Trump approval rating back underwater after surge

For a very brief moment, Donald Trump enjoyed an approval rating that was above water.

Unfortunately, the moment was fleeting, as the latest polls have him again underwater, but not horribly so. 

Trump Day One Executive Orders

Trump did just as he said he would when he was campaigning... he issued a slew of executive actions on his first day in office.

Trump declared an emergency at the border, which would open up some emergency powers for his office and access to certain funds that Trump would not otherwise have access. Among the immigration orders was to relaunch the "Remain in Mexico" policy from his first administration.

Trump also ended all DEI programs or started the wheels in motion to have them ended, something he vowed to do in order to battle the "woke" policies of the Biden administration.

Some of the more controversial orders involved a hiring freeze for federal workers and ending the Biden administration's work-from-home policies.

Rising Approval Rating

Trump's approval rating during his first term was usually below 50% because Democrat voters rarely, if ever, approved of anything he did.

Democrats did a very good job of painting the bad orange man as a sexist, racist Nazi who was a danger to the country.

This time around, voters loved what they saw the first few weeks of the Trump administration, with Trump's approval rating floating around 50 to 51% the entire time. Trump was above water for three successive polls, something I cannot remember ever happening during the first term of his presidency.

Then Democrats went on the attack, refueling many of the attacks they used against Trump during his first term in office, and now it seems as though those attacks are starting to work.

Taking on Water

While Trump enjoyed an early surge, his approval rating in the latest Quinnipiac poll has dipped to some familiar ground, with Trump now underwater.  The new numbers have Trump at a 45% approval rating and a 51% disapproval rating, which is not good news. A recent Reuters poll also had Trump underwater at 44-51.

However, the dip has not stopped Trump from running this White House at a frenetic pace, as he continues to claim they are achieving great things over the first 30 days in office. What I think is hurting Trump is an overpromise during the campaign, when Trump said he would bring down grocery prices on day one.

I warned against this, and with 100 million chickens having to be destroyed during the tail end of the Biden administration, that promise could never be fulfilled. Democrats stood silent for four years about groceries, but now they and their influencers are hammering the price of eggs in particular, and people appear to be buying it.

This is exactly why I stated that Trump was making promises he could not possibly fulfill early in the administration, so now we need to hope this disappointment is short-lived, or 2026 and 2028 are going to be damaging elections for the GOP. I am far from panicking, as he clearly has time to get this going, but this is a sign that the leash given to Trump by voters is not quite as long as we thought it would be, given the failures of the Democrat Party over the last four years.