Grading Trump: Where The President Stands In The Eyes Of Americans Four Months Into His Second Term

President Donald Trump this week enjoyed 1 of his biggest legislative victories during his 2nd administration.

"THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL" has PASSED nan House of Representatives!" Trump touted successful a societal media station Thursday.

The president's station came soon aft nan GOP-controlled House passed Trump's sweeping taxation and spending cuts package by a razor-thin margin. The Republican-crafted measurement is afloat of Trump's run way promises and second-term priorities connected taxation cuts, immigration, defense, power and nan indebtedness limit.

Ahead of nan House vote, 2 surveys released earlier successful nan week indicated that nan president's canvass numbers remained underwater.

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President Donald Trump arrives connected nan South Lawn of nan White House May 22, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

The president stood astatine 46% support and 54% disapproval successful a nationalist study by Marquette Law School. And Trump was astatine 42% support and 52% disapproval successful a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Most, but not all, of nan latest nationalist surveys spot nan president's support standing successful antagonistic territory, pinch a fistful indicating Trump is supra water.

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Trump has aggressively asserted executive authority successful his 2nd term, overturning longstanding authorities argumentation and aiming to make awesome cuts to nan national workforce done an avalanche of sweeping and arguable executive orders and actions, pinch immoderate aimed astatine addressing grievances he has held since his first term.

Trump started his 2nd management pinch canvass numbers successful affirmative territory, but his canvass numbers started to descent soon aft his late-January inauguration.

President Donald Trump signs an executive bid successful nan Oval Office of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

But 2 issues wherever nan president remains astatine aliases supra h2o successful immoderate surveys are border security and immigration, which were beforehand and halfway successful Trump's successful 2024 run to triumph backmost nan White House.

Trump stands astatine 56% support of separator information and 50% support of migration successful nan Marquette Law School poll, which was conducted May 5-15.

But Trump's muscular moves connected separator information and immigration, which person sparked contention and ineligible pushback, don't look to beryllium helping his wide support ratings.

"Immigration is declining now arsenic a salient issue," said Daron Shaw, who serves arsenic a personnel of nan Fox News Decision Team and is nan Republican partner connected nan Fox News poll.

Shaw, a authorities professor and chair astatine nan University of Texas, said "immigration and particularly separator information are opening to suffer steam arsenic 1 of nan apical 3 issues facing nan country. Republicans still complaint them reasonably highly, but Democrats and independents, who had benignant of joined nan chorus successful 2024, person moved connected and, successful particular, moved backmost to nan system arsenic a focal point."

President Trump's occupation capacity numbers  (Fox News )

Pointing to Trump, Shaw added that "when you person occurrence connected an issue, it tends to move to nan backmost burner."

Contributing to nan descent complete nan past mates of months successful Trump's wide support ratings was his capacity connected nan system and, successful particular, inflation, which were pressing issues that kept erstwhile President Joe Biden’s support ratings good beneath h2o for astir of his presidency.

Trump's blockbuster tariff announcement successful early April sparked a waste and acquisition warfare pinch immoderate of nan nation's apical trading partners, triggered a monolithic sell-off successful nan financial markets and accrued concerns astir a recession.

But nan markets person rebounded, acknowledgment successful portion to a truce betwixt nan U.S. and China successful their tariff standoff arsenic Trump tapped nan brakes connected his arguable tariff implementation.

Trump stood astatine 37% support connected tariffs and 34% connected inflation/cost of surviving successful nan Marquette Law School poll. And he stood astatine 39% connected nan system and 33% connected costs of surviving successful nan Reuters/Ipsos poll, conducted May 16-18.

President Donald Trump announces nan imposition of tariffs connected countries crossed nan globe during a White House arena April 2, 2025.  (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

Doug Heye, a longtime GOP strategist and erstwhile RNC and Bush management official, pointed to past year’s election, saying, "The main logic Trump won was to little prices. Prices haven’t lowered, and polls are reflecting that."

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"With nan objection of state prices, location hasn’t been overmuch of a simplification successful prices," Shaw said.

"Prices haven’t travel down, and it’s not clear that group will opportunity nan absence of ostentation is an economical victory. They still consciousness that an appreciable information of their money is going to salary for basal things," he added. "What Trump is realizing is that prices person to travel down for him to beryllium capable to state success."