A Reuters/Ipsos poll has recorded Donald Trump's approval rating at 32 percent, the lowest point of his presidency, as Americans contend with the grinding weight of inflation and rising everyday costs. Approval ratings are rarely sudden — they are the accumulated residue of lived experience, and what this number reflects is a nation doing difficult arithmetic at kitchen tables and checkout lines. When the cost of ordinary life outpaces the sense that leadership is responding, the distance between a president and the public quietly widens.