GOP blames tariffs, economic uncertainty for low Trump approval rating

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

04/28/25 8:08 PM ET


Republicans on Capitol Hill are laying the blame for the recent dip in President Trump’s approval ratings at the feet of economic and tariff uncertainty as his administration hits the 100-day mark.

Tuesday marks the 100th day of the Trump administration 2.0, capping off a topsy-turvy stretch marked by a litany of executive orders, unpredictable tariff policy, a roller coaster on Wall Street and controversial immigration-related efforts.

The whirlwind of a stretch is translating to lagging poll numbers. A Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll released on Sunday found that Trump’s approval rating among adult Americans dropped by six points over the past two months, from 45 percent in February to 39 percent in March.

The numbers are similar in a survey by The New York Times/Siena College. Forty-two percent of voters nationwide approve of the job Trump is doing. Gop lawmakers are chalking the numbers up to the recent economic tumult.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5271982-gop-blames-tariffs-economic-uncertainty-trump-approval/

[BOSSHOG]

1. IOW the GOP blames trump for trumps disapproval ratings

telling the truth without using a name. How quaint. Tariff uncertainty? By the greatest business mind ever in the history of the universe. Just give him another 100 days.

[Lonestarblue]

2. GOP should also be looking at themselves.

Those in Congress have the power to take the levying of tariffs away from Trump. If they fail to do that, democrats need to hit them hard on their failures in 2026.

[Lovie777]

3. All this time................

hearing that Democrats just don't get it.

In reality, it is the GQP coupled with insane crudity, something in the years of my life that Democrats never portrayed.

Go figure.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. They've not yet coined a term for "nuking the legal system" let alone polled for it

The Bill of Rights is on life support. Lawyers and judges could be out of an occupation. All federal functions neutered if not castrated. And they worry about tariffs?

[Midnight Writer]

5. Gee, voters are not happy with tariffs and economic uncertainty.

So they have identified their problem, but they are too scared to say his name aloud.

[Magoo48]

6. Is it time to change their monicker? There is nothing "grand "about this party. How about, the old fascist party.OFP

[William Seger]

8. Greedy Oligarchs and Plutocrats

[Magoo48]

14. Yup, that'll work too.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

7. That article kind of reads like Edgar Allan Poe's, "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"....

Republicans in congress truly do not have any understanding about what is going on in the outside world and how much pain their dysfunction is poised to bring to the American people. They seem to believe the insanity is normal while it is the rest of the world that doesn't understand--but will eventually.

But the problem is this: While Americans seem to be waking up to the fact that the asylum is now being run by the inmates, they do not see Democrats as the sane people that should be in charge--but just another set of inmates....

[William Seger]

9. Wait until the pain really starts to hit

Between the tariffs and the loss of immigrant farmworkers, there is some serious economic pain coming for all of us, plus millions of Americans will find out what all those fired federal workers were doing. If King Dunning-Kruger doesn't succeed in destroying free elections, the MAGA party will be burned to the ground in '26! It's even possible that Republicans will be scared enough to vote for impeachment to try to save the party in '28.

[Prairie Gates]

10. GOP blames policy failures and economic mismanagement for Trump's low approval

How is this headline variation not exactly the same in meaning as the one provided by the Hill?



I don't read articles by The Hill since they conspired numerous times with GOP governments to foist lies on the American people.

[struggle4progress]

11. "It's just unfair to blame him for his whack-a-doodle appointees and policies"

[Martin68]

12. Some real geniuses in the Republican Party!

[republianmushroom]

13. Are they not republican tariff and the republican economy ?

They surely aren't Biden's.