on shared principles, language, traditions, and a way of life. When you allow millions to enter en masse without enforcing assimilation, you turn America into a patchwork of unassimilated foreign enclaves. But assimilation is required for the preservation of the nation. Alexander Hamilton said as much in 1802:
“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
If we allow mass migration without the strict requirement for complete and total assimilation, we lose America.
The toughest problems this country faces cannot be solved with a smile, a handshake, and a high approval rating. They require grit, sacrifice, and a willingness to endure the slings and arrows of the media elite and their oh-so-“accurate” polling.
Trump isn’t chasing headlines. He’s not bending to pollsters. He’s doing exactly what needs to be done — even if it’s unpopular in the short term — because the long-term survival of this country depends on it.
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The polls are not accurate, they are fake dim polls. The same one that said months ago Kamala would win.
The same New York Times/Siena College poll predicted a Kamala sweep in November. No thank you.
It’s actually pretty impressive that he’s maintaining the polling numbers that he is considering how much the polls are manipulated.
When you consider the constant drum beat of negative coverage by the media and democrats as well as completely ignoring all positive accomplishments.
Imagine what his numbers would be if we had even a marginally objective media.
Dim and RINO too.
Who cares if the polls are accurate? Trump is throwing “Hail Marys” here trying to save what’s left of this country and by extension the western world. If he doesn’t at least try the downstream effects are the stuff of nightmares. If we don’t get our $hit together at least a little bit most people can’t comprehend the world of hurt we are in for. there is no more “kicking the can down the road”. Doing the right thing and telling the truth are never popular in modern America. People expect to live in a fantasy world where deficit spending amounts to 10% of GDP.
I agree, the polls are not accurate. My gut is, that we are about to see the most amazing, breathtaking, rebirth of our country in our history.
News Break. Trump is a lame duck president
Polls Don’t Matter!
He has never had coattail followers elected because of him.
It’s done when he is done.
“Even If The Polls Are Accurate, I Don’t Care. I Want My Country Back”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/29/even-if-the-polls-are-accurate-i-dont-care-i-want-my-country-back/
Appreciate your post, Thank.
Day after day the media tells us a story. Day after day we find out it was all a lie. Day after day we still believe.
When will we just laugh in their faces and ignore their lies?
The only problem with JD’s line is that she actually was Margaret. I would have preferred Virginia.
This whole article is per the leftists’ plan.
- Gin up a bad/fake poll (yesterday by comparison Rasmussen was 47%? or 48%).
- Dims and MSM run around making their statements that Trump Must Stop Now Because Everyone Hates Him (which is their take on any day ending in Y)
- Worse yet conservative media, instead of focusing on the job, starts writing defensive articles and wasting time on countering the fake-news assault.
It’s one of their favorite and most effective schemes. Works for them all the time. Daily, even the last three months, moderate to serious conservative TV will spend a significant portion of time **showing you** extreme leftists on TV “so they can comment on them” — but they still give them free airtime. Yesterday no end of airtime wasted on this poll.
Can we hear about the progress made? How about deportations? A story on how people are leaving voluntarily with freebies dwindling? Maybe on the renewed military? Nope, gotta tell the MAGA about how we’re on the defensive and what the lefties want them to hear, demoralize and discourage.
Make America Great Again
Unless it gets uncomfortable.
President hillary said so. So did president kamalturd.
And even if it is fact, so what. There are people who get scared anytime you do something different.
Ain’t it the truth!
Trump’s poll numbers are what they are.
He’d still win a national election against any loser the Democrat wing of the uniparty could put up.
Problem is there is NO ONE elected to congressional office or a governorship in the Republican wing of the uniparty who can effectively articulate the America First agenda.
Trump won ninety per cent of the counties and yet the Republican wing of the uniparty could barely translate that into a slim majority.
I have no doubt Trump is popular.
I have no doubt the NATIONAL Democrat brand is at an all time low.
But I doubt if the Republican wing of the uniparty can maintain control of the House at midterms.
Mike Johnson PERFECTLY reflects the Republican caucus in the House.
A bunch of namby pamby timid mice who are looking to do no more than what it takes to get re-elected.
The Republican wing of the uniparty SABOTAGED Trump’s first term.
That same wing is doing him no favors the second time around.
“Even If The Polls Are Accurate,.....”
THEY ARE NOT!
More LIES from the opposition (the media)
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