Any Americans on here? What is the feeling in America regarding trump?

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I've only seen one person talking out against him regarding Greenland. I know this can't be representative to reality. But I wonder what the media is controlling

What's going on in America?

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I read on CNN that a poll showed that 90% of Americans (including Republicans) are against this whole Greenland palaver.

This thread has regular American posters. It's very anti-trump.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5472639-who-are-they-kidding-its-oil-oil-oil-baby-trump-thread-152?page=24&reply=149932381

I grew up in the UK but have lived in the US for about twenty years. We are terrified, horrified, heart broken.
The murder of Renee Good, masked ICE agents grabbing people off the streets, the dismantling of vaccine programs, of universities, Venezuela (removing someone who was a dictator doesn't make it right to abandon all the rules), Greenland threats. It feels unbelievable and waking up each day like waking into a nightmare.

I'm British and living in the US too and completely agree with this, as does everyone I know. However, we're in a blue state and I assume there are Republicans that still support him. I don't get it.

The same here, @Florajane. I live in a strongly blue state and, to be frank, live in a neighborhood and city where everyone I come into contact with shares these sentiments. Yet, when I drive out into the counties right in the south of our state, I see the Trump signs still. And it is beyond my comprehension. I don't get it either. I don't get when will be ENOUGH to make those who supported him come to their senses. I just don't understand.

I’ve been here 12 years. I asked my husband how much worse it needs to get before we consider leaving. He just stares at me blankly.

It’s completely fucked and the goal of keeping a populace on edge, is working. If we don’t know what’s coming next, and face an unstable future, they think we’re less likely to mobilise and fight back. Not that most of us would do that as we aren’t going out looking to be shot. It’s very disheartening to be this powerless.

my ‘friends’ who voted for him are suddenly very quiet. Some of them I won’t ever associate with again. Not to mention they’re immigrants themselves.

I really feel for the decent and rational people in America right now. It must be terrifying waking up to the next disaster that has Trumps name all over it.

About 17% of Americans approve of the U.S. efforts to acquire Greenland in the context of current political debate — according to a 2026 Reuters/Ipsos national poll.

A CNN/SSRS poll found about 25% of Americans favor the U.S. attempting to take control of Greenland

Older polls (from 2025) showed somewhat higher support — around 28–31% in favor of seeking ownership of Greenland

I think that Brits living in the US are less likely to be Trump supporters, so it will be interesting to hear from Americans who continue support him today.

There are like 340 million Americans in the US so a few opinions on MN isn’t going to be accurate. If CNN has a poll to say one thing Fox has a poll to say another:

The average American probably goes about their day and worries more about how the don’t have medical insurance and can’t find a job.

Whether we understand or agree a lot of Americans live Trump and a lot loathe him - but that has always been true.

We need to start boycotting some big US companies.

PSA: This website has lists of alternative UK/EU goods

https://www.bankrupttrump.org

Most people I know are furious with the man and think we are entering a fascist phase that may destroy our democracy. However, there are plenty of people who love our leader and want more of what you are seeing on the news.

We are a massively divided country at the moment.

I think the good people outweigh the bad, but it is hard to know for certain.

American grandmother here..I shudder every day to see what Trump has done or said. It is a total nightmare. My husband and grown children and even my 14 and under grandchildren feel the same way. There are those Americans who still think Trump can do no wrong and they can't be swayed. They often carry grudges thru life and Trump addresses almost all those grudges and feelings of ill will. The rest of Americans are horrified at what he is doing to our nation, our allies, and the world.

25-30% support for him still sounds high, but it could be worse. i feel for the ordinary person 😰

Are the politicians speaking out? What's the media message like (they often control the narrative)?

I'm surprised to have seen so few high profile people speaking out (living in a different country, they're often the voices that end up being heard in foreign media)

I could have written exactly the same post as you. I live in a blue state and 90% of everybody I see and talk to is horrified. There are the other 10% of course. Usually driving past at speed in a pick-up truck.

I think we mostly all see our own algorithms these days. Mine is full of Democrats speaking out, which often seems to be fundraising drives… although that’s far from enough. Videos from protesters and people on the ground documenting the atrocities. I see the historians and journalists I’ve signed up to and the news stations do report on it.

I’d love to know what the pro-Trump people are seeing on their timelines though. They completely deny every single thing that seems to be in front of their noses.

The biggest problem is that Trump (and his backers) don’t care what anybody else says or does and just ride roughshod over laws. He’s just doing it anyway. And it does seem that nobody is stopping him. We’re just walking straight into it.

But in my daily life, my job, and if I walk into a store, nearly everybody I speak to is as horrified as I am. I do live in a blue state, however. And a blue bubble within that blue state.

One of the things I’m finding quite upsetting is just how many people are pro Trump on Mumsnet though. I just feel such a visceral disgust.

Yes, it’s impossible to even have a sensible conversation with them. I do wonder, though, whether a few military Republicans might be swayed. I’ve seen a few vets speak out, disgusted by what they’re seeing on the streets of Minneapolis. So perhaps…

The support figures I posted earlier were only in relation to Greenland. If you look at support for Trump in general, the figures are much higher, 40%.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-approval-ratings-second-term-poll-b2901563.html

It’s crazy that there isn’t a real “opposition” leader in the us, to try and call him out with some sense of authority. Obama seems v quiet but I guess he is retired. The whole set up is too divisive imho

I really think here it is time for Denmark to step down here and seek Greenland for the sake of the greater geopolitical picture in a world where power counts. If Trump is determined to get Greenland and all the signals point that way then in reality he will get it. We in the UK are poised to suffer some economic harm as tariffs are placed on us and we have to ask for UK citizens is getting involved in this colonial power play over an arctic land mass really in our best jnterests? Surely our best interest lies in ensuring the US remains a steadfast economic and military ally by acquiesing on this issue although it is painful.

In reality we are just setting up ourselves for humiliation as Europeans by potentially watching US troops land in Greenland, bloodlesly taking the taking the Island, and have to face the fact that the US is still the backbone of western security so NATO will stand and we go back to the status quo.

Why if you’ve said you’ll take Greenland by force, would you then use sanctions oa your allies when they put boots on the ground to defend Greenland?

its not down to Denmark to hand over another country, Greenland has a population to consider

usa had bases on Greenland and walked away, they’ve been offered the minerals but haven’t taken up the offer

I listened last year, live, to ‘an old, no talent, leather skinned’ (paraphrasing) American musician discussing Trump for a few minutes.
It was the first time I saw his concert interrupted for his political views, and it was clear how heartbreaking he was finding the state of the USA under Trump. He said he’d sang for decades about the good/bad of America but now was a different and scary time - he repeated ‘this is happening now’ about various issues. He said he believed still there is more of the good of America and its citizens.
This was last June, and I found it quite powerful, nearly 40k silently listening even though that was in the U.K. and not the US.
I don’t generally see this larger scale and clear speaking out though, even from the Democrats, not in a way that cuts through at least. But I wondered if that’s just as I don’t live there. I see a fair few here, politicians, agitators, celebrities lately, both speaking out and the opposite speaking out so I guess that is possibly happening but outside my radar?
The polarities here are startling- and upsetting- but not sure this is as evident overtly in the US as in on the streets (barring certain states due to events) tv, news, social media? but as a PP said, a country divided is a country never going to cause serious issue for the government- an old Syrian friend told me a country of folk worrying enough about their next meal is never going to revolt - same principle, very distressing to see it so applied.
I hope everyone realises I went to see Springsteen - the absolute boss - and he is not talentless, and his skin and the whole of him was much more appealing to watch than the orange blob!

Really? You think he will stop once he’s got Greenland? It will be Canada next then Cuba… and then where? He’s a nasty bully and I think Denmark and the rest of the world must stand up to him. He’s so unpredictable with everything including tariffs that you can’t trust a word he says.