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President Donald Trump has a 52% approval rating after his first month in office, according to the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris survey.
The poll showed that 33% of respondents strongly approved Trump's performance, while another 19% said they somewhat approved his first month in office. An estimated 43% disapproved, the majority of which claimed strong disapproval, while another 5% was undecided.
Trump's support varies significantly across party lines with about 9 in 10 Republicans approving and nearly 8 in 10 Democrats disapproving. Independents, however, were nearly split down the middle.
The White House shared an article claiming the poll showed "massive support for President Trump and his agenda," with the following data included:
- 81% support deporting criminal illegal immigrants.
- 76% support a “full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government.”
- 76% support closing the border with additional security and policies.
- 69% support keeping men out of women’s sports.
- 68% support government declaring there are only two genders.
- 65% support ending race-based hiring in government.
- 63% support “freezing and re-evaluating all foreign aid expenditures and the department that handled them.”
- 61% support reciprocal tariffs.
- 60% support direct U.S. negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
- 59% support cutting government spending already approved by Congress.
- 57% support ending the ban on new offshore drilling.
“This is a good start for Trump, though many of his policy initiatives are more popular [than] this,” said Mark Penn, the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, of Trump's approval rating during the first month of his second non-consecutive term. “So Americans are taking a wait and see approach with Trump having the potential to climb higher, especially as 58 percent believe he is doing a better job than [former President Joe] Biden.”