{"id":32916,"date":"2025-02-09T20:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/new-poll-shows-what-americans-think-of-trumps-performance-in-second-term\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:36:17","slug":"new-poll-shows-what-americans-think-of-trumps-performance-in-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/new-poll-shows-what-americans-think-of-trumps-performance-in-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"New poll shows what Americans think of Trump’s performance in second term"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> has started his second stint in the White House by earning positive reviews from Americans, with especially high marks given for the president keeping campaign promises.<\/p>\n

A large majority of Americans, 70%, believe Trump is doing “what he promised” during the campaign, while just 30% believe the president\u2019s agenda has been “different from promised,” according to the results of a CBS\/YouGov poll <\/a>released on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The poll found that Trump\u2019s overall approval on the job so far is 53%, with 47% of respondents indicating they disapprove. Voters also used positive words to describe the president, with 69% describing him as tough, 63% energetic, 60% focused, and 58% effective.<\/p>\n

Many Americans also approve of the job Trump has done so far on key issues, with 59% saying they approve of his program to deport illegal immigrants<\/a>, while 41% said they do not approve. A larger majority, 64%, indicated they approve of the president\u2019s plan to send U.S. troops to the U.S-Mexico border, while 36% disapprove.<\/p>\n

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A majority also responded that they approve of Trump\u2019s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict,<\/a> with 54% of Americans saying they approve, compared with 46% who disapprove. However, Americans are less sure about the president\u2019s proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza following the war, with just 13% responding that it is a “good idea,” while 47% say it is a “bad idea” and 40% marked that they were not sure.<\/p>\n

A slimmer majority approved of Elon Musk<\/a> and DOGE, with 23% of Americans indicating that they believe the new agency should have “a lot” of influence over government spending and 28% answering that it should have “some,” for a total of 51%. Meanwhile, 18% replied that DOGE should have “not much” influence over government spending and 31% said it should have “none,” for a total of 49%.<\/p>\n

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But Trump did score some lower marks when it came to his economic agenda, most notably on his efforts to tackle inflation, with 66% indicating the president has not committed enough attention to lowering prices, while 31% believe Trump has focused on the issue the “right amount” and 3% indicated the president has focused “too much” on the issue.<\/p>\n

Americans were split when it comes to tariffs, with 56% offering approval of such levies to China, while only 44%, 40%, and 38% felt similarly about tariffs on Mexico, Europe and Canada, respectively.<\/p>\n

The CBS\/YouGov poll was conducted between Feb. 5-7, surveying 2,175 U.S. adults. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has started his second stint in the White House by earning positive reviews from Americans, with especially high marks given for the president keeping campaign promises. A large majority of Americans, 70%, believe Trump is doing “what he promised” during the campaign, while just 30% believe the president\u2019s agenda has been “different … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}