Trump’s Disapproval Surpasses 50% Nationwide, Revealing Ruling Class Crisis

Peter Cherry

President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating has exceeded 50% nationwide and reached 60% in several key regions, according to recent polling data released by the bourgeois media. Surveys indicate that disapproval has risen across various states, reflecting growing public dissatisfaction with his administration’s policies.

In California and New York, disapproval ratings have climbed to 62% and 58%, respectively. In “swing states” during elections such as Pennsylvania and Michigan, disapproval has reached 49% and 53%. Notably, in the Midwest and Northeast regions, disapproval ratings have consistently surpassed 50%, signaling a significant shift in public opinion.

Economic Crisis Fuel Discontent

Economic indicators have contributed to the declining approval ratings. As explained on The Worker in a previous editorial, US real GDP growth is expected to drop by 1.8% and inflation is expected to increase by more than 3%, representing more layoffs and increased price of necessary goods. A CBS poll unsurprisingly said that 66% of people believe the administration is not doing enough to curb inflation. Another 34% expressed skepticism that inflation would bring jobs back, with another 34% anticipating no jobs will return at all.

The Commerce Department reported a 0.3% contraction in the US GDP during the first quarter of 2025. This economic downturn has further eroded public confidence in Trump, who falsely lauded the tariffs as a means of bolstering the national economy even though the cost has inevitably fallen on the American people.

JP Morgan and bourgeois media “experts” from the press monopolies have admitted that the tariffs are less about generating jobs and more as a weapon. They are about the plans of imperialism to assert American hegemony internationally tocontend with German imperialism and Chinese social -imperialism in order to secure “bilateral” deals, and to further bully the colonies and semi-colonies into permitting even deeper exploitation by US monopolies. The new ruling class consensus has shifted to admitting that tariffs are taxes that will make products more expensive and reduce the consumption capacity of the world’s population, including Americans.

Expected Cuts to Services, Education, And Health Care

Trump has also come under fire for the ongoing war on the poor through austerity, eliminating spending in the public budget to afford sweeping tax breaks for billionaires and the monopolies they own. In education, there was the recent announcement that the Department of Education would resume collections on defaulted loans for 5.3 million defaulted student loan debt borrowers, with around 4 million more approaching default status this year. The government plans to unleash private collection companies on retired and poor students, permitting them to seize whole tax refunds, and up to 15% of Social Security, disability, and work checks.

In health care, the Republican mafia in alignment with the administration’s goals announced plans to implement historic cuts to Medicaid which will leave millions of the poor, elderly, disabled and children with special needs without needed health care. The proposed $600 to 900 billion in cuts to the program would remove millions of enrollees and reduce payments for necessary care. This can take the form of someone receiving cancer treatments no longer having coverage, an elderly adult losing home based care services, and children no longer being able to afford insulin for their diabetes.

The prevalence of food insecurity and poverty in the world’s richest nation has increased in light of these proposals, just as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced $1 billion in cuts to nutrition programs that helped public schools and food banks to buy products from farmers. These anti-people policies have resulted, according even to Jeff Bezo’s owned Washington Post polling, in 57% disapproving of DOGE’s cuts.

False Opposition And the Need For a Real Movement

The rejection however of the Democratic mafia is even lower — according to CNN polling the Democratic Party’s polling rating is at 29%. This is the lowest it has been since 1992. Around 57% of those who voted for Democrats shared in the same poll that they felt Democratic leaders were not doing enough to resist Trump’s agenda — an acknowledgment of the collusion of Congressional leaders like New York’s Chuck Schumer and Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman with the Trump administration.

What’s needed is a movement independent from the Democratic or Republican mafias—the poorest working masses are growing disillusioned with them, but they lack a Party of their own. As such, there is a void that can only be filled through mass mobilization led by the Communist Party, only achieved through its reconstitution.

Image: Trump speaks at a Department of Energy event “Unleashing American Energy” during his first term in 2017

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