As the 100th day of Trump’s second term draws near, the repercussions and reality of his swift and sweeping policies are becoming ever clearer to the American public.
The US President has often called unflattering reports and comments “fake news”, but the latest polling includes even administration-friendly outlet Fox News, which gave him a -11 approval rating.
“What it shows is that, obviously, President Trump is removing the guardrails off a traditional presidency, and removing our system in the United States of checks and balances, and just trying to do things as an authoritarian would try to do them,” said Sozan.
Polls consistently show public confidence in the President’s agenda is fading. A Gallup poll released this week showed that for the first time in a quarter-century, the majority of Americans, 53 per cent, said their personal financial situation was worsening. Republicans accounted for 28 per cent of that group.
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell on 11 April (Photo: Timothy A Clary/AFP)
Multiple polls have shown that Trump’s overall approval rating on the economy continues to decline – but perhaps most strikingly, this trend is also reflected in a Fox News poll released this week.
Trump’s “worst ratings” are on inflation, the poll found, with 33 per cent approval and 59 per cent disapproval, followed by tariffs (33-58 per cent), foreign policy (40-54 per cent), taxes (38-53 per cent), and guns (41-44 per cent) respectively.
“I think these poll numbers, particularly from Fox, kind of align with what we’re seeing from other polls as well, in that we’re seeing a decline in overall approval ratings. He’s, you know, mostly in the negative there,” said Kaitlin Senk, lecturer at the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at the University of Bath.
Affecting Americans’ bottom line
But an Economist-YouGov poll released on Wednesday showed Trump’s approval on jobs and the economy dropping by double digits for the first time, with 53 per cent of Americans disapproving compared with just 41 per cent approving.
Trumps’s senior adviser Elon Musk has proven a hugely unpopular part of the administration (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP)
Americans indicated by a margin of roughly 30 points that Trump’s economic policies had harmed them personally rather than benefited them, and similarly, by more than 30 points, they feel these policies have hurt the US economy overall.
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The higher approval ratings on issues like immigration may be due to the fact that people are paying closer attention to issues that are affecting them directly, like bills and prices at the store, said Senk.
However, interestingly, a poll this week suggested that nearly two to one – 50 per cent to 28 per cent – of Americans felt that Trump should abide by a court order to return a wrongly deported man to the US.
US military staff install concertina wire on top of the wall along the US-Mexico border on Wednesday (Photo: Patrick/AFP/Getty Images)
Approval ratings on how Trump is handling issues like immigration and deportations may begin to decline more noticeably, Senk said.
The Elon Musk factor
Cutting excessive government spending was one of the most popular issues during the campaign, but it has since become one of the most controversial topics in terms of approval ratings, largely due to Elon Musk’s aggressive, “chainsaw” approach to implementing cuts within government programmes.
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“That’s something that sounds very good to people, to voters on paper, but is actually quite difficult to do in practice. And it very much requires an in-depth understanding of how these different government agencies work,” Senk said.
As Trump nears the 100-day milestone of his second term, his administration may be compelled to re-evaluate its heavy-handed approach to governance.
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