Trump Is So Cooked

President . This flip showed up in recent elections like the 2025 New Jersey and Virginia governors’ races, where the Democratic candidates won big in heavily Latino areas that had swung to Trump just one year earlier.

Young people aged 18-34 moved towards Trump in 2024 and gave him positive approval numbers at the beginning of his term, but a recent CNN poll found 80% now disapprove. Similarly, 73% of independent voters now disapprove of Trump, according to that same CNN poll.

It is not surprising that Trump is growing more and more unpopular as he has somehow brought about all of the worst problems that vexed past presidents all by himself. He has created, on his own, Joe Biden’s inflation, Jimmy Carter’s energy shock (caused by a conflict in Iran, no less) and George W. Bush’s catastrophic war of choice in the Middle East. With the downing of an American jet over Iran, he may also replicate the disaster Carter faced with an Iranian hostage crisis. And he has done it all by launching his own war of choice, after campaigning on a promise of no new wars. It is hard to imagine a worse series of political decisions.

With the midterm elections a scant seven months away, things look bleak for Republicans in November. Even if they lose only the House, that will effectively end congressional blessing for Trump’s authoritarian power grab — and, in all likelihood, condemn his final two years in office to investigation, impeachment and repudiation.