President Donald Trump speaks with journalists outside the White House in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2025.
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The confidence of the Americans in the capacity of President Donald Trump to manage the American economy has dropped since he found the White House, reveal new polls.
According to a Reuters / Ipsos survey, 37% of Americans approve of Trump’s management of Trump, a note below his first mandate.
A PEW Research Center survey also revealed on Wednesday that less than half of American adults, 45%, trust Trump’s ability to make “good decisions” on the economy.
This represents a drop of 14 points compared to the same survey in November of last year, when 59% of respondents said they had confidence in Trump’s economic decision -making,
On Wednesday, the pair of surveys follows an All-America CNBC economic survey published earlier this week which also recorded Trump’s weakest economic approval reports in the White House, with only 43% of Americans approving its management of the economy.
The plunge of the overall confidence of the Americans in the treatment by the president of the economy is particularly significant since Trump won the 2024 presidential election against the president of the time, Kamala Harris, on a platform for reducing inflation and revitalizing an economy that is still recovering from the coide.
But since he took office, Trump largely focused on the imposing, then stopping, then imposing prices, as opposed to his promised tax reductions and his deregulation.
The start -up rates have created uncertainty and sent the stock market to the concerns about the potential repercussions of a trade war.
About 59% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s radical prices on imported goods, the PEW Research Center Survey revealed.
There is still a partisan division of the confidence of the Americans in the management of the economy by Trump. Most Republicans, 80%, told Pew poll that they were “very” or “somewhat confident” in Trump’s ability to make good decisions concerning economic and tax policy. This is compared to only 11% of the Democrats who said the same thing.
While public confidence in Trump’s economic plan vacillates, its overall approval notes have also slipped.
About 42% of Americans approve of Trump’s professional performance, according to the Reuters / Ipsos survey carried out from April 16 to 21. It is down 47% during the days surrounding its inauguration.
Several other polls this week have revealed similar declines in the overall approval of Trump’s public: 44% of Americans approve of Trump management of the presidency in the CNBC survey, just like 40% of respondents of the PEW survey. This 40% approval reflects a drop of 7 points compared to February.
