Poll Position: Where Donald Trump Stands With Americans 100 Days Into His Second Presidency

President Donald Trump is giving himself a large thumbs-up erstwhile it comes to his occupation capacity during his 2nd circuit of work successful nan White House.

"I deliberation we're doing really well," Trump told reporters past week. 

The president, arsenic he neared nan 100-day mark into his 2nd administration, predicted that "we're going to beryllium nan strongest that we've ever been arsenic a nation."

Trump has aggressively asserted executive authority successful his 2nd term, overturning long-standing authorities argumentation and making 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.

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President Donald Trump, arsenic of Thursday morning, April 24, 2025, had signed 137 executive orders since returning to agency connected Jan. 20, 2025. (Getty Images)

However, nan latest canvass numbers suggest that Americans are not overly thrilled pinch nan occupation Trump's doing steering nan nation.

The president stands astatine 44% support and 55% disapproval successful nan astir caller Fox News nationalist poll, which was conducted April 18-21.

The president's numbers are besides underwater successful polls released nan past fewer days by ABC News/Washington Post (42% approval-55% disapproval), New York Times/Siena College (42%-54%), CNN (43%-57%), Reuters/Ipsos (42%-53%), Pew Research (40%-59%), and AP/NORC (39%-59%)

Most, but not all, of nan astir caller nationalist national sentiment surveys bespeak Trump's support ratings successful antagonistic territory, which is simply a descent from nan president's poll position erstwhile he started his 2nd circuit of work successful nan White House.

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Contributing to nan driblet are expanding concerns complete nan system and inflation, which were pressing issues that kept erstwhile President Joe Biden’s support ratings good beneath h2o for astir of his presidency. Additionally, Trump's blockbuster tariff announcement earlier this month, which 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.

Trump's support standing connected nan system stands astatine 38% successful nan Fox News poll, pinch conscionable a 3rd of respondents approving of nan occupation he is doing handling ostentation and tariffs.

President Donald Trump, whose support ratings are successful antagonistic territory, according to most, but not all, of nan latest nationalist polls, speaks arsenic he signs executive orders successful nan Oval Office of nan White House, connected Thursday, April 17, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Fox News canvass is nan latest to bespeak a monolithic partisan disagreement complete Trump.

Nearly nine-in-10 Republicans questioned gave nan president a thumbs-up, pinch 90% of Democrats disapproving of nan occupation Trump's doing. Nearly three-quarters of Independents besides disapprove of nan president's capacity successful office.

Daron Shaw, who serves arsenic a personnel of nan Fox News Decision Team and is nan Republican partner connected nan Fox News poll, noted "the consolidation of nan Republican base."

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"The party’s wholly solidified down him," added Shaw, a authorities professor and chair astatine nan University of Texas, who pointed retired that Trump’s existent coagulated GOP support was not nan lawsuit astatine nan commencement of nan first term, erstwhile he had problem pinch immoderate Republicans.

However, Trump's wide support standing is adjacent to wherever he stood 100 days into his first word successful office, successful 2017, erstwhile he stood astatine 45% support successful Fox News polling.

President Donald Trump, whose wide support standing is adjacent to wherever he stood 100 days into his first word successful agency successful 2017, according to Fox News polling, speaks to reporters connected committee Air Force One connected Saturday, April 12, 2025. (Pool via AP)

So really does Trump stack up against his statesmanlike predecessors?

"John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower had nan highest first-quarter mean ratings, pinch some registering supra 70%, while Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan averaged betwixt 60% and 69%. George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton had akin mean ratings of 55% to 58% successful their first quarters," Gallup noted successful a canvass released 2 weeks agone connected statesmanlike support ratings.

Gallup highlighted that "Trump is nan only president to person sub-50% mean support ratings during a first 4th successful office."

However, enjoying promising support ratings retired of nan gross does not guarantee a affirmative and productive presidency.

Carter's canvass numbers sank into antagonistic territory little than 2 years into his presidency, and he was resoundingly defeated successful his bid for re-election successful 1980.

Then-President Joe Biden speaks astatine nan State Department during nan closing days of his presidency connected Jan. 13, 2025 successful Washington D.C. (AP)

Biden stood astatine 54% support successful Fox News polling 100 days into office, pinch his numbers hovering successful nan low-to-mid-50s during nan first six months of his azygous word arsenic president.

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However, Biden's numbers sank into antagonistic territory successful nan precocious summertime and autumn of 2021, in the aftermath of his much-criticized handling of nan turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and amid soaring ostentation and a surge of migrants crossing into nan U.S. on nan nation's confederate separator pinch Mexico.

Biden's support ratings stayed underwater passim nan remainder of his presidency, and he dropped his bid for re-election past summer.

"He conscionable sewage crippled and ne'er recovered," Shaw said of Biden.