President Donald Trump's approval rating made strides in May when compared to the same poll from the month prior, widening the gap between Americans who are for and against him.
At the end of April, a joint national survey by InsiderAdvantage and Trafalgar Group showed that among likely voters, the president held a 2-point advantage in approval versus disapproval. The 1,200-person survey gave a 46% approval rating to Trump, while 44% of respondents disapproved, and 10% were undecided. However, the numbers seemed to only go up from there.
'Americans are relieved they're no longer being treated as second class citizens by their government.'
Fast-forward to Trafalgar's end of May/early June survey, and numbers in support of the president had significantly jumped among likely voters.
A whopping 54% of respondents either approved or strongly approved of Trump's job as president, while 46% disapproved or strongly disapproved.
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Moreover, slightly more Democrat voters participated in the 1,098-person survey than Republicans did.
Looking at Rasmussen's presidential approval tracker, Trump sat at 53% on June 2, just 3% shy of his inauguration week numbers. That week, Rasmussen reported Trump had hit record highs in net approval ratings, beating out numbers from his first term.
"President Trump’s approval rating rising suggests growing public support for his policy agenda," MRCTV host Justine Brooke Murray told Blaze News.
Murray added, "As more Americans reject the blatant bias of taxpayer-subsidized media, which is essentially compelled speech, efforts to rein in spending and enforce accountability may be resonating more broadly."
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Mass deportations of gang members and terrorists are also likely contributing to the approval rating, Murray noted, concluding, "Americans are relieved they're no longer being treated as second-class citizens by their government, which had previously sacrificed our citizens to our nation's own enemies."
Approval ratings across the board have certainly shown increased support for the president since his last term.
At the end of January, YouGov reported 62% of U.S. citizens thought Trump's inauguration speech was outstanding or above average, up from 49% in 2017.
As well, 43% viewed him as a very strong leader in 2025, with that number being at just 32% in 2017.
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Despite relentless attacks from the left, President Donald Trump's approval ratings have progressively increased, marking a stunning turnaround from last month's lows.
Since beginning his second term in office, Trump's disapproval rating peaked at 52.4% in late April, according to RealClearPolitics. The drop in support came just weeks after Trump rolled out 10% baseline tariffs as part of his Liberation Day declaration on April 2.
'His rising ratings are directly the result of his easing of concerns about his tariffs.'
Trump's critics slammed his tariff announcement, further fueling concerns about economic uncertainty that appeared to reflect in the polls, which showed a 45.3% approval rating on April 28.
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However, as Trump's administration has worked toward trade negotiations to promote its America First policy, economic concerns have decreased.
The latest polling reflects a substantial swing and a major win for Trump.
According to RealClearPolitics' data, Trump's disapproval rating dropped to 50%, and his approval rating increased to 47.5% on May 25.
While the president's approval rating is still in the red, the polling shift signals a significant reversal: Over the past month, Trump went from being 7.1 points behind to just 2.5 points.
Henry Olsen with the Ethics and Public Policy Center told Blaze News, "His rising ratings are directly the result of his easing of concerns about his tariffs." Olsen added that the polls "started to fall around Liberation Day and they started to rise after the deals with the [United Kingdom] and the pause [regarding] China."
Olsen stated that Trump's ratings "remain historically low for presidents in their first terms at this point in time, but they are much higher than they were at a corresponding point in 2017."
Trump's comeback in the polls even grabbed the attention of legacy media outlets.
Over the weekend, the New York Times released an article titled "How Donald Trump Has Remade America's Political Landscape," which noted how the president "has increased the Republican Party's share of the presidential vote in each election he's been on the ballot in close to half the counties in America — 1,433 in all."
The Times called it "a staggering political achievement."
The article noted how Trump has "steadily gained steam across a broad swath of the nation, with swelling support not just in white working-class communities but also in counties with sizable Black and Hispanic populations."
On Monday, Newsweek highlighted Trump's growing support among young adults. The piece cited a J.L. Partners/Daily Mail poll from mid-May that found Trump's approval rating among 18- to 29-year-olds increased by six points.
"An even bigger increase was seen in the latest YouGov/Economist poll, conducted between May 19 and 16 among 1,710 adults. In the survey, Trump's approval rating among Gen Z voters jumped 7 points, from 28 percent last week to 35 percent this week. Meanwhile, his disapproval rating dropped by 11 points to 51 percent," Newsweek reported.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) revealed Tuesday that polls matter when they reflect poorly on President Donald Trump but are alternatively meaningless when Schumer himself is implicated as an incredibly unpopular politician.
After Senate Democrats' weekly caucus lunch meeting, Schumer ambled over to reporters to recycle his usual anti-Trump rhetoric, this time framed as a critique of the president's first 100 days in office.
"There is a feeling of incompetence, of indecision, and chaos eating away at much of the country," said Schumer, "and that is emanating from the man who's in charge, Donald Trump."
Schumer claimed that the costs of cars, clothing, energy, and groceries are up, whereas "your retirement and 401Ks — down. The stock market? Down. The dollar — down. And today, we saw the trend continue. Consumer confidence? Down."
'Are you concerned that you may be a liability for your party?'
"Americans are noticing," continued the Democrat. "The polls this week show Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating since they started polling 80 years ago. The lowest. Even worse, 72% of Americans think it's likely that Trump's handling of the economy will walk us directly into a recession."
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS indicated Sunday that Trump's approval rating was 41%, the same result reached by a recent poll by the Economist/YouGov. An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released Tuesday put the president's approval rating at 42%. Emerson College and Rasmussen Reports polls both put Trump's approval several points higher, at 45% and 50%, respectively.
Several minutes after using recent approval polls to attack Trump, CNN reporter Manu Raju asked Schumer, "There's a poll out today that has your approval rating lower than any other congressional leader at 17%. Are you concerned that you may be a liability for your party?"
'We are focusing on how bad Trump is.'
The Democratic senator's approval rating is less than half of what Trump is netting at his worst.
While Schumer's average approval rating is 27.9%, according to RealClearPolitics, the CNN poll that put the president at 41% indicated Schumer's approval rating was 17% — the New York senator's worst approval numbers in a CNN poll going back eight years.
Later Tuesday, CNN talking head Kaitlan Collins told Schumer that while the poll showed a dip in Trump's approval, "It's not exactly great for your party, either, because Democrats, or people who lean Democrat, according to CNN's latest poll, say that they're not satisfied with your party's leadership."
After highlighting Schumer's abysmal approval rating and noting that 61% of respondents who identified as Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party disapproved of its leadership, Collins asked Schumer, "Is that concerning to you?"
Schumer answered, "No," then engaged in a few moments of cable news filibustering.
Collins later circled back to her question, pressing Schumer about how his approval rating bottomed out during Trump's first 100 days back in the White House.
"Look, the polls come and go, OK?" said Schumer. "I've been through all the years, and I've seen them. I pay attention to doing the right thing. And when you do the right thing, things work out all right. We are doing the right thing. We are focusing on how bad Trump is."
Although Schumer said he's not concerned about his unpopularity, he should be since there is considerable interest among New Yorkers in having someone else take his seat.
A survey conducted in late March by the liberal firm Data for Progress found that in a head-to-head matchup, 55% of Democratic likely voters would support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whereas only 36% supported or leaned toward backing Schumer.
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President Joe Biden is set to leave office on a record-low note. According to a national Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday, the 82-year-old Democrat has a disapproval rating nearly as high as that recently secured by Canada's Justin Trudeau, also apparently on his way out with a soiled legacy.
Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump's approval rating is the highest it has been since Marquette started asking Americans in March to reflect on how he handled his first term.
According to the poll, which was conducted from Dec. 2-11, Biden's approval rating fell from 38% in October to 34% this month, while his disapproval rating jumped over the same period from 62% to 66%. The closest Biden previously got to this record-high disapproval rating was 65% just after his ouster as Democratic presidential candidate in July.
FiveThirtyEight's polling average presently puts Biden's approval rating somewhat higher, at 37.2%. The highest job approval rating Gallup has on record for Biden was 57% in the first months of his presidency.
Democrats appear to be outliers on this issue.
It appears Biden's "unconditional" blanket pardon of his felonious son Hunter Biden did him no favors.
Pollsters asked, "How much do you approve or disapprove of President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted of federal charges for illegally buying a gun and who pleaded guilty to tax evasion?" Seventy-one percent of respondents said they disapproved. While 53% of Democrats signaled support for the pardon, 77% of independents and 92% of Republicans were not so forgiving.
The economy may have also impacted perceptions of Biden. The poll indicated that 4% of respondents said the economy was excellent; 25% said the economy was good; 50% said the economy was not so good; and 21% said the economy was poor.
Democrats appear to be outliers on this issue, with 51% stating the economy was good or excellent; 41% saying the economy was not so good; and 8% saying the economy was poor. Answers pertaining to respondents' financial situations helped make sense of these responses. Whereas overall, only 35% of respondents said they were living comfortably, 47% of Democrats said so.
When asked about how Trump handled his job while president in March, 49% of respondents signaled approval. In Marquette's latest poll, Trump's approval rating was 53%.
Favorability ratings tell a similar story. Trump's favorability in a November 2021 poll was 32% with 65% unfavorable. His favorability now stands at 49%.
Biden, on the other hand, has a favorability rating of 37%, with 62% of respondents viewing him unfavorably. In November 2021, Biden's favorability rating was 45%.
The poll also was telling in terms of support for policies and initiatives Trump proposed on the campaign trail.
While the public is skeptical about Trump's proposed tariffs, the poll indicated that 64% of respondents support deporting illegal aliens; 76% of respondents support requiring "transgender" athletes to compete on teams matching their actual sex; 74% support increased production of American oil and gas; 68% support parents' rights to make medical decisions for their children; 61% support banning hormone therapy and sex-change mutilations for minors; and 60% support cutting taxes even if the federal deficit increases.
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