Donald Trump's popularity plunges to all-time low as approval rating dips. Why is U.S. President becoming so unpopular?

Donald Trump's overall popularity has fallen sharply with 40 per cent of respondents in the poll saying they approve of his White House performance, holding at the lowest level of his current administration for three straight polls going back to late July. Trump's popularity has waned since his return to power in January, when 47 per cent of Americans gave him a thumbs up. The Republican is overwhelmingly backed by members of his party and overwhelmingly disliked by Democrats. About two-thirds of independents disapprove of him, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Few Americans outside President Donald Trump's Republican Party support his deployment of National Guard troops to police the streets of Washington, D.C., according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. The three-day poll, which concluded on Sunday, found that just 38 per cent of Americans support using troops for law enforcement in the U.S. capital, with 46 per cent opposed. The rest were unsure or declined to answer the question.

Support was strongest among Republicans, 76 per cent of whom supported the deployments, which just 8 per cent of Democrats supported. Among people who don't identify with either party, 28 per cent were in favor and 51 per cent were opposed.


He has aggressively pursued his second-term agenda, ordering a crackdown on unauthorized immigration and a series of trade wars with other nations while he has aimed the federal justice system at his political opponents.

Earlier this month, Trump ordered National Guard troops to help police Washington, D.C., where the Democratic Party dominates local politics, and has threatened to do the same with other major cities run by Democrats. The move, which also included a federal takeover of policing in the capital, follows years of criticism from Trump that Democrats are soft on crime.

Just 36 per cent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, including 8 per cent of Democrats and 71 per cent of Republicans - said they supported federal officials bringing the capital's local police under federal control.

Hundreds of unarmed National Guard troops have been on Washington's streets for the past two weeks after Trump declared a crime emergency in the district. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week authorized the troops to carry weapons.

Both federal and city crime statistics show violent crime has declined precipitously since a spike in 2023 but Washington remains among the country's most violent places.

Democrats, including Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, have said the deployment was more about politics than about crime. Troops have been seen mostly in the city's safest areas frequented by tourists.

Trump's approval rating on crime - at 43 per cent - is among the strongest areas of his public opinion portfolio, matching the share that approves of his immigration policies.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll gathered responses from 1,022 U.S. adults nationwide and had a 3 percentage point margin of error for all respondents. Its margin of error for Republicans and Democrats was 6 points, and 5 points for people who identify with neither party.

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