Donald Trump has the bottom 100-day job approval ranking of any president up to now 80 years, with public pushback on a lot of his insurance policies and in depth financial discontent, together with broad fears of a recession, based on a brand new ABC Information/Washington Put up/Ipsos ballot.
But he nonetheless beats the Democrats in Congress by way of belief to deal with the nation’s foremost issues.
Thirty-nine % of respondents on this ABC Information/Washington Put up/Ipsos ballot stated they approve of how Trump is dealing with his job as president, down 6 proportion factors from February, whereas 55% stated they disapprove.
The earlier low in approval for a president at or close to 100 days in workplace, in polls courting to 1945, was Trump’s 42% in 2017.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, April 23, 2025.
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Maybe most threatening to Trump, given his promise of an financial turnaround, is the extent of unfavourable views on the financial system: Seventy-two % stated they assume it is very or considerably possible that his financial insurance policies will trigger a recession within the brief time period.
Seventy-three % stated the financial system is in dangerous form, 53% stated it is gotten worse since Trump took workplace and 41% stated their very own funds have worsened — which is as many as those that stated so beneath President Joe Biden final summer season.
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Sixty-two % stated costs, which as a candidate, Trump pledged to curb, are rising. Seventy-one % stated they see his tariffs as a unfavourable consider value inflation. And simply 31% on this ballot, produced for ABC by Langer Analysis Associates with fieldwork by Ipsosstated they settle for Trump’s argument that the financial system will emerge with a stronger basis for the long run.
Damaging assessments transcend the financial system. Sixty-five % stated Trump’s administration is making an attempt to keep away from complying with federal courtroom orders, and 64% stated he is going too far in making an attempt to broaden presidential powers.
Sixty-two % stated they do not assume his administration respects the rule of legislation.
Majorities additionally expressed concern that the president will do an excessive amount of to scale back the scale and position of presidency (58%), argued he is acted past his authority as president with out justification (56%) and doubted the Trump administration’s dedication to defending residents’ rights and freedoms (55%).
Views on Trump and his administration’s actions
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Wherever from 57% to 67% of Individuals stated they disapprove of Trump’s efficiency on six of seven points examined on this survey, together with at the very least 6 in 10 on his dealing with of inventory market volatility, tariffs, overseas relations and the financial system total.
Fewer, 53%, stated they disapprove of his dealing with of immigration.
Trump approval on the problems
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Six in 10 or extra stated they oppose varied administration initiatives, peaking at 77% against cuts in federal funding for medical analysis.
Seventy % had been against rising the federal authorities’s position in how non-public universities are run, 67% had been against ending birthright citizenship and 66% had been against closing the Division of Schooling.
As reported Friday, opposition to deporting immigrants is decrease, 51%. Moreover, on college governance, the general public sided with Harvard College over the Trump administration of their dispute, 66%-32%.
Views on Trump initiatives
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In one other gauge, 57% stated Trump is “going too far” in closing federal businesses, and it is about the identical, 56%, in each shedding federal workers and in taking motion towards his political opponents.
This eases to about half on ending variety, fairness and inclusion initiatives, reflecting the general public’s divide on whether or not DEI efforts assist degree the enjoying subject (51%) or create unfair discrimination (47%).
Trump’s actions on the problems
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In a optimistic for the president, extra individuals stated they imagine waste all through the federal authorities has decreased somewhat than elevated beneath Trump, 43%-25%. The remaining stated it is stayed the identical.
That does not carry over in perceptions of fraud: Thirty-four % stated they assume this has elevated, whereas 32% stated it has decreased.
One other query, raised by Trump’s complete efforts to reshape the federal government, discovered that 49% assume the president is transferring the nation away from its founding ideas, whereas 34% assume he is transferring it nearer towards them. Seventeen % stated they do not assume he is transferring it both manner.
Approval
At 39%, Trump’s job approval ranking is down from 45% in a Washington Put up/Ipsos ballot in February. It now virtually precisely matches his common, 40%, throughout his first time period — tied with Biden for the bottom presidential profession common accessible, courting again to President Harry Truman.
Notably, simply 21% now stated they “strongly” approve of Trump’s work in workplace, his lowest proportion on report. About twice as many, 44%, stated they strongly disapprove.
Trump’s approval ranking from non-college-educated white males, a core assist group, is 54%, tying his low on this group from his first time period.
Demonstrators protest exterior of Trump Nationwide Golf Membership as US President Donald Trump arrives, in Sterling, Virginia, April 24, 2025.
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Which will replicate that 43% of non-college-educated white males stated the nation’s financial system has worsened beneath Trump, and a 3rd stated they’ve gotten much less properly off financially since he is taken workplace.
Trump can be tied together with his earlier lows in approval amongst Democrats and liberals.
Nonetheless, Trump is hanging on to the huge bulk of his voters.
Amongst individuals who voted for him in November, simply 6% stated they now remorse it, whereas 94% stated it was the precise factor to do. (Purchaser’s remorse was even decrease, 2%, at this level in his first time period, a 4-point swing.)
Supporters of President Donald Trump cheer as he travels to Palm Seashore Worldwide Airport in West Palm Seashore, Florida, Feb. 9, 2025.
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In one other gauge of partisanship, 83% of Republicans stated they approve of Trump’s work in workplace, whereas 93% of Democrats and 60% of independents stated they disapprove.
A distinction is that 51% of Republicans strongly approve of Trump, whereas 85% of Democrats strongly disapprove. So do 44% of independents, thrice as many as those that strongly approve.
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Trump’s rankings on particular person points, absent immigration, are additionally underwater.
Sixty-seven % stated they disapprove of his dealing with of the current turmoil within the inventory market.
The S&P 500 is down 8.7% since Trump took workplace.
On tariffs, 64% stated they disapprove; on each the financial system total and U.S. relations with different international locations, 61% stated they disapprove; on searching for the pursuits of common Individuals, 58% stated they disapprove; and on managing the federal authorities, 57% stated they disapprove.
Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer and Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries maintain a press convention concerning the actions of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump towards federal businesses in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025.
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The opposition
The silver lining for Trump is that the opposition occasion stays out of favor.
Folks stated they belief him over the Democrats in Congress to deal with the nation’s foremost issues by 37%-30%. Underscoring bipartisan disaffection, 30% stated they do not belief both occasion.
Additional, whereas 60% stated Trump is out of contact with the issues of most individuals within the nation, much more, 69%, stated the Democratic Get together is out of contact. It is 64% for the Republican Get together total.
Out of contact with most individuals’s issues
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There are some telling partisan gaps.
Within the political center, 62% of independents stated Trump is out of contact, whereas considerably extra, 76%, stated the Democratic Get together is out of contact. And in their very own camps, comparatively few Republicans stated Trump is out of contact, 19%, whereas twice as many Democrats, 38%, stated this about their very own occasion.
Elon Musk listens to President Donald Trump communicate within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, Feb. 11, 2025.
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On the similar time, extra individuals stated each events must be doing extra to oppose Trump somewhat than extra to assist him — the Democratic Get together by 46%-38% and the Republican Get together by 50%-26%, with the remainder saying every occasion is dealing with this about proper.
In each circumstances, independents assist tip the stability to opposing versus supporting Trump.
Courts and Compliance
By way of the authorized battles over Trump’s strikes, individuals broadly rejected the administration’s accusations of improper judicial interference.
Most, 62%-35%, stated federal judges try to implement present limits on Trump’s authorized authority somewhat than making an attempt to intrude together with his authority.
A fair wider margin of individuals, 67%-31%, stated federal judges ought to have the authority to dam an administration coverage till a trial is held in the event that they assume it’ll hurt individuals and might be unlawful.
Elon Musk listens to President Donald Trump communicate within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, Feb. 11, 2025.
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Additional, individuals stated by a margin of 67%-31% that they assume the Trump administration is making an attempt to keep away from complying with courtroom orders concerning its actions somewhat than making an attempt to adjust to these orders.
Reducing authorities
Majority perceptions of presidential overreach are frequent.
As talked about, 58% stated they categorical concern that Trump will do an excessive amount of to scale back the scale and position of the federal authorities. That is basically a mirror of attitudes beneath Biden: Fifty-nine % stated they had been involved he’d do an excessive amount of to extend the federal government’s dimension and position.
The distinction is in partisan divisions, reflecting sharply completely different views of presidency between Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents on one hand and Republicans and Republican-leaning independents on the opposite.
President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky meet within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, Feb. 28, 2025.
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Within the Democratic group, 91% stated they’re involved Trump will do an excessive amount of to shrink the scale and position of presidency, whereas 26% within the Republican group stated the identical.
In 2021, in contrast, 87% within the GOP camp stated they had been involved that Biden would go too far to extend the federal government’s dimension and position, whereas 31% within the Democratic group stated so.
Views on the Trump administration chopping federal laws are extra carefully divided.
Fifty-two % stated they assume it’ll lower laws which can be wanted to guard public well being and security, whereas 46% as a substitute stated they assume it’ll lower pointless laws whereas holding these which can be wanted.
International relations and Russia
Within the final space lined by this survey, respondents by 49%-34% stated they assume Trump has weakened somewhat than strengthened U.S. management on the earth.
Whereas nonetheless unfavourable, that is higher than Biden’s 48%-23% outcome on the identical query in 2022.
Relating to Russia, 46% stated Trump’s strategy is simply too pleasant, whereas 11% stated it is too confrontational and 40% stated it is about proper. That is much like what it was in a January 2017 ballot.
This survey was accomplished earlier than the administration’s transfer up to now week, pressuring Ukraine to simply accept a ceasefire deal favorable to Russia.
Methodology: This ABC Information/Washington Put up/Ipsos ballot was carried out on-line by way of the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel® April 18-22, 2025, in English and Spanish, amongst a random nationwide pattern of two,464 adults. Partisan divisions are 30%-30%-29%, Democrats-Republicans-independents.
Outcomes have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 proportion factors, together with the design impact. Error margins are bigger for subgroups. Sampling error isn’t the one supply of variations in polls.
The survey was produced for ABC Information by Langer Analysis Associateswith sampling and knowledge assortment by Ipsos.
See particulars on ABC Information survey methodology right here.
