{"id":267409,"date":"2026-01-28T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:47:07","slug":"trumps-approval-rating-slips-in-wake-of-pretti-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/267409\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Approval Rating Slips In Wake Of Pretti Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 27Trump\u2019s approval rating dropped to 45% in Morning Consult\u2019s latest survey<\/a>, down from 46% last week, while the survey found 52% disapprove of his job performance (the survey of 2,201 registered U.S. voters conducted Jan. 23-25 has a margin of error of 2).<\/p>\n

Jan. 26A Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> found views of Trump\u2019s handling of immigration dipped to a record low, with 39% approving and 53% disapproving, according to the survey of 1,139 U.S. adults conducted Jan. 23-25 (margin of error 3). <\/p>\n

His overall approval rating was down three points from last week, to 38%, and his disapproval rating increased one point, to 59%.<\/p>\n

Jan. 22Trump\u2019s 40% approval rating and 56% disapproval rating in the New York Times\/Siena poll is slightly below his 41% average rating in both his first and second terms, according to Gallup<\/a> polling and is three points below his rating in the previous New York Times\/Siena survey in September.<\/p>\n

The poll also found 49% of respondents said the country is worse off after the first year of his second term, while 32% said it\u2019s better and 19% said it\u2019s about the same (the poll of 1,625 registered voters was conducted Jan. 12-17 and has a 2.8-point margin of error).<\/p>\n

A majority of voters disapprove of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy, immigration, the Russia-Ukraine war and Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Trump called the results \u201cfake\u201d in a Truth Social post<\/a> Thursday and said he would add the survey to his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the paper, claiming, without evidence, the poll was \u201cheavily skewed toward Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jan. 22An Emerson College poll<\/a> found 43% of voters approve of Trump\u2019s job performance and 51% disapprove\u2014a slight improvement from his 41%\/50% approval\/disapproval rating in the group\u2019s previous survey in December (the poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters was conducted Jan. 17-19 and has a margin of error of 3).<\/p>\n

Jan. 22Trump\u2019s net approval rating declined two points in the latest Economist\/YouGov survey<\/a> compared to last week, with 37% approving of his job performance and 56% disapproving.<\/p>\n

His -19 net approval rating is a record low for his second term in the groups\u2019 polling and is down from +2 when he took office (the latest poll of 1,722 U.S. adults was conducted Jan. 16-19 and has a 3.2-point margin of error).<\/p>\n

Jan. 20Trump\u2019s ratings improved slightly in Morning Consult\u2019s weekly poll<\/a> compared to last week\u2014the share of registered voters who approve has increased from 45% to 46% and the share who disapprove has decreased from 53% to 51% (the poll of 2,201 registered U.S. voters was conducted Jan. 16-18 and has a margin of error of 2).<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s approval rating has declined from 52% at the start of his term in Morning Consult polling, decreasing significantly after announcing a series of steep tariffs against U.S. trading partners in April last year and hovering at around 45% since.<\/p>\n

Voters\u2019 views of his handling of foreign policy recovered slightly from a record low of net -4 last week to net -1 this week, with 45% approving and 46% disapproving\u2014in the wake of Maduro\u2019s capture on Jan. 3, Trump has upped his threats to take over Greenland, intervene in anti-government protests in Iran and impose tariffs on some countries in the European Union. <\/p>\n

Jan. 15Trump\u2019s 40% approval rating in the Associated Press\/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research January survey<\/a> is largely consistent with his numbers throughout the first year of his second term\u2014and are similar to his ratings in his first term, when he entered the presidency with a 42% approval rating and left office with nearly the same number.<\/p>\n

Americans\u2019 views of Trump\u2019s handling of immigration\u2014one of his signature issues\u2014have declined sharply throughout his first year in office, however, reaching 38% in January, down from 49% in March last year. <\/p>\n

The poll overlapped with several high-profile shootings involving ICE officers, including the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, when an ICE agent shot multiple rounds through her car window at close range in an incident captured by bystanders\u2019 video\u2014prompting a heated partisan debate about whether she was aiming to hit the officer with her vehicle, with some on the right<\/a> breaking with Trump and his allies in denouncing the shooting as an unjustified use of force.<\/p>\n

Jan. 14Trump\u2019s approval rating increased to 40% from 36% in December, while his disapproval rating decreased from 61% to 59% in the latest AP\/NORC poll<\/a> of 1,203 U.S. adults conducted Jan. 8-11 (margin of error 3.9).<\/p>\n

Despite the improvement in Trump\u2019s overall approval rating, the poll found a plurality of respondents (45%) want the U.S. to take a less active role in solving global issues, an increase from the 33% who said the same in December. <\/p>\n

Jan. 14Trump\u2019s approval rating was also at 40% in the latest Economist\/YouGov poll<\/a> released Wednesday and his disapproval rating was 56%, a slight improvement from last week (the poll of 1,437 registered voters was conducted Jan. 9-12 and has a margin of error of 3.1).<\/p>\n

Jan. 6Trump\u2019s 39% approval rating and 56% disapproval rating is unchanged from last week\u2019s Economist\/YouGov survey<\/a> of 1,551 U.S. adults taken Jan. 2-5 (margin of error 3.3).<\/p>\n

Jan. 6Trump\u2019s approval rating dipped one point, to 46%, in the latest Morning Consult survey<\/a>, consistent with his average job performance rating throughout his second term, according to the poll of 2,201 registered U.S. voters taken Jan. 2-4 (margin of error 2).<\/p>\n

Jan. 5Trump\u2019s approval rating ticked up three points, to 42%, and his disapproval rating decreased three points, to 56%, in the latest Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a> of 1,248 U.S. adults taken Jan. 4-5, after the U.S. captured Maduro and his wife in a stunning raid early Saturday. <\/p>\n

Views of Trump\u2019s job performance improved to their highest point since October, despite only one in three Americans approving of the military operation and 72% saying they\u2019re worried the U.S. will become too involved in Venezuela, according to the Reuters\/Ipsos poll, which has a margin of error of 3).<\/p>\n

Dec. 30Trump ends the year with a 39% approval rating and 56% disapproval rating in the Economist\/YouGov\u2019s weekly poll<\/a> following a downward trend since the start of his second term linked to his handling of the economy\u2014as more than half of poll respondents, 51%, said they believe the economy is getting worse (the latest survey of 1,550 U.S. adults was conducted Dec. 26-29 and has a 3.6-point margin of error).<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s -17% net approval rating compares to a -14% net approval rating after the first year of his first term and a -10% net approval rating after Biden\u2019s first year, according to Economist\/YouGov polling. <\/p>\n

Dec. 18Trump had a 41% approval rating and 50% disapproval rating in an Emerson College poll<\/a> of 1,000 voters taken Dec. 14-15 (margin of error 3).<\/p>\n

The numbers are nearly the same as they were in November, when Trump also had a 41% approval rating and a 49% disapproval rating, but are a sharp turn from his 49% approval\/41% disapproval rating in the group\u2019s January poll taken at the start of his term. <\/p>\n

Dec. 17Trump\u2019s overall job performance had a 38% approval rating in the latest NPR\/PBS\/Marist poll<\/a> of 1,440 adults conducted Dec. 8-11 (margin of error 3.2), while 54% disapprove. <\/p>\n

His 36% approval rating on his handling of the economy is at its lowest point for both his first and second terms.<\/p>\n

Dec. 17Trump had a 40% approval rating and 54% disapproval rating in a Quinnipiac University poll<\/a> taken Dec. 11-15 among 1,035 registered voters (margin of error 3.9), unchanged from Trump\u2019s October approval\/disapproval rating.<\/p>\n

Dec. 16Trump\u2019s approval rating decreased from 41% to 39% in a Reuters\/Ipsos poll<\/a>, compared to the groups\u2019 poll the previous week week, while his disapproval rating also increased from 57% to 59% (the poll of 1,016 respondents was taken Dec. 12-15 and has a three-point margin of error).<\/p>\n

Approval of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy slipped from 36% to 33% while the share of respondents who said they disapprove increased from 52% to 58%.<\/p>\n

Dec. 11Trump\u2019s 36% approval rating was unchanged from AP-NORC\u2019s November poll in its survey<\/a> of 1,146 adults conducted Dec. 4-8 (margin of error 4), but his rating on the economy dipped to 31%, a low point for both terms. <\/p>\n

Dec. 19Trump\u2019s approval rating ticked up to 41% from 38% in late November in Reuters\/Ipsos\u2019 poll, while his disapproval rating decreased from 60% to 57% (the poll of 4,434 U.S. adults was conducted Dec. 3-8 and has a two-point margin of error).<\/p>\n

The uptick coincided with an increase in his performance on the cost of living\u2014from 26% last month to 31% this month among all respondents, driven by a 10-point gain among Republican voters. <\/p>\n

Trump has sought to improve voters\u2019 views on his handling of the economy, kicking off an \u201caffordability tour\u201d in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The New York Times\u2019s polling average<\/a> found Trump had a 42% approval rating and 55% disapproval rating after several weeks of declining support. <\/p>\n

The data shows voters increasingly disapprove of his handling of the economy\u2014net approval of his economic performance has fallen across surveys\u2014with just 26% percent of respondents believing Trump is doing a good job at managing the cost of living, according to the Reuters\/Ipsos poll.<\/p>\n

Trump has also seen faltering numbers from within his own party and one-time supporters: Only 75% of Republicans approved of his handling of the economy in November, down from 82% in July, according to Marquette University polling, and his approval rating among white, college-educated men has dropped to 40% from 47% in June, according to polling from Fox News.<\/p>\n

Dec. 2The Economist\/YouGov\u2019s weekly poll<\/a> of 1,628 U.S. adults taken Nov. 28-Dec. 1 found Trump had a 38% approval rating and 57% disapproval rating, the seventh straight week his net approval rating was -15 or lower (the survey has a margin of error of 3.2).<\/p>\n

In Trump\u2019s first term, his net approval rating never dipped to or below -15 for more than three consecutive weeks, YouGov noted. <\/p>\n

Biden had a -9 net approval rating at this point in his term and Trump had a -15 net approval rating at this point in his first term, according to Economist\/YouGov polling. <\/p>\n

41%. That\u2019s Trump\u2019s average approval rating so far during his second term, equal to his 41% average approval rating throughout the duration of his first term, according to Gallup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s overall average approval rating for his first and second terms (41%) is lower than all presidents dating back to Harry Truman, according to Gallup. Joe Biden had the next lowest average, 42%, followed by Truman (45%) and Jimmy Carter (46%).<\/p>\n

Federal immigration agents shot and killed protester Alex Pretti on Saturday in Minneapolis, weeks after Renee Good was killed by an ICE officer on Jan. 7, sparking nationwide protests and backlash from some Republicans. Some Trump officials sought to demonize Pretti and Good, accusing them of attacking federal agents despite video evidence contradicting their claims. Meanwhile, Trump has angered NATO allies with his push to take over Greenland. He threatened to impose steep tariffs on some NATO countries opposing the move, days before world leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, last week. He backed off the tariff threats after meetings in Davos, claiming he\u2019s reached a tentative deal with NATO to have \u201cfull access\u201d to Greenland, though details of the agreement remain murky. He also threatened military action in recent weeks against Iran as thousands of anti-regime protesters have been killed in demonstrations that broke out in December. Potential intervention in Iran comes after the U.S. military raided Maduro\u2019s compound in Caracas on Jan. 3 in an unprecedented series of attacks that toppled his regime, marking what\u2019s widely viewed as the most major action of Trump\u2019s term. Americans\u2019 persistent economic concerns have weighed heavily on his polling numbers. He launched an \u201caffordability tour\u201d in December designed to address cost-of-living concerns after Republican losses in November elections were widely viewed as a rebuke of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy. Trump has experienced several notable breaks with his MAGA base in recent months: The House approved legislation requiring the Justice Department to release documents detailing its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Trump endorsed the bill, despite initial resistance, as it became clear it had enough Republican support to pass. Other major moments of Trump\u2019s second term include the federal government reopening<\/a> Nov. 12 after a record-long 43-day shutdown as Democrats refused to back a Republican spending plan that didn\u2019t include an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. Trump also brokered a cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war that was announced in September and required Hamas to release its remaining hostages who were being held in Gaza, marking what\u2019s widely believed to be his most significant foreign policy achievement of his second term. In June, Congress approved his signature policy legislation<\/a> that will enact some of his most significant campaign promises, including an extension of his 2017 tax cuts and tighter border control. Trump\u2019s approval rating has declined since the start of his term, with a notable plunge coinciding with his wide-ranging \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs he announced on April 2 against nearly all U.S. trading partners, though he has largely backed off most of the levies. His efforts to slash the federal workforce<\/a> with the help of the then-Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency and his mass deportation push are two other controversial hallmarks of his administration that have prompted numerous legal actions and questions about the limitations of the executive branch\u2019s authority. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 27Trump\u2019s approval rating dropped to 45% in Morning Consult\u2019s latest survey, down from 46% last week, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,43,40,38,41,39,131402,131403],"class_list":{"0":"post-267409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-trump-approval-rating","16":"tag-trump-polls"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}