Trump approval ratings under water despite a positive border security figure

Four months after his second business trip in the White House, President Trump's approval reviews remain slightly under water.

The president is in a new national survey by Marquette Law School with an approval of 46% and a rejection of 54%. And Trump has an approval of 42% and a rejection of 52% in a survey by Reuters/Ipsos.

Most, but not all of the latest national surveys, put the president's approval rate in a negative area, with a handful that Trump is over water.

During his second term, Trump aggressively asserted the executive authority, lifted the longstanding government policy and aimed to take considerable cuts through an avalanche of comprehensive and controversial orders and actions that he has held since his first term.

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Trump began his second administration with the number of polls in a positive area, but his pay numbers began to slide shortly after his inauguration in late January.

Two topics in which the President remains in some surveys are border security and immigration that were in Trump's successful campaign from 2024 to regain the White House, at the front and at the center.

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Trump stands for border security and 50% of the approval for immigration in the survey of the Marquette Law School, which was carried out from May 5th to 15th.

But Trump's muscular movements in relation to border security and immigration that have triggered controversy and legal setbacks do not seem to help his general admission reviews.

“Immigration decreases today as an outstanding topic,” said Daron Shaw, who works as a member of the Fox News' decision team and is a Republican partner of the FOX news survey.

Shaw, a political professor and chairman at the University of Texas, said: “Immigration and especially border security lose steam as one of the top three topics with which the country is confronted. The Republicans still rate them quite high, but Democrats and independent who somehow joined the chorus 2024 and especially in economy as a focus.”

Shaw pointed to Trump and added: “If you are successful in a topic, it goes to move into the background.”

In the past few months at Trump's general approval ratings, his performance on the economy and especially in inflation, which had urgent problems that held the former president Joe Biden's Admission reviews for most of its presidency significantly under water.

Trump's blockbuster tariff announcement at the beginning of April triggered a trade war with some of the best trading partners in the country and triggered a massive sale on the financial markets and increased the concerns about recession.

President Donald Trump announces the implementation of tariffs in countries around the world during an event of the White House on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

But the markets recovered, partly thanks to a ceasefire between the United States and China in their tariff patt, when Trump typed his controversial tariff implementation on the brakes.

Trump was 37% approved for tariffs and 34% for inflation/living costs in the survey of the Marquette Law School. And it was up to 39% of the economy and 33% for the cost of living in the Reuters/Ipsos survey, which was carried out from May 16 to May 18.

Doug Heye, a long -standing GOP strategist and former RNC and Bush management officer, pointed out the election of last year and said: “The main reason why Trump won was the lower prices. The prices did not reduce and the surveys reflect this.”

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“With the exception of gas prices, there were no large price cuts,” said Shaw.

“The prices have not dropped, and it is not clear that people will say that the lack of inflation is an economic victory. They still have the feeling that a significant part of their money will pay for basic things,” he added. “What Trump recognizes is that the prices have dropped for him to explain success.”