Despite the success of Operation Maduro, the return to triumphalist imperialism and the determination to return to the United States a supposed previous greatness based on brute force, Donald Trump This Tuesday he celebrated his first year in the White House in the midst of a significant popularity crisis.
The average American doesn’t care about Greenland, but about inflation. He doesn’t understand tariffs, but rather jobs. He does not take a dim view of a reduction in illegal immigration, but he distrusts the ways of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to the weighted average of surveys carried out Nate Silverthe creator of the prestigious FiveThirtyEight portal, 55% of Americans disapprove of the president’s management.
A year ago, that number was at 40%.
For their part, the 42% of citizens who do support Trump’s actions is the lowest figure since November, in the midst of the scandal over his involvement in Epstein’s papers. When he was sworn into office, his approval rating was at 57.4%.
It is not unusual for presidents to lose popularity as their term progresses, especially if it is their second, although in this case it is not consecutive. Even so, the truth is that these rejection numbers have only been had by him during his first time in the White House.
Not even Joe Bidenthe other president to exceed 50% disapproval after his first year in office, reached those figures. All this, despite the fact that the president does not stop repeating that his Administration is the best in history and that everyone is delighted with him, both inside and outside the United States.
Jeffrey Epstein, accused of trafficking and sexual abuse of minors, and Donald Trump, before becoming US President.
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Obviously, that’s not the case. Trump came to the White House with a hate speech, but he has taken it to such an extreme that it gives the impression that the country is dangerously close to an autocracy.
In a nation tremendously divided for years, Trump has publicly declared that his political rival is an enemy, he has seriously insulted senior officials of the Democratic Party, he has placed the photo of an automatic signature pen where that of his predecessor, Joe Biden, was, and he has spent an entire year humiliating his contender in the 2020 elections, despite his age (83 years) and his delicate state of health.
He has not stopped there: he has used the governing bodies to place his personal supporters, people who would never refute any of his orders. He has even played as he pleases with the National Guard, which he has deployed in several cities – all with Democratic mayors – appealing to false data just to demonstrate to the governors in power that he is the one in charge.
Following the murder of Charlie Kirkaccused the Democratic Party of being part of the “radical left” and threatened the possible outlawing of certain organizations that simply criticize his management.
The two strong points of his campaign – apart from the cultural affirmation against what wokewhich has also served as an excuse for dubiously constitutional measures—were the economy and the fight against immigration.
Regarding the first, the average citizen still does not feel that things are better than a year ago. Inflation grew in 2025 to 2.6%, just three tenths below what it had grown in 2024.
Its efforts to cut public spending have been erratic: the DOGE, led at the time by Elon Muskhas dedicated itself to closing agencies and laying off workers without clear criteria.
In addition, the fight with the Democrats to approve their spending path caused the federal government to remain closed for more than a month, something unprecedented in the modern history of the United States. All this while the president faced gigantic expenses on renovations to the White House or on offers to Denmark to buy Greenland.
One of the ICE raids in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Not even immigration is serving as an asset for his popularity. Despite the tremendous decrease in the entry of illegal immigrants, 53.3% of Americans are against its policy of persecuting foreigners and much of the blame lies with the excesses of ICE.
In practice, border and customs agents are acting like thugs who arbitrarily harass “suspects” who always happen to be black or Latino. That affects communities greatly and even the most recalcitrant MAGAs have trouble defending it.
In addition, there are the illegal detentions, the deportations to prisons in El Salvador even of citizens with US nationality and, of course, the recent murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis while trying to flee from a patrol car and without further provocation.
A murder that, this same Tuesday, Trump continued trying to justify in the eternal press conference to review the legislature, taking the opportunity to take photos and photos and photos of alleged criminals settled in Minnesota, all of them foreigners and who would have crossed the border thanks to Biden.
On the verge of turning 80, his increasingly radical and disjointed speech finds no counterweights within the United States.
His is control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Supreme Court. At the head of the FBI and the CIA he has put faithful not only from the Republican Party, but from MAGA. His harassment of the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powellwhose term does not end until June, has caused Powell to have to record a video asking for help, something unprecedented in a democracy, especially considering that Trump himself appointed him in 2018.
The EU, enemy number one
Now, if all of this happens within the United States; Outside, it has been a year of chaos and humiliation. Both Trump and his vice president J.D. Vance and a good part of the collaborators of Fox News which he has placed in important foreign policy positions, share the same enemy: the European Union.
They consider Europe to be a parasite that has been taking advantage economically and militarily of the United States for decades while defending “weak” values that will destroy its culture.
It has imposed savage tariffs on Europe, ignored its leaders in negotiations with both Russia and Israel, and now threatens to take over the territory of one of its members through the military conquest of the island of Greenland.
Trump, in an AI-generated image, planting the American flag in Greenland.
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The relationship between both Atlantic powers is going through, by far, its worst moments since the Second World War, and there is no sign that things are going to change.
For this reason, in its national security document, the White House identified the European far-right parties as its true allies: they will be able to gradually withdraw their countries from the Union and submit to the North American yoke.
In the rest of the world, Trump has dedicated himself to turning the tables on Vladimir Putin already Xi Jinping while justifying all his decisions based on the alleged threats from Russia and China.
He achieved a ceasefire in Gaza, but has no way of convincing Netanyahu to move to the second phase. He has already thought about which countries and which leaders are going to be part of the Strip management team, but the fact is that Hamas is still there and the IDF is still there, both immovable.
In Iran, the ayatollahs continue to kill protesters with impunity and in Venezuela, Chavismo continues in power… although, that is true, without Nicolas Maduro.
Trump’s latest offense, which now completely lacks any filter, has been to publish on his social network, Truth, a manipulated image in which a fake map of Canada painted with stars and stripes appears, in front of the passive gaze of all European leaders.
The indignation in the neighboring country has been enormous. Nor has he refrained from humiliating Emmanuel Macron with the publication of a private message that the French president addressed to him, without us knowing very well about what. All this, in one year. Thinking that there are three more left causes real chills.