Donald Trump is losing the support of Americans on every major hot-button issue, and a majority now say the president’s second term has been a disaster in a damning new poll.
The CNN/SSRS poll found Trump’s approval rating underwater across the board, with 58 percent of adult respondents saying they view his return to office as a “failure.”
The poll also showed that Americans do not believe Trump is addressing their top concern of the economy and the cost-of-living crisis, and instead think his policies are making their financial hardships worse.
Backlash to Trump’s erratic second term—whose overall approval rating in the poll stands at a dire 39 percent—could spell broader trouble for Republicans heading into November’s midterm elections, where the GOP already faces an uphill battle to retain control of the House and potentially the Senate.
The CNN/SSRS poll of 1,209 adults found that a majority disapprove of Trump’s handling of every major issue facing voters, including those traditionally seen as his strengths. These include health care policy (63 percent disapprove), immigration (58 percent), and foreign affairs (60 percent).
On the economy—the most important issue for voters in virtually every election—only 39 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling.
More than half of Americans (55 percent) also believe Trump’s policies have “worsened” economic conditions in the country, while 62 percent disapprove of the president’s flagship tariffs.
Elsewhere, the poll found that 65 percent of Americans do not believe Trump is a president they can be “proud” of. More than two-thirds (68 percent) said the billionaire president is out of touch with the problems facing ordinary people.
“Even if he is doing some good in areas, he comes across very self-seeking and [shows] a lack of caring about the common good of our citizens,” wrote one independent respondent from Oklahoma.
More Americans also believe Trump has failed to follow through on many of the pledges he made at his January 2025 inauguration—and has instead actively made things worse.
That includes his promises to “restore safety to the U.S.” (39 percent say he made things worse), bring law and order back to American cities (42 percent), be a peacemaker and unifier (47 percent), and stop the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice (41 percent).
A majority of Americans (58 percent) also say Trump has gone too far in using the power of the presidency and the executive branch, as well as in reshaping cultural institutions such as the now MAGA-fied Kennedy Center (62 percent) and gutting federal programs (57 percent).
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