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Roughly 96% of people polled by the Mirror US believe Donald Trump is the "dumbest president ever."

The survey, conducted last week, asked 15,000 people to assess President Trump's decision-making as the crucial 2026 midterm elections approach.

"'Dumb'" is such a polite word," one commented.

"I think it's pretty obvious to anyone with an IQ over 90. Even kids think he's stupid," another joked.

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[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

4% hit the wrong button on accident

[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

I want to talk about polls I think this is partially how they are rigging elections...

I got a texas based like survey and I was just, why not..

Literally when I would say i would support the other candidate other than the republican it would go into crazy talking points about Trans rights and stuff and give me an option to change my vote.

How is this not illegal?

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 1 points 3 minutes ago

I really enjoy those surveys because there's usually a fill in part at some point and I use then to express the most blasphemous opinions possible. When one survey was trying to gauge at what point abortion should be legal, I wrote in that if it's still attached to me by umbilical cord I get to crush its skull between my thighs as a conservative limit.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 2 points 36 minutes ago

The anti-intellectualism crowd thinks that it doesn’t take intelligence to run a country

[–] savvie@lemmy.zip 1 points 34 minutes ago

worst citizen of USA ever!!!

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

He'll still get 30% ready to vote for him again

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 30 minutes ago

They'll write him in.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Trump isn't even a dumb person's idea of a smart person.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Judging by by the proclamations of the maga crowd, he is precisely a dumb person's idea of a smart person.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Magats don't want a smart person. They want someone just as dumb or even dumber than they are.

The same goes for his felonies, his child rapes, his failed businesses, and his astounding corruption. They love him because of these things, not despite them. He's is the perfect representative the magat class.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

This makes sense. The president is supposed to be held to a higher standard, on a level of Overton Window reasoning, which is what this demographic mostly operates on, this means that the president is viewed to be objectively at that level by default, regardless of who they are and what they do, the position/system wouldn’t allow otherwise, this allows subjective justification of anything above that line as not only acceptable but superior morality. “If the president can rape kids then I can use the n-word!” Levels of thinking. Him setting the bar at the floor allows some people to think that their bar is really high. Him being the president, with no other factors involved, enables a false sense of morality in a certain demographic of people. He validates them as honorable, and they take that personally.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 6 points 2 hours ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago

He smart business man.
Do smart business.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 27 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

God damn it. I was hoping this would have been an actual poll with proper data on who they polled and shit but it was just a fuckass Shitter poll.

[–] starik@lemmy.today 1 points 28 minutes ago

If you thought for a second that ~85% of Trump’s MAGA cult would tell a pollster that Trump is the dumbest president ever, you… thought wrong.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Seems like a great one to me:

New Marquette Law School national survey finds Democrats expand lead on congressional ballots; Trump approval declines

The survey was conducted Sept. 2-9, 2026, interviewing 1,023 adults nationwide, with a margin of error of +/-3.3 percentage points. For registered voters, the sample size is 864, with a margin of error of +/-3.6. For likely voters, the sample size is 581, with a margin of error of +/-4.3 percentage points.

https://today.marquette.edu/2026/09/new-marquette-law-school-national-survey-finds-democrats-expand-lead-on-congressional-ballots-trump-approval-declines/

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Buddy we're talkinbg about the article linked by OP, not whatever this is.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Buddy, you need to follow the links, lol.

The survey, conducted last week, asked 15,000 people to assess President Trump's decision-making as the crucial 2026 midterm elections approach. The results coincide with other reports this week, indicating that more than half of Americans believe Trump's stewardship has ultimately hurt the economy.

When you go that link, it links to the who took the survey:

"Trump is breaking records. Yesterday, the Marquette Law School poll came out, and take a look -- Trump's worst net approval rating on inflation. Minus 61 points! That is the worst Donald Trump has ever polled on inflation, and not only is it the worst that Donald Trump has polled on inflation, but it is the worst that any president ever has polled on inflation. This is literally the worst net approval rating on inflation for any president," he said.

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/trump-ranks-worst-time-stunning-2028832

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

It's still an unrelated survey, not the one the article is about. It's better than a twitpoll, but the 15k sample size got me excited in a way a 1500 sample size doesn't.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago

How is it only 96%?

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 9 points 2 hours ago
[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 3 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Yet they still leave him unimpeached.

[–] savvie@lemmy.zip 1 points 31 minutes ago

impeached twice, not convicted each time. third time may be charmed.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Technically not true. He's been twice impeached.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Impeach means to accuse, it's analagous to indictment in criminal law.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Again, technically not true. His IS and remains an impeached president. He has been impeached twice by Congress, and that is still the case.

The senate failed to convict him.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Because the number is utterer bullshit used to get you to click and nothing else.