Trump was expecting not to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Thank God things worked out the way they did. If the Nobel Committee had lost their minds like so many Americans have lost theirs, it would have been a truly black day for both America and the world. Instead, on a day when Trump is already somewhat glum, he gets hit in the head with a brand new poll that puts his disapproval rating at 56%. That is an amazingly bad figure. And recognize that it comes also on the same day when Trump plans to eliminate SNAP for destitute Americans — who will blame him, as president, and not the Democrats. The following is a press release from Lincoln Project.
October 10, 2025 — The cracks are starting to show in the MAGA coalition as Dear Leader Trump’s grip starts to weaken. His poll numbers are crumbling and his normally obedient dogs in Congress are starting to get scared about keeping their jobs next year.
Trump was underwater before he started this disastrous shutdown. Today, the Economist tracker has him at 56% disapproval and -16% headed into a critical election year. The economic numbers aren’t any better. Consumer sentiment is at its lowest in over a decade while his trade war is kicking up inflation,
And now some members of Congress – and a Governor – are starting to squeak their tiny voices while Nero/Trump fusses. At first glance it may not seem like much, but given the stranglehold Trump has on the MAGA cult, it’s worth noting:
Marjorie Taylor Greene sees the writing on the wall. She knows they need to vote on the discharge petition, knows the Obamacare subsidies battle is a loser for Republicans, Pretty damning stuff. When you lose MTG, you create a permission structure for bailing on Trump.
Congressman Swalwell said Republican Congressmen are telling him that 100 GOP members could vote to open the Epstein files in defiance of Johnson and Trump.
Johnson is throwing to the Senate on the shutdown like it’s the Holy Hand Grenade. He’s putting it on Thune and keeping the House out of town so they can’t vote on Epstein. Thune’s response was to float breaking with the strategy of holding on until democrats wilt. This is not sounding like a bunch that are working from the same page.
Now we are seeing Senate Republicans are starting to push back on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. They are growing uneasy with the situation and are starting to wake up to the democratic implications to the situation.
Ted Cruz of all people is starting to get vocal. He’s upset that Trump’s FCC tried to censor Kimmel. Trump insulted his wife and father, but this is what gets him going.
Finally, Oklahoma Governor Stitt was critical of sending the National Guard to Illinois. This is the first time a GOP governor has said anything negative about the approach.
The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy.
That is one hell of a negative poll. And next week more new polls will come. Trump might want to rethink his food stamps gambit. Yes, he can blame the Democrats up one side and down the other. But we’re out of power. We don’t hold the House, Senate, or White House, so saying “The Democrats made me do it” is going to come across as exceptionally lame.
And the real backfire from this will be MAGAs on food stamps who believe their saviour is omnipotent. They will expect Trump to save them no matter what the Democrats are doing. What is Trump going to say to them?
This is going to be a shitshow for all time. I frankly think that somebody will pull Trump’s SNAP plan before it’s implemented, simply because there are so many MAGAs in poor red states who will be put in the position of starving to death. Yes, people in blue urban areas will be hit but that trade off does not justify all the poor rural folks who subsist on SNAP. It’s a terrible idea. And maybe this polling figure will convince Trump os that. We can only devoutly wish that it will.
Let them eat cat. Start with the hairless. You don’t have to endure the smell of burning car fur. I hear from the VP, an ivory league graduate, it’s a common practice in Ohio.