Trump’s approval rating dips after rush of executive orders, poll finds

Trump’s approval rating dips after rush of executive orders, poll finds

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Trump’s approval rating dips after rush of executive orders, poll finds
Author: Guardian staff and writers
Published: Jan, 29 2025 16:23

Poll shows disapproval of immigration policies and Gulf of Mexico renaming. Donald Trump’s popularity has fallen somewhat as an early rush of executive orders – including renaming the Gulf of Mexico and attacking birthright citizenship – are fairly unpopular with Americans, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The Republican president has cracked down on immigration and attempted to radically gut the government, with respondents to the three-day poll – which closed on Sunday – expressing increasing disapproval. Overall, Reuters said, the poll showed 45% of Americans approve of Trump’s performance as president, down slightly from 47% a week before.

His disapproval rate was slightly larger at 46% – an increase from 39% the week before. The poll had a margin of error of about 4 percentage points. Trump’s first-term approval rating hit 49% after he began his term but fell to 34% following the January 6 insurrection.

Most Americans opposed ending the nation’s longstanding practice of granting citizenship to children born in the US even if neither parent has legal immigration status, the poll found. About 59% of respondents – including 89% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans – said they opposed ending birthright citizenship.

A federal judge last week temporarily blocked the Trump administration from making changes to birthright citizenship, but the White House has vowed to fight on. Seventy per cent of respondents oppose renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, an action Trump ordered on his first day in office. Only 25% of respondents supported the idea, with the rest unsure.

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