After multiple polls showed massive disapproval of Donald Trump’s first 100 days, the president invoked his favorite phrase, claiming they were all “fake news.”
Trump’s late-night meltdown on Truth Social began with a post a little before midnight and declared with no evidence that “The USA lost Billions of Dollars A DAY in International Trade under Sleepy Joe Biden. I have now stemmed that tide, and will be making a fortune, very soon. Stay tuned as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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He’s doing a lot of damage, she said, just not in the way he’s intending.
Two minutes later, he wrote, “The Polls from the Fake News are, like the News itself, FAKE! We are doing GREAT, better than ever before.”
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He followed up his rant with links to two articles: one from a pollster stating that the results of the major polls are skewed due to bias, and another from Fox Business claiming that Trump has been great for jobs and the economy.
Many strongly disagree.
CNN forecaster Harry Enten has been vocal about Donald Trump’s historically low approval ratings since his inauguration and recently demonstrated why Trump is the worst president in history on economic policy.
“The S&P has dropped the most under Trump for any president at this point in their presidency since the S&P 500 was in fact created back in 1957,” Enten said.
“And indeed,” he continued, “it is not anywhere close, folks. It’s not anywhere close. Under Trump, it’s dropped — get this — 14 percent.” He explained that the only other president who saw a drop of 5% or more at this point in their presidency was George W. Bush in 2001, and even then it was only 7 percent.
And polls across the country assessing Americans’ views of Trump’s first 100 days have shown an overwhelmingly dissatisfied public.
A Fox News poll showed Trump with an approval rating of 44%, a 5% reduction from the right-wing media outlet’s March poll. The poll also showed 71% of voters view the economy poorly and 55% say it’s getting worse for their family, The Hill reported. A separate poll from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill found 51.8% of respondents disapproving of Trump’s handling of the presidency.
A recent poll by the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research found that only 54% of Republicans surveyed said that Trump is focused on the “right priorities.” A recent New York Times/Siena College poll found that only 43% of voters approve of how Trump is handling the economy.
A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll gave Trump the lowest approval rating of any president’s first 100 days since 1945, ABC News reported. The poll showed 55% disapproving of how Trump is handling his job as president, with only 39% approving. The previous low was the 42% approval rating after Trump’s first 100 days in 2017.
Recent interviews with people who voted for Trump in 2024 found them disapproving of his handling of the economy, of the slashes in finances and staffing committed by the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and of his focus on attacking transgender rights and taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Republican strategist Brendan Buck recently said of Trump’s poor polling, “I certainly don’t think it’s going to get better for him anytime soon…. Tariffs are just getting started. This is only going to get worse… Maybe he’ll see some of this [polling] and realize that it shouldn’t, he shouldn’t go forward. But he’s not shown himself to be somebody who, you know, recalibrates.”
Also commenting on the polling, Politico’s politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin recently said, “These are self-inflicted wounds that Donald Trump has chosen… If he had not done DOGE [the Department of Government Efficiency] and Elon Musk, and if he had not done ‘Liberation Day’ in a tariff regime, think about where his numbers would be today.
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