CNN admits Trump's approval rating has gone up during the government shutdown

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Harris Rigby

Oct 21, 2025

The whole "No Kings" and "Trump is a dictator" line isn't working. And Americans aren't buying that the shutdown is his fault.

His net approval rating is actually up a point in terms of his popular support. So the bottom line is this; the first shutdown during Trump's first term, 2018-19, was hurting Donald Trump, this one is not hurting him at all.

There's no reason why Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, I wanna get out of this shutdown.

Let's see what attack angle the Democrats come up with next!


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