New polls conducted by American top media houses have shown that citizens, including members of the ruling party, Republican, are losing faith in President Donald Trump's administration.
The new reviews conducted by Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research, New York Times/Siena College, Fox News, said that the President scored poorly on economy and immigration as some fear he is ‘exceeding powers’ and focusing on wrong issues.
According to the survey released this week, a majority described Trump’s second term in office so far as “scary”;.
A survey found that only 24% of Americans believe Trump has focussed on the right priorities as President.
More than half of voters disapprove of Trump’s performance as President, and majority oppose his tariff policies and slashing of the federal workforce.
This review comes as the US President marks 100 days of his second stint in office next week.
It suggested that Americans are already experiencing fatigue caused by some of his policies such as the reciprocal tariffs and chilling deportations.
A poll by the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research published this weekend, found that even Republicans are not overwhelmingly convinced that Trump’s attention has been in the right place.
A narrow majority, 54% of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is focussed on the “right priorities”;, while the President’s numbers with crucial independent voters are much weaker.
Just 9% of independents said that the President is focussed on the right priorities – with 42% believing Trump is paying attention to the wrong issues.
About four in 10 people in the survey, 39%, approve of how Trump is handling the presidency overall, and only about 40% of Americans approve of Trump’s approach to foreign policy, trade negotiations and the economy.
Meanwhile, a New York Times/Siena College poll of registered voters on Friday found that Trump’s approval rating is 42%, and just 29% among independent voters.
More than half of voters said Trump is “exceeding the powers available to him”;, and 59% of respondents said the president’s second term has been “scary”;.
The Times survey found that only 43% of voters approve of how Trump is handling the economy – a stark turnaround from a Times poll in April 2024, which found that 64% approved of Trump’s economy in his first term.
Half of voters disapproved of Trump’s trade policies with other countries, and 61% said a President should not have the authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval.
The Times reported that 63% – including 40% of Republicans – said “a President should not be able to deport legal immigrants who have protested against Israel”;.
Further on immigration, a Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll on Friday found that 53% of Americans now disapprove of the President’s handling of immigration matters, while 46% approve.
The Post reported that as support has drained away on this topic, at this point 90% of Democrats, 56% of independents and 11% of Republicans dislike the way Trump is dealing with immigration.
An Associated Press poll on Thursday found that about half of US adults say that Trump’s trade policies will increase prices “a lot”; and another three in 10 think prices could go up “somewhat”;, and half of Americans are “extremely”; or “very”; concerned about the possibility of the US economy going into a recession in the next few months.
A survey published by Fox News on Wednesday found that just 38% of Americans approve of Trump on the economy, with 56% disapproving.
The Fox News poll found that 58% of respondents disapproved of Trump’s performance, and 59% disapproved on inflation.
Among generation Z, generally regarded as those born between 1995 and 2012, a staggering 69% told pollsters for an NBC Stay Tuned survey that they do not approve of Trump’s handling of the economy and the cost of living.
Gen Z participants complained of struggling to even pay the rent in some places, let alone buy a home, and they worry about inflation.
A minority of gen Z people polled also wants the people to live by traditional binary gender roles and more than 90% of those polled said they believed foreign students with visas or green cards should have the same due process protections as US citizens.
