Despite brief post-election bounce, Trump has struggled throughout term to get majority approval from Black voters
Donald Trump appears to have lost of goodwill he had among Black voters during the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a new poll.
Among African-Americans, 71.5 percent disapprove of Trump’s presidency so far, while just 24.1 percent approve, according to a Decision Desk HQ average of polls current through July 7.
The president hasn’t gotten majority approval from Black voters since the end of his first week back in office, according to the aggregator, but the latest numbers represent a notable increase in discontent, after Trump had a 63.7 percent average disapproval rating among the voting demographic in mid-June.
Black people… Like what the fuck? Trump is like a caricature of a plantation owner. How does he even have 30% approval among block people
One underestimates the power and scope of right-wing propaganda, and especially how it taps into machismo idolization, sadly.
There is nothing manly about that sad sack of bones and lard.
russian dark money can buy a ton of surprisingly effective propaganda
Obvious lies only work on idiots. All you need is a quick glance to know he’s not a paragon of masculinity.
Absolutely. There are just too many idiots though
He’s also the caricature of the dumb micromanaging boss that rips off his workers, but that’s not a deal-breaker for white folks either; in fact, the majority apparently approve.
Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.
Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.
I’m having a thought. It’s easy to write them off as stupid, and they may be, but there’s also like… If they have really bad information, the decisions they make given that info as true make more sense. If you really believed that Harris was eating babies, or “she’s a communist that’s going to put the christians in a labor camp”, it would make sense to vote for the “lesser” evil.
Just need to figure out why they believe such falsehoods. it’s probably fox news et al.
In my opinion, stupid is an aggravated form of ignorant; it’s an aggressive, proud refusal to change one’s mind despite having the clear contradictions in their beliefs presented to them.
They believe the falsehoods because it benefits them to do so. Importantly, all of their friends believe it too, so if they stop then they’ll lose their support and social network. It’s the same kind of thought control techniques that cults exploit.
My theory? Polls were wrong and the election was rigged. They’re manufacturing consent.
The more likely theory is that the billions of dollars spent on propaganda actually worked. Marketing is far more effective than you’d think it should be… The average person is ridiculously gullible.
It should be pointed out that (according to exit polls) 80% of Black voters voted for Harris. I’ve heard so many people blaming them for Trump, but they’re not the problem here.
It was sadly Latinos who voted more for him this time. Maybe some Asian groups too.
Of course not, black was the most pro-Harris demographic. Hispanics were a toss-up, which was the headscratcher
Misinformation in group chats and latino men’s love of machismo
I think they also were hit hardest by the thinking that he didn’t do the things he was stopped from doing in his first term. He was bad for immigrants in his first term, but American Latinos, being Americans often have a desire to shut the door behind them and blame all the new immigrants for their problems just like the English, Germans, Irish, and Italians before them. So yeah they thought “surely not me, I wasn’t hit last time.”
