The tide is turning on Trump

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1. CNN now, poll shows majority of Americans disapprove of Trump.

1. Commentator stated that Trump spoke about his several conversations with Putin and alarm bells ring, because Trump is parroting what Putin says. No independent thoughts?

1. He comes over as having memory problems. He forgets what he said earlier.

1. He needs help running press conferences and appears unable to manage without support.

Is he ill?

It's very odd.

"Is there any mechanism in the US for ousting an unpopular president?"

Not for being unpopular. They did try shooting him before he even started.

He is doing a good job back home and I just wish he'd stayed there and concentrated on that.

It does make sense to stop supporting every other country financially so I can't resent that. Their level of debt is insane,

But the way he's supporting Putin's invasion is concerning. I'm wondering if we will see US troops fighting alongside Russian and then splitting the Ukraine between them.

There's an awful lot of hate being directed at the Ukraine for not surrendering as though they are holding out just to inconvenience the US.

Oh dear God...

I think the problem is Trump is not dissimilar to around 50% of American men I've met when over there- Aggressive, bullshitter, childish , money obsessed and often not very bright . Therefore he has a natural fanbase . There are plenty of liberal educated too - but not enough of them spread out all over!!

I've just been reading the comments on the Daily Mail article about his recent antics. Usually, mail readers are very pro-Trump. However, nearly every single comment is against him now. Even some Americans saying they're ashamed they voted for him. He's rapidly losing allies and support.

I just don't think Brits go for really aggressive arse holes with no class'in charge' - there's something really crude and mafia like about him and Vance that won't appeal to the majority of even Mail or Farage fans.

I mean I really think Boris J is a first rate knob but he isn't aggressive and would have had way more manners.

We've got 4 years of this; unless the republican party turns on him, opinion polls won't bother him, he can't (as it stands) run again, and they may worry Vance more. Just have to hope the Democrats don't pick another woman for 20 years, as I think the electorate is too misogynistic to allow it and I think the Republicans are too great a wish. NB, I've no problem with female PMs etc, I just recognise the two times Trump won were against women who were way better qualified.

The mechanism to get rid is called the Second Amendment to the US constitution. It gives rights to bear arms to everyone to maintain a free state in case the militia (ie government) no longer protects the will of the people.

helped my genuine anxiety a bit.

If you're talking about him "forgetting" he said Zelensky was a dictator, that was a bad joke.

I don't think he forgets things, I think he's very easily influenced and he judges people based on their money not anything else.

Yes - a presidential election in three and a half years time

Love that optimism!

The USA as a democracy is over.

Amazing the number of democrats supporters who think democracy is over because they don’t like the fact they lost an election and on this thread suggesting assassinating a democratically elected president is somehow legitimate response.

as for polling being unbiased….

Yes it's definitely shifting against him from talking to friends in the US and my social media.

Obviously he has his hardcore loonies but many republicans were appalled and embarrassed by the Whitehouse debacle, they don't want a lapdog to Putin. Also the doge cuts are starting to hit home and the penny is dropping.

People are saying democracy in the US is over (which is premature but might well prove true) is they either don't believe the US will have another free and fair election or, if it does, that Trump wouldn't respect the results if he loses (and this time, would not leave office).

Every single opinion poll has some inherent bias but the CNN ones have proven very accurate in the past, including showing Trump as the likely 2024 winner.

Yet they don’t seem prepared to respect the results of the last one….

The presidential oath of office he took at his inauguration includes the words

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

He has broken that oath. The presidential oath of office means nothing any more.

If we could get rid of duly elected leaders because they were unpopular post election we wouldn’t still have Kier Starmer. But that is not how elections work.

If anyone if genuinely calling for Trump's assassination, that is of course undemocratic. I suspect that is not the case, though, and posters are giving a trite response to the OP's question.

Also, there's a difference between random people (probably not even American citizens) not respecting democracy versus a president not doing so.

Another reminder, if it were needed, not to send your children to either the School of Hard Knocks or the University of Life.

Give it time. When Americans continue to live and die in poverty, and suffer because they cannot afford medical treatment, and the cost of living increases while pay and job opportunity stays low, and the fingers of blame turn to point at the poorest and weakest of society because there are no immigrants or wars to blame it on anymore, they might finally wake up and realise how fucking corrupt their country is. The rich will get richer while the poor keep suffering.

I think a lot of people are skeptical of what he's doing with Russia, even if they agree the situation with the Ukraine is unsustainable, or that they shouldn't be involved.

But it could change easily if the situation changes.

I've voted YABU because the dickhead has only just started a four year term. It's a bit late for the tide turning whatever your opinion.

It doesn't matter if he is unpopular.. technically he can't run again, but you also can't try and overturn an election and expect to be made president again but he did.

He will just make as much money for himself as he can, living rent free at the expense off the taxpayer over the next 4 years, then at the next election we will really see democracy is dead in the US.

I think he's pretty popular with the Average Joe in the flyover states. I see a full term of Trump ahead, scarily.

We have that here and nothing changes.