Americans’ approval for Trump fell to the lowest level in his new term
President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to 43%, the lowest of his return to the post, as Americans are dissatisfied with his duties and the way his administration processes a military strike information in Yemen, a Reuters/Ipsos study found.
The three-day study, which ended on Wednesday, showed approval for Trump’s presentation as a 2 percentage point of less than a survey conducted on March 21-23 and 4 points under the approval of 47%, which he received shortly after taking office on January 20.
Trump registered his highest first-term approval rating (49%), shortly after taking office in January 2017. His lowest rating for the first term was 33% in December 2017. His total approval remained stronger than for most of his first term.
Democrat Joe Biden, Trump’s predecessor in the White House, had his lowest rating – 35% – just before the presidential election last November.
The respondents gave weak estimates to Trump to deal with the economy, which 37% approved, with 30% approving his work to deal with the high costs of life, a problem that also pursued Biden.
| About half of the respondents – 52% – agreed with the claim that increasing duties on cars and auto parts, some of the new duties that Trump revealed on Wednesday would harm their loved ones and approximately the same share that raising the duties would bring more harm than benefit. About a third of the Americans – mainly from Trump’s Republican Party – they said they did not agree with the allegations that duties would hurt. |
Trump has organized a storm of changes in policy since he took office, eliminating nearly 200,000 federal employees and overturning long -standing US diplomatic norms. His customs policies have frightened investors, which led to the sale of the stock market against the background of fears that they could cause a recession.
Respondents also accused the Trump administration of handling military secrets, after the disclosure last week that senior leaders had discussed plans to attack extremists in Yemen in the Signal Communication Communication Application and had inadvertently shared preliminary plans with a journalist.
| About 74% of the respondents in the Reuters/IPSOS poll – including 91% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans – said it was reckless to discuss plans to attack in this way, compared to 22%, who said it was a harmless mistake. Another 70% agree with the claim that Trump should take responsibility for the case. |
Only 34% of the respondents in the survey approved the way Trump handles foreign policywhich is a decline of 37% in the Reuters/IPSOS poll from March 21-23. About 48% of the respondents approve of the way Trump handles immigration.
The latest Reuters/IPSOS survey, which was conducted online and nationwide, surveyed 1486 elderly Americans and had an error of about 3 percentage points.
