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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      Yeah it can’t be a decent population spread. Republicans that have fallen from MAGA would still point fingers at another president they didn’t like before saying a Republican was the dumbest.

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    Lincoln and JFK were smarter presidents even post-gunshot. Trump out-dumbs half a plate of cold scrambled eggs.

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    I think the apt answer is: “is he making decisions that actually make the US better?” He has made billions. He has hugely benefited his personal allies, allies that are not your allies. He did every shady thing he could do right in front of the entire population and still nothing has been done to really stop him. He gave a friend of his millions to clean a pool and they clearly were just stealing mob style and that was what we saw in plain view.

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        If this study is accurate then no. If he were, whatever percentage of the population you call dumb would then describe him as smart. Unless you only consider less than 6% of people dumb then it can’t be the case.

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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      Same here.

      Every poll depends a lot on the phrasing of the question. The question:

      xhitter poll

      As far as journalistic integrity goes, the title should’ve been “…people agree he is the dumbest…” and not believe.

      OTOH, glad to see there’s still some normal human beings on Xhitter.

      Also, what a horrible outlet

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      uBo marking all 3rd parties red has a reason; the normal Google stuff is generally marked green, for comparison. And all that before I enable javascript. Afterwards it usually gets even worse with these sites. Not doing that here though.

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      Even with that advantage, people still have a worse opinion of the Democratic Party than of Trump and the Republican Party

      Hopelessness/Despair 2028

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      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.

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      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/

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          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

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            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.

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              Raw sample size means very little when you’re wanting statistically significant information. A properly prepared poll can get a statistically representative response from as little as 100 responses as long as you’re not needing something like 1% margins.

              On the other hand, a twitter poll will self-select based on that userbase. It won’t be an representative base of the country/world… but it will give a statistically representative response for the group of users still on and actively using the MechaHitler site. MechaHitler social media users giving a 96% response like this is insane. Twitter is nearly as far from a left wing bastion as you can get, other than Truth Social.

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    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?

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      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.

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        As someone from outside the US … the abortion stuff is wild to me. It’s between the mother and doctor to me … I don’t see a point in people who aren’t knowledgeable about this process to chime in.

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          You’d surprised. We got these crazies protesting on a regular basis here in Switzerland. Sure, they got no power other than disturbing the public transportation, but they exist. Usually they need to be protected by huge police tricks.

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            oh wow, that’s interesting, are these “crazies” religious? like do they put up any religious placards or whatever?