Trump approval ratings underwater despite positive border security numbers

Four months after his second tour at the White House, President Donald Trump’s approval categories are still slightly underwater.

The president occupies the approval of 46 % and 54 % rejected in a new national investigative study conducted by the Market College of law. Trump is 42 % and 52 % rejected in a Reuters/Ipsus poll.

Most national investigative studies, but not all, put the president’s approval classification in negative lands, with a bunch indicating that Trump is above water.

Trump strongly emphasized the executive authority during his second term, and turned the long -term government policy and aims to conduct significant discounts for the federal workforce through an ice collapse of comprehensive and controversial executive orders and executive measures, with some of them aimed at addressing the grievances that he occupied since his first term.

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Trump began his second administration with a survey numbers in positive lands, but his survey numbers started to slide shortly after his inauguration in late January.

But two issues in which the president remains in the water or above it in some investigative studies: border security and migration, which was in the forefront and center in the successful Trump campaign for the year 2024 to strengthen the White House.

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Trump gets 56 % approval of border security and approval by 50 % for immigration in the Market Faculty Series, which was conducted from 5 to 15 May.

But Trump’s muscle movements on border security and migration, which sparked controversy and legal decline, do not seem to help in his comprehensive approval classifications.

“Immigration is now declining as a prominent issue,” said Darwin Show, who is a member of the Fox News Decision Team, the Republican partner in the Fox News poll.

“Immigration, especially border security, began to lose Steam as one of the three best issues facing the country. Republicans still reside in them significantly, but Democrats and independents, who joined a kind of stalemate in 2024, moved in particular to the economy as a pivotal point,” said Shaw, a professor of politics and its president at the University of Texas.

Referring to Trump, Shaw added that “when you have success in an issue, it tends to move to the back stove.”

The shareholder in the past two months in Trump’s comprehensive approval categories was his performance in the economy, especially inflation, which was canceling issues that kept the former president Joe Biden Approval categories are much lower than water for most of his presidency.

The Trump tariff declaration in early April sparked a trade war with some of the country’s major trading partners and sparked huge sales in financial markets and increased concerns about stagnation.

President Donald Trump announces the implementation of definitions of countries around the world during an event at the White House on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smaliowski/AFP via Getty Images)

But the markets have flourished, and thanks to this is a truce between the United States and China in the face of the customs tariff, as Trump took advantage of the brake to implement my controversial definition.

Trump reached 37 % on the definitions and 34 % on inflation/living cost in the Market Faculty Survey. 39 % stood on the economy and 33 % on the cost of living in the Reuters/Ipsus poll, which was conducted from 16 to 18 May.

Doug Hai, a strategic expert in the Republican Party for a long time and a former RNC and Bush administration, noted last year, saying: “The main reason Trump has won is low prices. Prices have not decreased, and opinion polls reflect this.”

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“With the exception of gas prices, there was not much low prices,” said Shu.

“Prices have not decreased, and it is not clear that people will say that the absence of inflation is an economic victory. They still feel that a tangible part of their money will pay for the basic things.” “What Trump realizes is that the prices must decrease so that he can declare success.”