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 the House of Representatives!" Trump touted successful a societal media station Thursday.

The president's station came soon aft the GOP-controlled House passed Trump's sweeping taxation and spending cuts bundle 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, vigor and the indebtedness limit.

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

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President Donald Trump arrives connected the South Lawn of the 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 survey by Marquette Law School. And Trump was astatine 42% support and 52% disapproval successful a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

And a Gallup canvass released connected Friday but conducted earlier the House ballot enactment Trump's support astatine 43% and disapproval astatine 53%.

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

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Trump has aggressively asserted enforcement authorization successful his 2nd term, overturning longstanding authorities argumentation and aiming to marque large cuts to the national workforce done an avalanche of sweeping and arguable enforcement orders and actions, with immoderate aimed astatine addressing grievances helium has held since his archetypal term.

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

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

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

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

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

"Immigration is declining present arsenic a salient issue," said Daron Shaw, who serves arsenic a subordinate of the Fox News Decision Team and is the Republican spouse connected the Fox News poll.

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

President Trump's occupation show numbers  (Fox News )

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

Contributing to the descent implicit the past mates of months successful Trump's wide support ratings was his show connected the 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 aboriginal April sparked a commercialized warfare with immoderate of the nation's apical trading partners, triggered a monolithic sell-off successful the fiscal markets and accrued concerns astir a recession.

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

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

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

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

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

"Prices haven’t travel down, and it’s not wide that radical volition accidental the lack of ostentation is an economical victory. They inactive consciousness that an appreciable information of their wealth is going to wage for basal things," helium added. "What Trump is realizing is that prices person to travel down for him to beryllium capable to state success."