Posted on 04/26/2025 7:18:20 AM PDT by karpov
President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to 40 percent, lower than all other presidents at this point in their terms, new polling released by Pew Research Center on Wednesday shows. Americans want Trump to govern less by executive order, listen to the courts, and don't like tariffs.
Trump is losing ground with people on the fence. From February to April, his approval rating fell from 88 percent to 75 percent among people who supported him in the 2024 election but "not strongly," and from 44 percent to 31 percent among nonvoters.
Of course, partisans will be partisans, and Trump polls just as well with Republicans (and badly with Democrats) as you would expect. But there's also been some unexpected movement, especially when it comes to the economy and trade. The poll was conducted from April 7 to April 13, at a time when the Trump administration was frantically announcing and canceling trade tariffs.
Perhaps most worrying for the Trump camp, 49 percent of Americans overall said that his policies were making the economy weaker compared to the Biden administration. In 2021, a plurality of Americans said that President Joe Biden's policies were making the economy stronger compared to the last Trump administration.
The economic chaos from tariffs is clearly wearing on Trump's own supporters. Republican confidence in Trump's ability to "make good decisions about the economy" fell from 92 percent at inauguration to 80 percent now. A majority of Republicans still said they approved of tariffs, but Republican support was not as strong as for other policies, with 29 percent disapproving.
The polling was not all good news from a libertarian perspective, however. A majority of Americans said that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts to federal agencies were too careless
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Nice try.
Trump remains sanguine.
Psychosis in play. It is because I say it is. BlabBlabBlab.
“President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 40 percent, lower than all other presidents at this point in their terms.”………….
,,,,,,,,, The purpose of the poll before they asked or even formulated question one.
Who cares. The jackasses answering these goofyass “polls” were burning down Tesla dealerships, dragging little old ladies out of their Teslas and beating them up while setting fire to their cars and carving their Swastikas into the American people’s modes of transportation just a couple weeks ago. Screw them.
Like the polls that said Harris would win. Sure. You trolls are trying too hard. Give it a rest.
They have a few more years of this. They won’t think aw geeze this is what it felt like for them when we were in, changing the country
That’s why he did the hard part first. Patience, Grasshopper.
The Libertarians over at Reason are closer to being communists than they are to being actual Conservatives.
I don’t believe this and I doubt that the American people want him to “listen to the courts” if they want to put criminal gangs back in their neighborhoods. Rasmussen and other pollsters don’t show this, its political. Plus, Trump learned from Reagan - you do the tough things first and you will benefit when things turn up.
Any disapproval on my part comes from the lack of arrests or SOMETHING done with certain criminals, like high rankning illegals. I know that is not completely the administrations fault, though. The judges should be dealt with.
I see no effects on the economy where I am.
I haven’t really even noticed anything different since the tariffs . I assume they haven’t really taken effect yet if anything so I doubt too many people are upset
What tumbling economy?
The liberals lie.
The poll question should have been : do you want Trump to deport illegal aliens OR listen to the courts
Centrists - aka turncoats, one tiny turn of a screw less stoopid than dems - are always the first to go.
Yes. It is the illegal/court situation that many conservatives disapprove of. Heck, we want the congresscritters detained in El Salvador until they pass. Doing what the judges say is understandable, except for the HUGE national security risks the cartel/gangs impose.
Well, the price of Scotch is up...so there’s that. I’m stuck with bourbon :)
That's what I was going to say, but you said it much better than I would have.
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