As President Donald Trump approaches the day 100 of his second presidency, the surveys show that Americans largely disapprove of their management of the economy, tariffs and the recent agitation of the stock market.
But their 2024 voters say to a large extent that they still trust their management of the economy, and overwhelmingly support their vote for Trump.
“I think Trump will change things; I’m glad she is president,” said Jessianna Bartier, 53, from Ohio. “With Biden, I felt that there was so much waste. I was causing a lot of economically damage,” he said, and felt depressed by the former president’s efforts. “Trump has definitely done his job for him.”
According to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey, only 39% of Americans approve how Trump has managed the economy; Less approve of their handling of tariffs on imported goods or recent agitation of the stock market. Seventy -one percent of Americans said that Trump tariffs will contribute to inflation in the United States, although 59% think tariffs will create more manufacturing jobs.
President Donald Trump participates in the Juramentation Ceremony for Paul Atkins, president of the Bag and Securities Commission in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on April 22, 2025.
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But among the Americans who voted for Trump in 2024, 87% approve how they are handling the economy, while 78% approves their fees management. 71% softer said they approve its management of recent agitation in the stock market.
In addition, between 2024 Trump voters, 74% think that their economic policies will put the US economy in a more solid long -term base; At the same time, 45% of these voters think that it is very likely that their economic policies cause a short -term recession.
An overwhelming 96% of those who voted for Trump believe how they voted was right.
Bartier, a former hostess, now works as a cantinero and lives in Ohio. She said she used to be a Democrat, but became a Republican when “he began to dating more mature men.” She said she has always voted because “my voice matters.”
Bartier said his family is fighting financially at this time, because his fiance lost his work and his own income “is not enough.”
But it is optimistic that Trump can strengthen the economy.
She has feelings found about Trump on some issues, saying that she appreciates her border repression, but she disagrees with her views about LGBTQ problems and abortion.
“(Trump) is going to do what he is going to do. It’s a kind of dishonest agent.”
But in tariffs, he said that he feels that at first they can cause challenges, but that they will be effective later, although the recent agitation of the stock market gives him a pause.
A general view shows container terminal in Hong Kong, China, April 23, 2025.
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“I think that the rates, in the short term, will hurt us economically; but in the long term, [they’re] I will bring the works back to the United States, “he said. He acknowledged feeling insecure of how the tariff news affected the actions:” Do I like to see that the Dow falls on himself? No.”
“[Trump’s] I’m going to do what you are going to do. It is a kind of dishonest agent, “Bartier added.
Anthony Romano, 64, a retired shopping agent who lives alone in Philadelphia, said he feels positive about Trump but has some concerns about the stock market.
“In general, I think he is doing a very good job,” Romano said, but added that “it seems that the stock market has crashed, it will make people a lot of stress.”
The actions have fluctuated following what some experts described as continuous uncertainty about the Policies and Tariffs of the White House. The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, told “This Week” of ABC on Sunday that the White House is “establishing the foundations for a strong dollar, a strong economy, a strong stock market.”
Merchants work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, on April 23, 2025.
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Romano said he still trusts the president, citing Trump’s experience as a businessman.
“I have my confidence in him; he knows what he is doing,” he said.
Another of Trump’s voters who took the survey, Deborah Williams, 71, from Nevada, is considered an independent policy and said that he has just retired from administering a business at home. Her husband, 78, has a part -time job and earns a minimum wage.
She said she is watching the economy, especially given her decreased income, and is “cautious about where I am spending my money these days”, even with trips.
“I want the United States to be the hard child in the block again … Trump is my man for doing so.”
In the rates, she has found feelings. He worries that they could affect prices and can be done with too much quantity, but called Trump’s philosophy behind them “a noble idea.”
“I want the United States to be the hard child in the block,” Williams said, and does not want to think that Americans should pay or subsidize the expenses of other countries. “Trump is my man to do that right now,” he said, and added later, “he has the opportunity to unite our economy playing hard with some of these people we import.”
The survey only asks the respondents of their names; Some respondents contacted by ABC News refused to share their last name.
Irene, 63, who works for the library and the local government in a city in northern New Jersey, told ABC News that she has feelings found on how the Trump administration has implemented tariffs.
“It’s just that, maybe he leaves a little overboard or too fast with all this. And tariffs will affect much more than they were originally.”
“I am a bit favorable for rates, because I think the different countries have taken advantage of us,” he said. “It’s just that, maybe he leaves a little overboard or too fast with all this. And tariffs will affect much more than they were originally.”
He has not yet felt any impact on his family’s finances. When asked what to see in the White House in the future, he said he expected the economy that the United States had during the first Trump administration.
The avocados imported from Mexico are on sale in a grocery store in New York on April 8, 2025.
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“I look back when I was in the office the first four years, and I felt that the economy was in a better way,” he said, mentioning interest rates and gasoline prices. “I hope we could get somewhere towards that point.”
He also told the survey that he feels that a recession is something likely, and hopes not affecting the work he has or his finances.
“But I am at the point where I am trying to reach a better financial position, in case the recession happens, it will not hit me so hard,” he said.
That has not caused him to rethink how he voted for Trump in November: “I am still behind my vote because I definitely did not have a good feeling about the Democrats,” he said.
The ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey was held online through the probability Ipsos KnowledgePanel® from April 18 to 22, 2025, in English and Spanish, between a random national sample of 2,464 adults. Party divisions are 30%-30%-29%, indicators of democrats-republican.
The results have an error margin of more or less 2 percentage points, including the design effect. Error margins are larger for subgroups. The sampling error is not the only source of differences in surveys.
See the details about the ABC news survey methodology here.
Gary Langer and Christine Filler of ABC News contributed to this report.
