{"id":3399,"date":"2026-07-13T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:10:25","slug":"delusional-trump-80-dreams-up-approval-figures-as-disaster-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"Delusional Trump, 80, Dreams Up Approval Figures as Disaster Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Donald Trump has found a new way of self-soothing\u2014by swapping around his approval and disapproval ratings to make himself sound more popular.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3397\">Trump Promotes Right-Wing Host\u2019s Wild Foul-Mouthed Demand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the 80-year-old president boasted about his \u201c59 percent\u201d approval rating, which he attributed to \u201cprices coming down along with the lowering of oil and gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>However, there are no reputable polls showing Trump with anything close to a 59 percent approval rating. In fact, several surveys published over the last few weeks show the president\u2019s <i>disapproval <\/i>rating is closer to 59 percent, and in some cases even higher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>There have been repeated warnings that Trump\u2019s poor approval rating and handling of the economy are likely to have a disastrous effect on the GOP in November\u2019s midterms, with Republicans facing a potential electoral wipeout in the crucial nationwide elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to Silver Bulletin, Nate Silver\u2019s polling and election-forecasting Substack, Trump\u2019s current national average approval rating is a dire 40.1 percent, while his disapproval rating stands at 56.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Trump\u2019s average approval rating was above 50 percent was in February 2025, with the deeply unpopular war in Iran and rising gas prices helping drive the president\u2019s national average down into the high 30s at times.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple polls published in June and July, which are included in Silver Bulletin\u2019s average, show the president with approval ratings that do not come close to the 59 percent Trump claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A TIPP Insights survey of 1,473 U.S. adults, published on July 6, found Trump with just a 38 percent approval rating, compared with a 54 percent disapproval rating.<\/p>\n<p>A July YouGov\/The Economist  also revealed similarly dire numbers for the president, with 35 percent of Americans approving of Trump\u2019s job performance and a whopping 61 percent disapproving.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3395\">Trump Honors \u2018Dear Friend\u2019 Graham With a Tribute to Himself<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has not been a single poll within 10 percentage points of the 59 percent approval rating Trump claims to have recorded since early June. <\/p>\n<p>The closest is a Zogby Analytics  from early July, which found Trump with a 47 percent approval rating and a 57 percent disapproval rating.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Even Rasmussen Reports, one of Trump\u2019s favored polling firms that often skews results to favor GOP candidates, cannot mask how unpopular the president is with Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen\u2019s latest numbers put Trump\u2019s approval rating at 45 percent and his total disapproval at 54 percent, including 43 percent who said they \u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of his performance as president.<\/p>\n<p>Whit Ayres, a leading Republican pollster, warned that historical precedent suggests the GOP is likely to lose control of the House in the midterms because of the president\u2019s poor approval ratings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the party in power tends to lose House seats in a midterm election, but the number of seats lost is highly correlated with the president\u2019s popularity,\u201d Ayres told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen presidential job approval is above 50 percent, the average loss of House seats for his party is 14. When it\u2019s below 50 percent, the average loss of House seats for his party is 32.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3394\">Mitch McConnell\u2019s Staff Issues New Statement From His Hospital Bed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has found a new way of self-soothing\u2014by swapping around his approval and disapproval ratings to make himself sound more popular. Read more Trump Promotes Right-Wing Host\u2019s Wild Foul-Mouthed Demand In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the 80-year-old president boasted about his \u201c59 percent\u201d approval rating, which he attributed to \u201cprices coming down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delusional Trump, 80, Dreams Up Approval Figures as Disaster Looms - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3399\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Delusional Trump, 80, Dreams Up Approval Figures as Disaster Looms - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump has found a new way of self-soothing\u2014by swapping around his approval and disapproval ratings to make himself sound more popular. 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