WP Poll: 55% Negative, 39% Positive Ratings
Over 60% Disapprove of Tariff Policy and Stock Market Turmoil
CNN: Approval at 41%... "Lowest Since Eisenhower"
On April 29 (local time), President Donald Trump of the United States will mark the 100th day of his second term in office. A series of opinion polls have shown that his approval rating is declining. According to a CNN approval rating survey, Trump recorded the lowest 100-day approval rating since President Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953, marking a 70-year low.
According to the Washington Post (WP) on April 27, a poll conducted by Ipsos from April 18 to 22 among 2,464 Americans and released that day showed that 55% of respondents rated President Trump's job performance as "negative" (margin of error ±2 percentage points).
Only 39% of respondents rated his performance as "positive." In a February survey, this figure was 45%, but it dropped by 6 percentage points in two months, falling into the 30% range.
This is lower than the 42% approval rating Trump received at the same point during his first term. Former President Joe Biden, his predecessor, recorded a 52% approval rating at a similar point in his presidency.
WP reported, "Most presidents enjoy a 'honeymoon' period during the first few months after inauguration, with approval ratings tending to decline later in the first year," adding, "Trump may be an exception."
More specifically, 64% of respondents gave a negative assessment of his tariff policy. Only 34% gave it a positive assessment, which is just over half of the negative responses. The negative response rate regarding the stock market turmoil caused by the tariff policy was even higher at 67%. Regarding economic policy and relations with foreign countries, 61% of respondents answered negatively.
Policies that received relatively higher positive evaluations were immigration policy and federal government management, with positive ratings of 46% and 42%, respectively. However, the number of respondents with negative evaluations was higher, at 53% and 57%, respectively.
Americans' economic outlook was bleak. 72% of respondents expected President Trump's economic policies to cause a short-term recession, and more than half of them?51%?were Republican Party members.
In another poll conducted by SSRS in cooperation with CNN from April 17 to 24 among 1,678 Americans and released that day, President Trump's approval rating was 41%, down 4 percentage points from the March survey and 7 percentage points from the February survey (margin of error ±2.9 percentage points).
Regarding this, CNN pointed out, "President Trump's approval rating is the lowest among 100-day-old new presidents since at least former President Eisenhower (who served from 1953 to 1961)."
Approval ratings for specific policies also fell. Support for inflation management and tariff policy was 35% each, down 9 percentage points and 4 percentage points, respectively, compared to the previous month. The evaluation of his economic management ability dropped by 5 percentage points to a low of 39%, and trust in his ability to solve economic problems was tallied at 52%, which is 13 percentage points lower than the December 2024 survey. However, more than half of respondents?51%?gave a positive assessment of "gender identity and transgender-related policies."
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