Correction & clarification: This opinion column has updated poll percentages on trade.

Anyone who saw Donald Trump rally his supporters for reelection heard him make sweeping promises on three key pillars of his campaign ‒ improving the economy, deporting undocumented immigrants and penalizing other countries with tariffs.

Five months into his second term as president, Americans are deeply unsatisfied with how Trump has handled those three issues, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday, June 26.

Immigrants have been Trump's favorite boogeymen for a solid decade, ever since he declared his first run for president in 2015. And he found supporters by demonizing undocumented immigrants, winning elections in 2016 and 2024.

But now that Trump holds the power to deport those immigrants, as he repeatedly promised, Americans appear to be repulsed by what that looks like.

Turn on any television news broadcast or open any social media platform. You'll see

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