{"id":77627,"date":"2026-08-19T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trumps-approval-rating-plummets-to-new-low-ahead-of-critical-midterms-more-work-to-do\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:55:38","slug":"trumps-approval-rating-plummets-to-new-low-ahead-of-critical-midterms-more-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/trumps-approval-rating-plummets-to-new-low-ahead-of-critical-midterms-more-work-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s approval rating plummets to new low ahead of critical midterms: ‘More work to do’"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump’s<\/a> approval rating has plummeted to a record low during his second term in office and is now tied for his lowest approval rating ever as commander in chief, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n

Only 33% of those surveyed in a new Reuters\/Ipsos poll approve of the 45th and 47th president’s job in the White House. The rating is down from 35% last week. A survey of 1,166 respondents showed that 64% disapproved of Trump’s job performance.<\/p>\n

Trump hit 33% approval in December 2017, his lowest during his first term in office, according to Reuters\/Ipsos.<\/p>\n

FOX NEWS POLL: AS ECONOMIC PAIN DEEPENS, DISAPPROVAL OF TRUMP HITS NEW HIGH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, 80% of survey respondents said they expect the war in Iran<\/a> “will go on for an extended period of time.”<\/p>\n

The war began in February and was explained to Americans as a mission to wipe out the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear weapons program<\/a>. Iranian attempts to assert dominance over the Strait of Hormuz have complicated matters.<\/p>\n

One fifth of the world’s oil traverses the Strait, and the effects have been felt at the pump.<\/p>\n

LAWMAKERS CLASH OVER TRUMP GAS TAX HOLIDAY AS IRAN WAR DRIVES PRICES HIGHER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Since the war began, national average gas prices<\/a> have jumped from just under $3 per gallon to just over $4 per gallon, according to American Automobile Association (AAA) data. On Friday, at a rally with law enforcement in New York touting record low crime rates, Trump defended the jump in prices at the pump.<\/p>\n

“Remember that when you have to pay a little bit more, $4, it\u2019s OK,” he said, adding that he did “the right thing,” and saying, “I’ll never apologize.”<\/p>\n

Inflation<\/a> has also spiked since the beginning of the war. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), year-over-year inflation in February was 2.4%. That number now sits at 3.4%.<\/p>\n

TRUMP\u2019S AFFORDABILITY PLAN FACES CONSERVATIVE PUSHBACK AS POCKETBOOK ISSUES LOOM OVER MIDTERMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“President Trump has signed the largest middle-class tax cuts in history, lowered the cost of prescription drugs, sealed the border, driven violent crime to the lowest level in nearly a century, unleashed an energy revolution and sent Americans\u2019 401(k)s climbing to record highs,” White House spokesperson<\/a> Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital in response to questions about the polling.<\/p>\n

“President Trump is cleaning up Joe Biden\u2019s mess, and there is more work to do, but the United States of America has never been stronger,” she continued.<\/p>\n

The White House did not comment on whether there is a target date for ending the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democrats have seized on the war, which only 35% of Americans support, according to Reuters\/Ipsos<\/a>, along with affordability in their attempts to retake the House and Senate in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has plummeted to a record low during his second term in office and is now tied for his lowest approval rating ever as commander in chief, according to a new poll. Only 33% of those surveyed in a new Reuters\/Ipsos poll approve of the 45th and 47th president’s job in … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77627","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=77627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}