U.S. voters approve of Trump far more than the American people do.

10 January 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

shows all polls of Americans’ approval-ratings of Trump as the President; and one fact stands out starkly from it:

The 25 most recent polls, which were taken during 10 December 2025 till 8 January 2026, included the following, which were of “Americans”:

POLLSTER, DATE, # RESPONDENTS, % APPROVE, % DISAPPROVE, SPREAD (NET APPROVAL %):

CBS News

1/5 – 1/72325 A4159

Spread

-18

Reuters/Ipsos

1/4 – 1/51248 A4256

Spread

-14

CBS News

12/17 – 12/192300 A4159

Spread

-18

Atlas Intel

12/15 – 12/192315 A3960

Spread

-21

Reuters/Ipsos

12/12 – 12/141016 A3959

Spread

-20

The “Spread” (net approval percentages) for those five polls were: -18, -14, 18, -21, and -20 = -18% Approval for the whole lot of them.

The other 20, all of which sampled ONLY “RV”= Registered Voters, or “LV”= Likely Votes, were:

RMG Research**

1/5 – 1/82000 RV4751

Spread

-4

Rasmussen Reports

1/4 – 1/81500 LV4554

Spread

-9

Economist/YouGov

1/2 – 1/51389 RV4355

Spread

-12

Morning Consult

1/2 – 1/42201 RV4651

Spread

-5

Economist/YouGov

12/26 – 12/291420 RV4255

Spread

-13

Big Data Poll

12/26 – 12/283412 LV4750

Spread

-3

Trafalgar Group

12/26 – 12/271098 LV5045

Spread

+5

Economist/YouGov

12/20 – 12/221425 RV4256

Spread

-14

Daily Mail

12/20 – 12/211000 RV4852

Spread

-4

Morning Consult

12/19 – 12/212203 RV4552

Spread

-7

InsiderAdvantage

12/19 – 12/20800 LV5041

Spread

+9

Quantus Insights

12/15 – 12/161000 RV4453

Spread

-9

Emerson

12/14 – 12/151000 RV4150

Spread

-9

RMG Research**

12/10 – 12/183000 RV5049

Spread

+1

FOX News

12/12 – 12/151001 RV4456

Spread

-12

Economist/YouGov

12/12 – 12/151453 RV4355

Spread

-12

Morning Consult

12/12 – 12/152201 RV4652

Spread

-6

Quinnipiac

12/11 – 12/151035 RV4054

Spread

-14

Susquehanna

12/9 – 12/17800 LV3856

Spread

-18

Big Data Poll

12/10 – 12/123004 RV4750

Spread

-3

Those 20 totaled to -169%, so that their group average was -8% per poll.

And, if one looks farther back than December 10th, that difference between -18% for “A”, versus -8% for “RV” and for “LV”, is typical.

In other words: U.S. voters approve of Trump far more than the American people do.

In other words: Americans who don’t vote are far more anti-Trump than are Americans who do vote, but both groups are anti-Trump.

In other words: If the billionaires who control the Democratic Party really DO want to defeat Trump or the Republican nominee in 2028, then these billionaires will need to allow their Party to nominate to run against that person someone who will attract LOTS of NON-voting Americans to the polls in that election. There is no other way that it can be done. Those non-voters — around 40% of the U.S. voting-age population — are so turned-off to BOTH Parties, so that ONLY by turning them ON to those billionaires’ 2028 nominee, AS the Democratic Party’s nominee, can the Democratic Party retake the White House, if they want to do that (which I doubt that they will). And, if they won’t, then — regardless of whom the Republican Party’s billionaires will choose to be their Party’s nominee — the next U.S. President will be basically a clone of Trump (who gives U.S. billionaires a lot to support).

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.