Our latest ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll finds that 39 percent of Americans approve of the job Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days in office, the lowest approval for any president at this point in their term in data going back to 1945. Economic discontent is extensive, with 73 percent saying the economy is in bad shape and 72 percent thinking it’s very or somewhat likely Trump’s policies will cause a recession in the short term.
In addition to coverage by ABC and the Post, results were picked up by USA Today (here and here), The New York Post, NBC, CNBC, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Politico, The Hill, Newsweek, Forbes, The Nation, The New Republic, Roll Call, Scripps News, Mother Jones, Letters from an American, Truthout, Katie Couric Media, Mediaite, Hollywood Unlocked, The New Zealand Herald, RBC-Ukraine, Kyiv Post and Business Times, among other outlets. Stephen Colbert gave it a shout-out. And we even made Roofing Contractor.
Separate analyses from the poll covered views on immigration, tariffs, Elon Musk and opinions on Trump’s proposals to take control of Canada and Greenland, serve a third term and send violent U.S. felons to foreign prisons. These results were covered by USA Today, The Guardian, Daily Herald, Vox, Politico (also here and here), Daily Kos, The Independent, The Philadelphia Tribune and The Hill (and here and here), among others.
Lastly, in a qualitative analysis of one-word reactions to the Trump presidency thus far, respondents offered everything from “outstanding” to “disaster.”
ABC covered the poll on World News Tonight, This Week and Good Morning America (also here and here), on ABCNews.com and on its news podcast Start Here, here and here.