As the Economy Tumbles, so Does Trump’s Approval Rate
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 40 percent, lower than all other presidents at this point in their terms, new polling released by Pew Research Center on Wednesday shows. Americans want Trump to govern less by executive order, listen to the courts, and don’t like tariffs.
Trump is losing ground with people on the fence. From February to April, his approval rating fell from 88 percent to 75 percent among people who supported him in the 2024 election but “not strongly,” and from 44 percent to 31 percent among nonvoters.
Of course, partisans will be partisans, and Trump polls just as well with Republicans (and badly with Democrats) as you would expect. But there’s also been some unexpected movement, especially when it comes to the economy and trade. The poll was conducted from April 7 to April 13, at a time when the Trump administration was frantically announcing and canceling trade tariffs.
Perhaps most worrying for the Trump camp, 49 percent of Americans overall said that his policies were making the economy weaker compared to the Biden administration. In 2021, a plurality of Americans said that President Joe Biden’s policies were making the economy stronger compared to the last Trump administration.Â
The economic chaos from tariffs is clearly wearing on Trump’s own supporters. Republican confidence in Trump’s ability to “make good
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