President Donald J. Trump‘s approval rating has now hit a historic high in polling by the Pew Research Center, reflecting other surveys showing similar peak results. The Pew Research data has Trump’s approval currently sitting at 47 percent, higher than at any point during his first term in office from 2017 until 2021.
Notably, 28 percent of adults surveyed say President Trump is exceeding their expectations. Meanwhile, 36 percent say the America First leader is doing about as well as they thought he would. Conversely, 35 percent of respondents say Trump is doing worse than they expected.
Views on how Trump will impact the federal government’s functions are statistically evenly split, with 41 percent saying he will make things function better and 42 percent saying they will function worse. Trump enjoys strong approval among Republicans, with 76 percent saying Trump will improve federal government operations. Among Democrats, 78 percent say he will make federal government operations worse.
Including those who lean Republican, 67 percent say they support some or all of Trumop’s policies so far. Among those who lean Democrat, 84 percent say they don’t support some or all of Trump’s actions.
The first three weeks of Trump’s second term in the White House have seen a fast and furious push to implement his presidential agenda. President Trump has signed a bevy of executive orders that have closed the U.S. border with Mexico, authorized a major crackdown on illegal immigration, the mass deportation of illegal immigrants, the imposition of tariffs on foreign goods like steel and aluminum, and the abolition of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government and among federal contractors.
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