President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains low as voters seem frustrated with Trump’s August tariffs and his sweeping budget bill passed in early July.
An average of recent polls from the New York Times shows that his approval rating as of Aug. 14 is 44%, with 53% disapproving of his performance. This average has remained largely steady over the past month, but some individual polls have found his support dropping to near-record lows . That includes a new Pew Research Center poll , which found his approval rating at 38%.
In the past week, Trump has prepared to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine, he deployed hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to fight unsubstantiated crime , and a