Outlier or Real Deal? New Poll Shows Trump’s Approval Rating Rising Amid Tariffs Debate
“Trump’s rising approval rating is surprising given the flak the White House has received over the tariff order signed Wednesday.”
The narrative being spun by the media-driven “Do you regret your vote for Trump?” campaign would have people thinking that many supporters who voted for President Trump are unhappy with what he’s done since taking office and wish they hadn’t.
“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” one West Virginia woman who was handed her walking papers told CNN last week, as we previously reported.
“I expected better from you. I really did,” she also said.
However, polling over the last few weeks has been mixed, with some showing more disapproval than approval of his performance so far, while others have Trump either at the even mark or slightly more approving than disapproving.
But a new J.L. Partners poll out from the UK’s Daily Mail shows Trump at a place he has rarely been since his second term started: With an approval rating of over 50%, with 53% of voters supporting him amid the heated debate over his tariffs strategy:
President Donald Trump is more popular now than before he sent the global markets into a frenzy by enacting sweeping new tariffs.
An exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners survey of over 1,000 registered voters conducted from March 31 to April 3 found that the Republican remains largely popular in the U.S.
The poll found that Trump’s approval rating rose to 53 percent, a 4-point increase over last week when it was 49 percent.
Trump’s rising approval rating is surprising given the flak the White House has received over the tariff order signed Wednesday.
Daily Mail/J.L.Partners poll of over 1,000 reg. voters since President Trump unleashed his tariffs—his approval rating rose 4% to 53%. To those of you who enjoyed your precious “Hands Off” protests today, don’t look at the crosstab for folks aged 18-29; it will crush your souls. pic.twitter.com/NQf3gvTO3S
— Gary Prange (@GaryP11111) April 6, 2025
The crosstabs are indeed interesting, showing Trump’s approval “up by 13 points since March 7 among those aged 18 to 29” and that “support among black voters skyrocketed 17 points since last week,” which would be pretty remarkable if true.
On tariffs, 39% supported increasing them. 37% were against and 24% weren’t sure.
While it’s possible the poll is an outlier, I should note that J.L. Partners put in a pretty impressive showing with their projections and predictions on the 2024 presidential election:
But it looks like British pollsters J.L. Partners may well end up being among the most accurate in their final pre-election predictions. The firm’s final model was just one of two to forecast a Trump victory and it also projected him winning the Electoral College 287-251 — the highest projected Trump-winning margin of any pollster. It was also one of very few pollsters to predict Trump would win the popular vote.
Time will, of course, tell if this is the beginning of a trend or a one-off. In the meantime, however, conservative Twitter/X netizens are weighing in with their approvals:
I voted for this. pic.twitter.com/JjzOM49HBK
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) April 4, 2025
This is exactly what I voted for. pic.twitter.com/R2aNtA5nVd
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 6, 2025
Woman cries because she says she got fired from her non-profit after a DOGE cut to their funding.
Non-profits being defunded by federal government is what I voted for.
This woman will get another job and our country will be saved.
America is healing. pic.twitter.com/85StfXWaAo
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) April 4, 2025
Trump's admin has suspended Maine's federal funding in response to the state's policy permitting men to participate in women's sports.
Is this what you voted for?
— Dr. Joseph Ford Cotto (@JosephFordCotto) April 5, 2025
POV: Me watching President Trump do exactly what I voted for..! pic.twitter.com/tmfbU8lwiN
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) April 4, 2025
This is what I voted for 👇 pic.twitter.com/I9PWsg21ej
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) April 6, 2025
Getting what I voted for again https://t.co/vmSkwgW8cd pic.twitter.com/qYLpcOjB8c
— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐫 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 (@TheFarRightSide) April 5, 2025
BREAKING: 40 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members and affiliates arrested in a massive operation near Austin, TX.
This is exactly what I voted for! pic.twitter.com/w4500Ei0d8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2025
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I’m enjoying the left enjoy a shit show of their own design.
You damn lefty idiots made your beds, and we the adults will send you off to them without supper.
“The media ask, ‘Do you regret voting for Trump?’ ”
No. I’d do it again today. Although I was aware of Trump’s impulsiveness, pettiness, and authoritarian tendencies, the alternative was to vote for a cackling airhead who was absolutely cerain to let her handlers auto-pen our country into tyranny and Woke idocracy at home, and WW3 abroad.
Dear concern troll: In spite of an incredibly weak “I’m a Trump voter too!” mention, it is because you fell the need to reflexively denigrate Trump that your comments are typically downvoted and you are probably the third least respected commenter on this site (only Junior and Tranvestite56 consistently beat your time).
Your insights are shallow and your shtick is wearisome, but you persist. I guess that’s admirable, in its way.
Yes, I persist even though several regulars here have told me repeatedly to stop posting in these comment sections, and go away. As do the hive-mind liberals in the anti-Trump echo-chambers where I dispute their attacks upon some of his policies.
So noble, making such a difference protecting everyone from themselves.
Uh huh. Yes, we absolutely believe you, too.
*eyeroll*
Obsession about the supposed motivations of “outsiders” is another characteristic echo chambers.
Of course I’d vote for him again. Before SC’s Clyburn interfered and engineered the 2020 SC primary to Joe’s favor, Sanders was odds-on favorite to be the D nominee. Such a stark contrast would have been the 2020 election: full-bore socialism v. Trump’s winning ways.*
American would have been presented with the question, Which Way, America?
Obviously the Establishment knew how America would choose, explaining why the “moderate” Scranton Joe was offered up, and Sanders was knifed again.
Harris-Trump was a muted Sanders-Trump. The Establishment got the answer to Which Way. And they don’t like it.
*Despite having Ryan as the Speaker (2017-2018) which assured the loss of the House in Nov. 2018 and the designed COVID panic.
I have a valid question…why do my comments only appear when I am logged in?
There is no need to hide our opinions from lurking left loons. Capitulation does not win wars.
It’s called shadow banning. It’s happened to me, but I don’t think it’s maliscious on the part of L.I.
I think it’s from their anti-spam comment filtering. They usually approve comments.
Any post containing a naughty word is thrown into this state. Examine the URL field and see it if has a “moderation” tag in it, which means it’s still waiting for approval and only you can see it, If your post expresses any mature logic at all, it will be approved quickly. Be aware that some of the naughty words on that list are obscure indeed.
Can you post the list which I assume you compiled from trial and error?
Of course I can’t post it, you bozo. 🤣
Pretty much anything on George Carlin’s list will get you there, but really, not a whole lot else. Some of my posts have gotten on the moderation queue for no reason I could deduce (all my words were innocuous).
There is another class of moderation I haven’t be able to suss out, that puts your posting into a weird state but doesn’t show a moderation flag in the URL. The tell is that if you try to immediately reply to a posting you made (e.g., to correct a typo or add a point you forgot) you get a message that you “can’t reply to an unapproved post” (whereas an immediate reply to yourself is generally successful). Yet the URL shows no evidence of any approval queue, and again, all the words seem to be innocuous..
I voted for ALL OF THIS! Maybe we can save this country after all.
Recent revelations about the CIA, in newly-declassified materials about the JFK assassination, convince me even further that voting against Kamala was the right call. As do the Dem congresspersons’ efforts to continue the half-century cover-up of the CIA’s likely involvement.
I 100% voted for this. Just imagine if Kamala “word salad” Harris and Tim Walz won.
And just imagine what Harris’s and Waltz’s handlers would have been doing while those two buffoons were distracting people.
There is also a part where people are seeing the face of the resistance and understanding how sick and extreme these people are. Just look at the TDSers here. There are so many examples, as the next one keys a Tesla and takes a check from Soros.
The prospect of having an investigation like Doge is one of the things that persuaded me to vote for Trump. Another was that if the Dems had won, they’d have given free rein to the sort of political violence that we’re seeing from anti-Musk protesters.
Indeed, I was thinking that this very effect may explain the poll that is the subject of this article. Trump gets convicted of more “felonies?” Trump inexplicably becomes more popular. Trump gets pilloried for his tariffs by Democrats and their puppet media? Trump inexplicably becomes more popular. I pray this means that America* has finally looked behind the curtain at the Democrat Party and decided to ignore (or better, act contrarily to) every shriek they utter.
*Modulo the party’s purple-haired, livestock-jewelry-wearing hardcore, which as it turns out is a much smaller chowder and marching society than carefully mis-portrayed by the Dems and their media.
Yeah I voted for most of this and I’d vote for it again given a second chance. I wish the messages were better delivered and I feel uneasy about some of the message and some of the people but overall I’m not surprised by anything and I’m relatively satisfied with the performance of the administration.
Congress remains a major problem. To them I say do what we voted for or get out of the f’g way.
As for the “media”, you can’t hate them enough, Ignore them and boycott their advertisers.
I’ve been a ‘burn it all down and hang all the traitors’ dissident for many years now. Retribution and punishment. Prosecute and imprison, or it’s still just *clown world* – and then make em all apologize to the memory of Richard Nixon. He was a saint compared to this JoeBama hive of scum & villany.
Trump’s off to a good start. Bravo. Forty-four more months to go. Ramp it up. Let’s go! Finish strong. Start building scaffolds now.
Someone down voted me. LOL
The Trump Admin was elected to disrupt the globalist, corporatist, DC, grifter status quo. They are following through on campaign pledges to end open borders, deport beginning with most dangerous subset, get our ‘allies’ to increase their defense spending/take.direct responsibility for their own defense, gut the grifter cabal of NGO, root out waste, fraud, abuse with DOGE, get better trade policies with less protectionist friction from other Nations, upend the bureaucracy, push back hard on globalism and reset the post cold war order away from US.A as world police/economic ‘mark’.
These are huge changes. Lots of vested interests grown fat over the past 5-8 decades on the rule set that favored them. Their ‘rice bowl’ is getting broken. Their grift or era of easy money with a stacked deck if you prefer is ending. Lots of whining and temper tantrums. It’s like telling an ungrateful adult 18 HS graduate child to get a job instead of sitting around playing video games. They feel entitled to the way things USED to be and want to reject any attempt to enforce the NEW paradigm. Tough cookies. The USA under Trump is shaking off the freeloaders, the grifters and the free riders who still, despite Trump campaign promises, can’t quite accept that a new day is dawning. One that places the well being of US Citizens in the broad middle-class at the apex of policy making. Unless it benefits the middle 70% of US Citizens then the policy is probably gonna be altered to do so.
This tariff policy dramatically reveals THE MORON’S Economic ignorance .,which is well known among us intelligent , normal folk. That group includes almost every reputable conservative economist, btw.
“Trump’s long history of economic illiteracy suggests he is determined to pursue this trade war, which features import taxes that are much steeper and far broader than the ones he imposed during his first term, no matter how much pain it inflicts on American consumers and businesses. If there is any cause for hope on that score, it is Trump’s similarly long-standing eagerness to look like a winner by making shrewd deals. The tension between those two instincts explains why Trump contradicts himself by presenting his tariffs as both a short-term bargaining tactic and a long-term strategy for raising revenue and boosting the U.S. economy.”
https://reason.com/2025/04/04/trumps-longtime-obsession-with-trade-deficits-suggests-his-tariffs-wont-end-soon/
Hey- we tolllllllld ya.
How’s yer 401 k’s doin”redhats?
LAFFRIOT
“How’s your 401 k’s doing?”
Badly, at present. But I voted for DJT b/c I knew that the same was certain to happen if Kamala won — the Dems’ warmongering, reckless spending, and deliberately destructive social policies were going to bring us to ruin.
Kamala was going to tax the “profits” in my 401K that I wasn’t even allowed to realize yet — not just robbing me, but destroying my future compounding ability. Under Kamala, that damage would have been permanent, every year. Under Trump, it’s a minor temporary correction on the road to WAY better earnings.
good little cult boy. I hope Orange Harvey sends you an autographed Bible and red hat. LAFFRIOT
I hope he sends you a birthday drone.
“Kamala was going to tax the “profits” in my 401K that I wasn’t even allowed to realize yet”
Thanks for mentioning that Dem scheme. I’d forgotten about it.
all those things happened for 4 years under Biden and what did we get? record Dow. Didn’t think that one through didja??LAFFRIOT
“record Dow. Didn’t think that one through didja??”
Actually, I did. A fat lot of good a record Dow was going to do if the Dems destroyed the country.
Along with the “record Dow” were record deficits (with no end in sight), and a policy toward Russia and Ukraine that was was leading us into WW3. Plus, criminal illegals flooding US, while the Dems sought to disarm law-abiding citizens. And of course, unaccompanied minors crossing the border, into God-knows-what sorts of exploitive labor and sex slavery.
A continuation of that trend would have brought ruin.
The stock markets are not the economy. If you must have a daily track of economic health the bond market, particularly the yield on the ten year Treasury is far better. IMO the better gauge is the # and trend line of workers in manufacturing and industrial jobs. These pay good wages and have solid benefits..
The stock market performance under Biden was largely a result of bad monetary and fiscal policy injecting newly created $ into the economy. That roughly $6 Trillion injection created a huge bump in $ supply which lowered the value/purchasing power of existing $….aka inflation. That policy fueled the current asset bubble. Eventually there will be a correction and over inflated asset prices particularly real estate and stocks with Cray Cray EPS ratios will fall.
If you’re just putting $ into the stock market b/c ‘it is supposed to go up’ without understanding risks or what the companies you buy actually do, what their fundamental value is that’s not investing, it’s speculation or gambling. Bragging about a busted asset bubble is like bragging about an ‘awesome keg party Bro’ it’s a hangover after a party where your porch got burned, the girl you hooked up with got pregnant, you got arrested, waiting to be bonded out, your employer saw your drunken social media posts and fired you.
WHEN did we get ‘record Dow’ though?
AFTER the midterms, when the House flipped to R.
Can you please explain just how it is not a “trade war” or not “inflationary” when every other nation on the planet imposes tariffs on US stuff, but only becomes so when the US follows suit?
Keep it up. You are the cause of Trump. Simply too ignorant to know that the TDS cult has exposed itself by its hate and sanctimony, and anti-Americanism, and has been rejected.
It will get worse for the cult because, for all its crowing, it has no sense of reality other than the rage caused by its intolerance and outright bigotry.
Thank you so much!
He’d be out keying Teslas, but he can’t find his keys.
Its on the string around his neck where his Mom put it so he wouldn’t lose it.
When Trump was elected in 2016 I said it was because of Obama and I told that to plenty of Obama supporters.
This time around Trump got elected because of unreasonable and illegal democratic lawfare against him and the gaming and subverting of the judicial system by democrats. Also because of the potato Biden and the nonstop lying by democrats and the press (but I repeat myself) about his capability to serve and the accountability of whoever was running things. Also the democrat policies just sucked.
Everything you said, plus the cover-up of Biden’s senility, and the two attempts on DJT’s life.
The tipping point came when the Trump administration stopped calling them tariffs and began calling them the more-accurate term, RECIPROCAL tariffs. The first implies “we’re doing something against them” and the second correctly points out “They did something against us and we’re hitting them back.”
The Trump administration could improve their communication strategy to better explain the full.range of protectionist barriers. Not just tariffs buy also import restrictions, direct subsidies to their producers, indirect subsidies for their economy, currency manipulation, dumping of products and even forms of arbitrage via transport and cross shipment from lower rate Nations.
All these things are used in some form or another by other Nations. Setting a zero tariff rate on imports means jack squat if there is a restriction that prohibits imports. Protectionism is multifaceted and Trump is using the.Tariff lever to upend the decades of unfair trade policies towards the USA, including from some of our ‘allies’. IMO the WH needs to do a better job of making the case in a comprehensive way to refute/mitigate the simplistic and largely disingenuous attacks on the Trump Tariffs.
“…and the company I work for, which is a nonprofit, laid me off.”
But didn’t close its doors, right? That means that your bosses (not President Trump) evaluated the goal of every job to its core mission, and yours came out in the bottom layer.
Given that you were basically a corporate shill — that is, your job consisted in cheerleading your organization to the public, so that more and more people would show up for free stuff and cost the taxpayer more and more money, I’d hazard they made a wise decision. It’s one thing to spend money on resources people need, and quite another to encourage marginal users to make use of taxpayer money that could be used for other necessary things.
Trust me, if they need your service enough, they’ll find you. Not only was your job supernumerary, but any TikTok “influencer” could have done it, perhaps better than you did,
This is exactly what I voted for