Prediction: Trump's approval will go up after the LA protests

[edhopper]

Because a too large portion of Americans always side with the fascist State.

Wall Street looks like they are giving Trump the thumbs up today.

[Silent Type]

1. I'd bet money on it. LA didn't help migrants one bit.

[larwdem]

2. 100% true

you are so right we live in a fascist country now.

[bluedigger]

3. He's got to bottom out sometime.

I think he's got some more room to go before he does, though.

[edhopper]

4. It will be when the economy turns to shit.

No amount of corruption or fascist acts to destroy the government will affect his support.

[BlueKota]

7. I agree

Too many think nothing is more important than money. Not their country, not about religion(even if they claim to be believe in one), not their fellow citizens or friends, and in some cases not even their own family. Until those people suffer substantial financial loss, they will continue to bow to the Orange one. No matter what other horrendous things he does.

[Self Esteem]

16. And what if the economy doesn't turn to shit?

[edhopper]

22. You funny

As if there is any chance it won't under this buffoon.

[Self Esteem]

31. It didn't in his first term until COVID hit in 2020...

And if we have to wait until year four of his presidency for his approval to tank, well ... we won't be laughing.

[edhopper]

35. That is true

But he was not this proactive. Mostly he rode Obama's economy.

[Self Esteem]

38. And yet everything he has done hasn't budged the economy down even a bit.

Even inflation, which everyone said his tariffs would push up, has cooled even more since he became president.

I think people just need to operate from the perspective that the worst-case expectation isn't a guarantee.

[edhopper]

39. In his first term

Job growth was much lower than under Obama. And lower than under Biden.

[brush]

27. Nah. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom to express grievances against the governent...

all part of the First Amendment of the Constitution.

trump, Kegbreath and cosplay Barbie have sent thousands of Nat'l Guard troops and 700 ACTIVE DUTY MARINES to LA without food, water or a place to sleep. There are photos out now showing troops, who've spent hours standing in the sun and facing fellow Americans, sleeping of the floor in buildings in LA.

Typical of the incompetent trump and his clown car cabinet cabal.

These morons are ordering troops deployed and don't know what or how to do it. They're all cosplaying.

Without food, water of a place to sleep.

[unblock]

5. I don't think Wall Street gives a crap about this stuff. Yet.

Undocumented workers are mostly at private companies, the Dow, s&p, etc., are all public companies.

This drama affects real people and has major implications down the line, but for now, public company profits aren't really affected... yet.

[Jirel]

6. Doesn't matter.

Stopping a fascist authoritarian takeover is not about what polls well day to day. If the Dems want to poll better, Dem politicians will need to show they’re really fighting with the people. Anything else is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, and worrying about the popularity of icebergs in passenger polls.

[edhopper]

9. You are not wrong

[thought crime]

17. Do you think Newsom is fighting for the people? I do.

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[Wiz Imp]

8. Strongly disagree. This is not in any way gonna be a positive for Trump.

[edhopper]

10. Last polls he was at

42% to 45%. So we shall see.

[Wiz Imp]

32. This certainly would seem to contradict your theory.

Trump's actions in LA are unpopular and never going to help his approval ratings.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/06/10/50147/4

Do you approve or disapprove of deploying Marines to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement?

Approve 34%
Disapprove 47%
Not sure 19%

[edhopper]

33. Most polls show people disagreeing with what Trump does

And then he overall rating goes up. Go figure.

I would be happy if I am wrong.

[Iris]

11. Yes. Chickenshits are gonna chicken shit when the feel like someone is making them "safe"

[MaeScott]

12. Approval numbers will be manufactured to reflect this, yes

Trust no data from this administration.

[Takket]

13. I think you are right.

I’ve already seen people I know that hate drumpf a vote liberal saying LA riots are out of control. Why? The media. If 100000 people peacefully protest, and one person burns a police car, guess which event gets played on a loop over and over again?

The media time and again plays right into trump’s hands, using the exceptions and not the rule to define the entire narrative.

[thought crime]

18. "Violence" trumps violations of the Constitution.

Average people react much more strongly to looting or burning cars, than to the Mobster trampling on rights and burning the Constitution.

[Johonny]

14. Im not sure it moves one way or the other

I live in LA county and haven't watched a second of it. The whole thing is silly. This is nothing compared to the fires.

I think the legs of the Biden economy are saving him. In reality the Obama economy is the only reason he was elected. The question now is, will the economic damage finally come to roost on him, or like first term, will the shit hit the fan during the next presidents term?

[Mountainguy]

19. This

I know people in the LA area and they dont seem impacted at all.

[EnergizedLib]

15. We can't assume this riot will be politically damaging to us

The Rodney King riots didn’t cost the Democrats in 1992, and the George Floyd riots didn’t cost them in 2020.

[David__77]

20. Correct. Trump is certainly presiding over a country in relative decline.

That decline is certainly not solely or perhaps even mainly due to him specifically, as opposed to being a longer term process. Still, I can see how he would be blamed.

[Wiz Imp]

21. "Wall Street looks like they are giving Trump the thumbs up today." Not True

The Dow ended up down for the day yesterday (very slightly) and is down (very slightly) again so far today. The Stock Market has effectively not reacted at all to what is going on in LA.

[GoodRaisin]

23. Wall Street has shifted to ignoring the carnival barker.

They are no longer paying attention to Krasnov’s nonsense.

[edhopper]

24. Then they are fools

He will crash the economy.
Like ignoring W and the Housing Bubble, they will end up losing.

[GoodRaisin]

25. Investors will pay attention to real threats. They aren't paying attention

to the boy calling wolf every other day. They aren’t reacting to every tweet anymore.

[edhopper]

29. The threat is real

His actions will hurt the economy.

[GoodRaisin]

34. No disagreement with that.

[Basso8vb]

26. Nope

[louis-t]

28. "He's perteckin us!!!!"

[madinmaryland]

30. Don't forget that TACO.

[H2O Man]

36. Possibly at first.

But his negatives will, too.

[Melon]

37. Looting and vandalism overshadows the message.

Stealing shoes and televisions is what will make the news, and the American people will chear the troops for stopping it. The protest message gets lost to the image of lawlessness. That is the issue.