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Trump’s approval ratings 2026: Everything you need to know

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Beside being popular and the most searched person on the internet, US President Trump’s approval rating Sinks to lowest point of his second term as revealed by a latest report.

Amid rising discontent over the economy and the Iran war, President Donald Trump's second term approval rating reached a new low in a survey that could be a significant warning for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

As reported by USA Today, citing  NBC News report overall, 37% of adults approve of Trump’s performance as president, while 63% disapprove — including 50% who said they disapprove strongly — putting his job rating at the lowest point of his second term in NBC News Decision Desk polling.

Two-thirds of respondents also disapproved of Trump’s handling of inflation and the Iran conflict.

The NBC News Decision Desk poll, released April 19, found that 63% of adults disapprove of Trump’s performance as president

Experts weigh that's his lowest mark from the outlet since he retook office in January 2025. Another 37% of adults said they approve of Trump.

The poll was conducted March 30 to April 13 among a national sample of 32,433 adults ages 18 and over. The margin of error is ± 1.8 percentage points.

The downturn in the president's job approval is largely attributable to souring opinions about the state of the nation's economy and the progression of the United States' joint war on Iran, according to the outlet.

The poll also found that approximately two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Trump’s war campaign in Iran.

Notably, the news outlet reported on Sunday that this percentage did not change significantly even after the US government announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran earlier in April. The agreement is set to expire this week.

The NBC results also suggest that Trump is beginning to lose his voter base. The number of Republicans who approve of Trump’s performance on inflation sank by 10 percentage points (from 83 to 73 percent) since last summer

The poll also found that overall support for the president dropped by four percentage points (from 87 to 83 percent) among his Republican support in just two months.

Inflation has taken a toll across the country: 40 percent of the NBC poll respondents said their personal finances were worse today than a year ago. That’s the highest response to that question of any poll by the network during Trump’s second term.

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonprofit and nonpartisan data research and distribution organization at Syracuse University, over 60,000 people are being detained by ICE as of April 4.

About 70 percent of those detainees have no criminal convictions. Meanwhile, the number of immigrants who have died while in ICE custody has reached a record-high.

Since last October, 29 people have died, according to NPR, exceeding the previous annual record.

Addtionally, the poll suggests that with midterm elections coming up this fall, continuous drops in Trump’s approval ratings could impact key races across the country if Americans see them as a referendum on the failures of his administration.

Moreover, the NBC News Decision Desk latest Poll powered by SurveyMonkey surveyed 32,433 adults online from March 30-April 13 that may be inaccurate and percentages may vary.


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