About 42 per cent of Americans approve of Trump’s performance as president, down from 43 per cent three weeks earlier and 47 per cent immediately after his 20 January inauguration, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.
More than four fifths of voters said that presidents should obey rulings by federal courts — including, significantly, a large majority of Republican voters.
Of major concern to Americans is Trump’s open defiance of judicial authority. An overwhelming 83 per cent of poll respondents said the president must obey federal court rulings, regardless of his personal disagreements.
The Trump administration has been accused of skirting, if not outright ignoring, such rulings, notably in its attempts to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang without allowing them to challenge their removals in court.
The Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, where the Trump administration deported alleged members of Venezuelan criminal organisations (Photo: Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
“Largely, what we’ve seen is that his approval rating has really come down from 20 January, where it sat at about 47 per cent, which is on the higher end for Trump”, said Kaitlin Senk, lecturer at the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at the University of Bath.
Nonetheless, “I think in general, this is a fairly unpopular thing to do to defy the courts”, Senk said.
Moderates’ ‘wavering’ support
Political analysts suggest support for Trump among moderates may be fraying, particularly among those voters who initially backed him as a reaction to the what they may have viewed as the failings of the Biden administration, including its inability to address economic concerns.
“I think potentially what’s happening now is you’re starting to see moderates kind of wavering a bit on their support”, she said.
US border agents guide undocumented migrants to board a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in Texas. Polling suggests Trump’s immigration policy is popular among his supporters (Photo: Nicholas De La Pena/AFP/Getty Images)Furthermore, about 59 per cent of respondents, including about 30 per cent of Republicans, said America was losing credibility on the global stage.
Thomas Gift, Associate Professor of Political Science at University College London (UCL) and founding Director of the UCL Centre on US Politics, said: “Donald Trump has a notoriously loyal base of support. I mean, Donald Trump survives two impeachment hearings and an unlimited number of scandals in the interim. So nothing that Donald Trump has done to this point, I think, is really going to shake his core supporters.”
Trump appointed himself as chairman of the board of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a move that has drawn significant attention and controversy.
Trump in the Grand Foyer of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after removing the bipartisan board of Biden appointees and named himself Chairman (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)The vast majority of voters, 75 per cent, said Trump should not pursue a third term in office — a prospect in which he has expressed interest, despite it being prohibited by the US Constitution.
‘Flooding the zone’
Trump’s early-term strategy appears to be defined by an intense, fast-paced push to implement sweeping changes, echoing his former chief strategist Steve Bannon’s philosophy of “flooding the zone”, Gift pointed out.
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Trump “sees that he needs to make the most of the changes that he wants within his first 100 days, and he isn’t stopping”, said Gift.
Gift said Trump’s aim to make making Canada the 51st state, reclaiming the Panama Canal, trying to seize Greenland, creating the Department of Government Efficiency, attacking universities — “All of this is just really unprecedented.”
“It’s really unprecedented. We’re kind of in uncharted territory, and it’s not clear how this will play out.”
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