Democrats and the media have spent the past week obsessing over the so-called Signal-gate "scandal," in which an anti-Trump journalist was mistakenly invited to an encrypted online group chat using the Signal mobile app with senior Trump administration officials to discuss impending military strikes against Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

Despite the outsized media attention and negative narratives from Democrats, a major poll suggests that the Signal-gate story has failed to have any noticeable impact on President Donald Trump's approval rating, which remains at 50%, Breitbart reported.

Trump's approval rating held steady even though roughly two-thirds of Americans have heard about the supposed Signal scandal, three-fourths think it is a "serious" matter, and roughly the same percentage believe it is "not appropriate" for senior officials to discuss military operations on the Signal messaging app.

Trump's approval sits at 50%

CBS News surveyed 2,609 U.S. adults between March 27-28 and, with a 2.3 point margin of error, found that views of President Trump's job performance were evenly split at 50% approval and disapproval.

The pollsters discovered that Trump's numbers were slightly negative when it comes to his handling of the nation's economy and inflation thus far, but that they were balanced out by the positive support he has received for his immigration policies and efforts to deport illegal aliens.

It was also realized that, while Americans are generally disapproving of Trump's tariffs and trade policies and the impact they may have on prices, much of the blame for persistent price inflation still goes to his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and many Americans have adopted a wait-and-see attitude toward the long-term impact of Trump's economic policies.

That 50-50 score for Trump's approval rating is just slightly better than his national average, according to RealClearPolling, which has the president just barely underwater in negative territory by -1.3 points, with an average approval of 48.1% compared to 49.4% disapproval.

The public's thoughts on the Signal app story

The legacy and left-wing media have been hammering President Trump's administration for more than a week now over the Signal-gate story, in which a Trump-hating leftist journalist, who lurked and later published what he quietly observed, was inexplicably invited to a group chat with senior Cabinet officials on the encrypted Signal app to discuss imminent airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen who'd been attacking commercial ships and U.S. military vessels traversing the Red Sea.

According to the CBS News poll, approximately 67% of Americans have heard or read "a lot" or "some" of the media reports about the alleged scandal, with a combined 33% saying they had heard or read "not much" or "nothing at all" about the admitted mistake.

A collective 75% said the matter was "very" or "somewhat" serious, and a similar 76% suggested that it was "not appropriate" for senior administration officials to use the Signal app to discuss imminent or ongoing military operations.

Alleged scandal not negatively impacting Trump's approval

Yet, regardless of the incessant negativity from Democrats and the media about the story and the overt attempt to link that negativity to Trump, the president seems to have dodged the impact of the story in terms of his approval rating.

Indeed, CBS News reported, "On the matter of Trump administration officials discussing U.S. military plans on the Signal messaging app, most Americans, including most Republicans, say the matter is serious. And most don't think it was appropriate to use the app to discuss military plans."

"So far, this situation isn't adversely affecting Republicans in their overall evaluation of Mr. Trump," the outlet acknowledged. "An overwhelming majority of Republicans who describe what happened as very or somewhat serious still approve of him. Four in 10 Republicans do say what happened was appropriate."

To be sure, Democrats and the media will likely continue to focus intently on the Signal app story, and while future polls of the American public may say differently, the CBS News poll's results would seem to suggest that the anti-Trump story has largely failed to gain sufficient traction among the electorate.