Newsweek, June 2025
President Donald Trump‘s net approval rating has plummeted to the lowest level of his second term in two recent polls. CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Friday that the latest Quinnipiac University and Associated Press-NORC polls, which had Trump’s approval rating at 38 and 39 percent respectively, were “awful, awful, awful” for the president.
Why It Matters
Several recent polls have found Trump’s approval rating remains stuck in negative territory. The latest numbers suggest Americans largely disapprove of Trump’s handling of protests in Los Angeles over his stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. The two polls were conducted between June 5 and 9, during which time protests in LA prompted Trump to deploy roughly 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the city.
What To Know
The latest June polling by Quinnipiac University found just 38 percent approve of the job Trump is doing, while 54 percent disapprove. In the university’s April 9 poll, 41 percent approved, while 53 percent disapproved. The latest survey was conducted among 1,265 self-identified registered voters from June 5 to June 9 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. Meanwhile, the latest AP-NORC found 39 percent had a positive view of the job Trump is doing, while 60 percent disapproved of his leadership so far. The survey was conducted between June 5 and 9 among 1,158 adults, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The AP-NORC poll in May found 41 percent approved of Trump’s job performance, and 57 percent disapproved. Enten said that Trump’s approval rating on the issue of immigration has dropped six points in the past two weeks, according to CNN‘s aggregate. “The only thing that’s happened over the last two weeks is obviously Donald Trump’s ramped up immigration hawkish agenda. And at least at this particular point, the American people are saying, ‘No, we do not like that.”
