{"id":1053552,"date":"2025-06-13T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053552"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T20:10:56","slug":"polling-americans-disapprove-of-donald-trumps-dangerous-abuses-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/polling-americans-disapprove-of-donald-trumps-dangerous-abuses-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"POLLING: Americans Disapprove of Donald Trump\u2019s Dangerous Abuses of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The American people are horrified by Donald Trump\u2019s dangerous abuses of power and immigration agenda that\u2019s stoking fear, profiling Black and Brown communities, ripping families apart, and sowing violence. After Trump\u2019s administration assaulted sitting U.S. Senator Alex Padilla and deployed troops to suppress those he views as political opponents, his approvals are tanking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the bottom line: Trump is out of control, and the American people widely oppose the chaos he\u2019s inciting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donald Trump\u2019s approval ratings sharply dropped this week, after he deployed federal law enforcement and troops to California:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump\u2019s net approval rating is -5.3%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natesilver.net\/p\/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin\">declining<\/a> sharply from the beginning of the week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gelliottmorris.com\/p\/all-the-polls-on-the-la-protests\">50%<\/a> of Americans disapprove of Trump\u2019s response to the LA protests\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net\/documents\/econtoplines_jXkGqJ1.pdf\">82%<\/a> of Americans believe the government is making mistakes in who they are deporting\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/survey-results\/daily\/2025\/06\/09\/babdf\/4\">56%<\/a> believe state and local authorities should lead the response to the protests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YESTERDAY: In an unprecedented move, federal law enforcement forcibly removed Senator Alex Padilla during a press briefing for asking questions about Donald Trump and Kristi Noem\u2019s abuse of power.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/meredithllee\/status\/1933224681957388587\">Meredith Lee Hill, Politico<\/a>: <strong>\u201c\u2018I\u2019m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary.\u2019&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cFBI agent and others proceed to drag him out of the room\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/samstein\/status\/1933230411468947643?s=46\">Sam Stein, The Bulwark<\/a>: <strong>\u201c[T]his is from Padilla\u2019s staff, it\u2019s of them cuffing the Senator out in the hall\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bresreports\/status\/1933223617992462373?s=46&amp;t=xm-twpB0gxygAStckNc2bA\">John Bresnahan, Punchbowl<\/a>: <strong>\u201cNever seen a US senator treated like this.<\/strong> Wow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, he interrupted Noem\u2019s presser but that\u2019s a US senator\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump bypassed the authority of a sitting governor \u2014 the first time in about 60 years that a president has done so \u2014 and deployed the Marines and National Guard troops to suppress protests in California.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/06\/08\/trump-national-guard-la-protests-law\/\">Washington Post<\/a>:<strong> \u201cPresident Donald Trump\u2019s order to deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles appears unprecedented, relying on an unorthodox use of a law aimed at quelling serious domestic unrest or an attack on the United States by a foreign power, some legal experts said Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt marks the first time in about 60 years that an American president has taken such action without a governor\u2019s consent<\/strong>. Furthermore, his executive order authorizes the Pentagon to dispatch military personnel domestically to enable federal functions and protect government property \u2014 <strong>a chilling sign, the experts said, that Trump is prepared to send troops into other cities in response to protests.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trumps-deployment-troops-la-prompts-host-legal-questions\/story?id=122692795\">ABC News<\/a>:<strong> \u201cRemarkable images are emerging of Marines training and National Guardsmen armed with rifles accompanying ICE agents on raids in Los Angeles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a scene President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say can be replicated in any other American city where there are protests against the administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/09\/gavin-newsom-trump-is-unhinged-speaking-like-an-authoritarian-00394617\">Politico<\/a>: \u201cCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom said Donald Trump\u2019s threats against him and other Democrats following <strong>the president\u2019s unilateral deployment of National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area carried all the markings of authoritarianism. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cTrump and his border czar have targeted Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass by name with threats of arrests<\/strong> \u2014 and other ominous unspecified acts to be carried out by the federal government if the two don\u2019t fall in line. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCalifornia on Monday sued the Trump administration for authorizing the deployment against their will. The president and aides portrayed the move as just the start of potentially escalated action, including sending hundreds of U.S. Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American people are horrified by Donald Trump\u2019s dangerous abuses of power and immigration agenda that\u2019s stoking fear, profiling Black and Brown communities, ripping families apart, and sowing violence. After Trump\u2019s administration assaulted sitting U.S. Senator Alex Padilla and deployed troops to suppress those he views as political opponents, his approvals are tanking.&nbsp; Here\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>POLLING: Americans Disapprove of Donald Trump\u2019s Dangerous Abuses of Power - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/polling-americans-disapprove-of-donald-trumps-dangerous-abuses-of-power\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-13T20:10:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-13T20:10:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/polling-americans-disapprove-of-donald-trumps-dangerous-abuses-of-power\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/polling-americans-disapprove-of-donald-trumps-dangerous-abuses-of-power\/\",\"name\":\"POLLING: Americans Disapprove of Donald Trump\u2019s Dangerous Abuses of Power - 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