U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured) at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 29, 2025. REUTERS Kevin Lamarque
November 19, 2025
ALTERNET
A new poll conducted by Fox News shows that President Donald Trump has the highest disapproval rating on record. The conservative network also found large majorities of respondents disapproved of his ability to lower prices for daily necessities.
On Wednesday, Fox News reported that just 41 percent of those polled approved of Trump's performance as president, with 58 percent disapproving. When separating out respondents by party, 86 percent of Republican respondents approved of Trump's presidency, though that figure is down from 92 percent in March.
Roughly 76 percent of American voters have a negative view of the economy. Only 18 percent of those surveyed thought inflation was either completely or mostly under control. And large majorities of poll respondents said that costs for basic needs had either increased by a little or by a lot. 85 percent said groceries had increased (60 percent saying grocery prices went up by "a lot") while 78 percent of those polled said the same of utilities.
When concerning healthcare costs, 67 percent of respondents told Fox News that they were paying more in 2025 compared to last year. 66 percent said the same of housing costs. 53 percent said gasoline prices were more costly now than in 2024. Inside Elections deputy editor Jacob Rubashkin said the results were "arguably the most worrisome poll of Trump's second term and potentially first term too."
"Absolutely catastrophic numbers for Donny," tweeted Zenith Polls founding partner Adam Carlson.
The latest Fox News polls suggests a sharp divide between Americans and Trump's consistent argument that prices have gone down under his administration. When a three-time Trump voter sent him a message through Fox News host Bret Baier earlier this month to "please do something" about the cost of living, the president defended his economy and insisted that costs under him were lower than under former President Joe Biden.
The Fox News survey marks the first national poll by the conservative network since this month's elections, which saw Republicans lose by significant margins in multiple states to Democratic candidates who largely ran on lowering prices.
Click here to read the full poll results.
Trump paying price 'for telling Americans not to believe their own eyes': Nobel economist
Economist Paul Krugman at FIDES 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 25, 2023 (A. Pael/Shutterstock.com)
November 20, 2025
ALTERNET
When there’s a Republican in the White House, nobody cheers harder than a Republican voter, said Nobel economist Paul Krugman. Only now they’ve stopped cheering.
“People’s reported perception of the economy is strongly affected by whether their preferred party is in power,” said Krugman. “This is true for both parties, but historically Republicans have tended to cheer harder and boo louder than Democrats. So other things equal we would have expected average sentiment to improve under [President Donald] Trump II.”
“Now, things aren’t equal,” Krugman said. “Objectively, the economy is worse in important ways than it was a year ago. Still, the extent of the plunge in perceptions is remarkable.”
Krugman earlier reported that the “Biden era vibecession — people feeling bad about an economy that looked good by standard measures — has persisted under Trump,” but he added that “public perceptions of the economy appear to be plumbing new depths” based upon a Fox News poll exploring Republican attitudes toward Trump’s economic policies.
In that poll, Republicans’ concern about the cost of groceries had “increased a lot” for 60- percent of surveyed respondents, while 40 percent were equally concerned about the cost of utilities. Add that to the group who felt their concern “increase a little” and you’re looking at roughly 80 percent of Republican respondents increasingly bothered by groceries and utilities.
“Honestly, I’m surprised,” said Krugman. “… It may be that Trump is … actually paying a price for telling Americans not to believe their own eyes.”
Biden and company similarly told Americans that their incomes were outpacing inflation, which was true but not what people wanted to hear, said Krugman. However, Trump keeps “insisting that grocery prices are way down, which is simply a lie. And people may be noticing.”
“The absolute absurdity of the Trump team’s efforts to explain away bad economic news may also be taking a toll. Remember when [U.S. Secretary of the Treasury] Scott Bessent was supposed to be the adult in the room? Now he’s blaming migrants taking diseased cattle with them for high beef prices,” said Krugman.
Krugman also wondered if Trump’s other problems, including the Epstein implications and ICE persecutions, were “bleeding over to economic sentiment.”
“Political consultants like to imagine that the public makes clear distinctions between issues: ‘kitchen table’ versus democracy versus corruption. In reality public opinion is much more of a gestalt in which bad or good feelings on different issues merge,” said Krugman.
Read Krugman’s full report on his substack at this link.
When there’s a Republican in the White House, nobody cheers harder than a Republican voter, said Nobel economist Paul Krugman. Only now they’ve stopped cheering.
“People’s reported perception of the economy is strongly affected by whether their preferred party is in power,” said Krugman. “This is true for both parties, but historically Republicans have tended to cheer harder and boo louder than Democrats. So other things equal we would have expected average sentiment to improve under [President Donald] Trump II.”
“Now, things aren’t equal,” Krugman said. “Objectively, the economy is worse in important ways than it was a year ago. Still, the extent of the plunge in perceptions is remarkable.”
Krugman earlier reported that the “Biden era vibecession — people feeling bad about an economy that looked good by standard measures — has persisted under Trump,” but he added that “public perceptions of the economy appear to be plumbing new depths” based upon a Fox News poll exploring Republican attitudes toward Trump’s economic policies.
In that poll, Republicans’ concern about the cost of groceries had “increased a lot” for 60- percent of surveyed respondents, while 40 percent were equally concerned about the cost of utilities. Add that to the group who felt their concern “increase a little” and you’re looking at roughly 80 percent of Republican respondents increasingly bothered by groceries and utilities.
“Honestly, I’m surprised,” said Krugman. “… It may be that Trump is … actually paying a price for telling Americans not to believe their own eyes.”
Biden and company similarly told Americans that their incomes were outpacing inflation, which was true but not what people wanted to hear, said Krugman. However, Trump keeps “insisting that grocery prices are way down, which is simply a lie. And people may be noticing.”
“The absolute absurdity of the Trump team’s efforts to explain away bad economic news may also be taking a toll. Remember when [U.S. Secretary of the Treasury] Scott Bessent was supposed to be the adult in the room? Now he’s blaming migrants taking diseased cattle with them for high beef prices,” said Krugman.
Krugman also wondered if Trump’s other problems, including the Epstein implications and ICE persecutions, were “bleeding over to economic sentiment.”
“Political consultants like to imagine that the public makes clear distinctions between issues: ‘kitchen table’ versus democracy versus corruption. In reality public opinion is much more of a gestalt in which bad or good feelings on different issues merge,” said Krugman.
Read Krugman’s full report on his substack at this link.
No comments:
Post a Comment