Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive economic discontent, including broad fears of a recession, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.
Yet he still beats the Democrats in Congress in terms of trust to handle the nation’s main problems.
Thirty-nine percent of respondents in this ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll said they approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, down 6 percentage points from February, while 55% said they disapprove.
The previous low in approval for a president at or near 100 days in office, in polls dating to 1945, was Trump’s 42% in 2017.
Perhaps most threatening to Trump, given his promise of an economic turnaround, is the extent of negative views on the economy: Seventy-two percent said they think it’s very or somewhat likely that his economic policies will cause a recession in the short term.
Seventy-three percent said the economy is in bad shape, 53% said it’s gotten worse since Trump took office and 41% said their own finances have worsened — which is as many as those who said so under President Joe Biden last summer.
Sixty-two percent said prices, which as a candidate, Trump pledged to curb, are rising. Seventy-one percent said they see his tariffs as a negative factor in price inflation. And just 31% in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates with fieldwork by Ipsos, said they accept Trump’s argument that the economy will emerge with a stronger foundation for the long term.
Negative assessments go beyond the economy. Sixty-five percent said Trump’s administration is trying to avoid complying with federal court orders, and 64% said he’s going too far in trying to expand presidential powers.
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