Trump's Approval Rating would be +4 without the over 70s.
(thenationalpulse.com)https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/04/23/ok-boomer-trump-would-have-4-approval-rating-without-the-over-70s-why/Removing voters aged 70 and older from the latest RealClear survey shifts Trump’s net approval from 0 to +3.7.
The 70+ group—consisting of early Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation—registered the only net disapproval of Trump at -14.
This age bracket remains the primary consumer base for corporate media and is economically tied to government systems.
Trump’s approval deficit is confined to a generation with both informational and financial incentives to reject systemic change.
This demographic is disproportionately reliant on legacy broadcast and print media for their news–a part of an outdated “outrage cycle” that has perpetuated falsehoods about President Trump for over a decade now.
Television networks and print outlets remain the Baby Boomer generation’s dominant sources of information, exposing them to consistently negative portrayals of Trump, his cabinet, and his policies. This generation also consistently elected politicians such as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Hussein Obama. They backed the Iraq War, were largely culpable in the 2008 financial crisis, and were the first to panic in the early days of COVID, per public polling on the subjects.
In recent years, the “Ok, boomer” meme has sought to reflect how this particular generation finds itself uniquely at odds, politically as well as culturally, with the generations that came after it.
