Donald Trump has seen opinion polls plummet to a new low after the president suffered an appalling 10 days.

Things have not been going well for Trump lately if the new opinion polls are to be believed.

The president has seen a series of setbacks, including the resignation of long-time supporter Marjorie Taylor-Greene, an ongoing scandal over calling a female journalist ‘piggy’, another record-breaking government shutdown on his watch, and ongoing economic anxiety.

And of course the grim spectre of the Epstein files is casting an increasingly long shadow over Trump’s second stint in the White House as the president’s association with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein is placed under growing scrutiny.

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten has even gone so far as to describe the last 10 days as his ‘worst 10 day period’ so far during his second presidency.

Things are not going well for Trump (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Enten said: “This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious.”

He went on to draw attention to the fact even the best poll has Trump flagging by some 14 points – a poor prospect for any president with midterms bearing down fast.

“When your best poll has you still 14 points underwater, you know it’s truly bad and it’s as bad as 26 points underwater!” said Enten. “We’re talking about an average well, well underwater with the deep blue sea swimming with the fishes!”

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Enten says there’s one key issue that’s disappointing voters: inflation and the cost of living.

When Trump was sworn in, opinion polls on this issue were at a steady plus three points.

But that has now fallen to some minus 34, with Enten describing it as ‘a 37 point move in the wrong, wrong direction’.

Why might Trump be polling poorly on inflation and the cost of living?

Polls are dropping fast for Trump (Allison Robbert/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Economic concerns are a big feature, with Trump making big promises about making groceries cheaper on the campaign trail which have yet to materialize.

Instead, recently released data showed inflation rates steadily climbing since Trump announced largescale tariffs on Liberation Day (April 2), with increased costs being passed on to customers.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation rates climbed from 2.3 percent in April to 2.7 percent in July, 2.9 percent in August and three percent in September.

From August to September, gas prices rose 4.1 percent. Meanwhile, food prices are up 3.1 percent year on year, while energy costs are up 2.8 percent, CNBC reports.

Enten predicted a poor showing for the Republicans in the midterms if Trump’s current numbers don’t improve.

“You can’t win with this! If this holds for next year’s midterm election, wave adios amigos, goodbye, see you later to that House Republican majority,” he said.

“And that Senate Republican majority? Very much in danger as well!”

The latest approval ratings of the president reveal what Americans are really thinking amid the Epstein controversy.

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have taken yet another nose dive according to a new poll, plummeting to the lowest ever since his return to power.

Earlier this month, research on 1,245 Americans between 27 and 30 October gave the POTUS an eye-watering 63 percent disapproval rating, almost close to his lowest score ever recorded by CNN which came in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot in January 2021.

Now, a Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted over four days up until Monday, suggests Americans are increasingly unhappy about the spiralling cost of living crisis and the stalling progress in the investigation on the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The results find his approval rating slumped to 38 percent, having fallen two percentage points since a Reuters/Ipsos poll in early November.

Ratings for the POTUS have plummeted (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

The poll surveyed 1,017 US adults across the country and has a margin of error of about percentage points.

Meanwhile, the new poll shows Trump’s approval rating among Republicans is even waning, down 82 percent from 86 earlier this month.

The insight comes as Trump’s Republican Party is beginning to show signs of weakness, the outlet reports, with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passing a measure just on Tuesday (November 18) to force the release of the so-called Epstein files from the hands of the Justice Department.

Trump has appeared to oppose the decision for weeks now, even falling out with one of his strongest allies in Congress, Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who insists his sudden public criticism of her comes after she pressed him on releasing the files.

However, though lawmakers could press ahead with releasing the files without his support, the White House has claimed Trump will sign the bill when it reaches his desk.

Still, the issue is clearly having an impact on voters, with just 20 percent of respondents, including 44 percent of Republicans, stating they approve how Trump has handled the Epstein case.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found 70 percent of those surveyed, including 87 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Republicans, said they think the government is hiding information about Epstein’s alleged clients.

Yet Doug Heye, a Republican political strategist, says it’s ‘all about prices.’

Those surveyed were clearly unhappy with how the Epstein case has been handled (Kypros/Getty Images)

“People are furious when they go out and spend money at the grocery store, and they can’t believe what they are spending.”

A little more than a quarter (26 percent) of Americans believe Trump is doing well at managing the cost of living, down from 29 percent earlier this month, while 65 percent of participants, including one in three Republicans, said they disapprove of Trump’s performance on tackling the issue.

President Donald Trump made an uncomfortably strange sound effect when describing his favorite McDonald’s dish in a bizarre speech.

Americans have had a long love affair with the fast food franchise, ever since the inception of its Golden Arches, carhop drive-thrus and infamous affordable hamburger meals that burst onto the scene in the 1940s.

Likewise, the POTUS is a huge fan of the restaurant chain, even popping in for a shift in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s during the 2024 presidential campaign and once even serving mountains of meals to the Clemson Tigers football team when they visited the White House in 2019 to celebrate winning the championship.

Now, in a speech at the company’s Impact Summit in Washington DC on Monday (November 17), Trump dropped a rather weird speech about his love for the food, especially one dish.

“I like the fish,” he stated bluntly, referring to the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, before making an ineligible sound effect that words can’t describe.

Trump as a presidential nominee serving fries from Pennsylvania McDonald’s in October last year (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

“I like it,” he continued before giving bosses a tip on how to improve it further.

“You could do with a little more tartar sauce, though, please,” Trump urged.

“Seriously,” he continued while making a gesture of slapping more sauce on the bun. “I hate it when I say, ‘Do you have any tartar sauce?’

“You understand? Yes, he understands that,” Trump said, pointing at a member of the audience.

Trump’s adoration for the McDonald’s signature fish sandwich is no secret, as just last month Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruters dropped the insight about Trump’s go-to order during the campaign.

“He had hot fries waiting for him from McDonald’s … And then he had a Filet-O-Fish, a Quarter Pounder, and a Big Mac, and I think he combined two of them,” Gruters said.

Meanwhile, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie’s book, Let Trump Be Trump, revealed the POTUS enjoyed a different combo back in 2016, made up of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and a chocolate milkshake to wash it all down.

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Elsewhere in the speech, Trump said he was ‘honored’ to attend the summit, declaring himself the ‘very first former McDonald’s fry cook ever to become president of the United States,’ in reference to his stint serving French fries in Pennsylvania last year.

“While other politicians fly around on campaign planes stocked with expensive catering, on Trump Force One, prior to ascending to Air Force One, which is quite a nice plane also, we served only McDonald’s almost every time,” he continued.

Trump praised the franchise for its affordability and place in the economy (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“And I even got Bobby Kennedy to eat a Big Mac,” he added in reference to his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tasked with the Make America Healthy Again initiative.

“He told me he loved it,” Trump joked. “He didn’t want that publicized.”

The president then went on to champion his apparent efforts to relax regulations, boost business and cut various taxes for the industry as per his Big Beautiful Bill that passed Congress in July, stating: “No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security for our great seniors.”

He also claimed the cost of a Thanksgiving meal in Walmart was 25 percent cheaper than last year, though FactCheck.org found this was due to fewer grocery items from alternative food brands.

Trump also applauded McDonald’s for ‘recommitting to affordable options’ and for ‘slashing prices for your most popular items [and] bringing back Extra Value Meals’.

Yet McDonald’s chief executive Christopher Kempczinski told investors last week that the number of low-income families visiting restaurants dropped by double digits amid concerns that its ‘McValue menu’ are now too expensive.