It Depends On Who You Ask

At the end of April Donald Trump will have completed 100 days of his second term in office.

How is he doing?

It depends on who you ask.

I was struck by the wide variation in President Trump's approval rating in several polls released this week.

Trump's net approval varies from +8 in the Daily Mail polling to -12 with Quinnipiac.

Source: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

It does really depend on who you ask and apparently who is doing the asking.

For perspective, the Daily Mail polling shows Trump with the highest net approval he has ever had.

Bear in mind that this poll was also taken after all of the tariff and stock market chaos.

This poll was also taken after all the media exposure of the illegal immigrant and MS-13 gang member who lived in Maryland that was deported to an El Salvador prison with a federal judge and Democrats arguing the man should be returned to the United States.

The positive approval that Trump has is clearly centered on the level of support that his policies have with the American people.

That is most apparent by looking at the % of voters who support different policies that Trump is advancing.

First, look at the change in the percent of voters who favor deporting all illegal immigrants from 2016 to 2025 as reported by The Washington Post.

Only 36% of voters favored deporting all illegals in 2016. It is now 56%.

While Trump's overall approval is +2 in the Harvard Harris poll but the support for his policies is much higher.

Immigration continues to be Trump's signature issue as seen in the support for total deportation of every illegal in the WP poll above.

Further, in the Harvard Harris poll 74% support in the deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes.

70% support closing the border.

Source: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2025/HHP_APRIL_Final.pdf

There is also strong support (57%+) approval for finding and eliminating fraud and waste in government spending (DOGE), banning men who have undergone sex change operations from competing in women's sports, declaring there are only two genders, freezing foreign aid and placing reciprocal tariffs on countries that have tariffs on U.S. goods.

In fact, the only issue that Trump has championed on the list that does not have at least 50% support is renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

One thing is sure about Trump's first 100 days.

It has been a period of unprecedented activity.

A recent CNN poll suggests that there are also very few Trump voters who regret their vote based on what he is doing.

Link: https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1912516580748960144

There has been little that Trump campaigned on that he has not acted on.

For example, look at the southwest border.

In March, there were only 11,000 border encounters by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

That is down from around 100,000 per month in the last three months of 2024 and from around 200,000 per month in March, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Source: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

Joe Biden and the Democrats stated repeatedly that it was impossible to stop the flow of illegals into the country without Congressional action.

It was a lie.

All it took was a change in leadership and the will to enforce existing laws.

Trump's unprecedented activity has also been met with unprecedented actions by activist left-leaning judges that have ruled time and time again against almost every policy that Trump has instituted.

For example, in the entire history of the United States, federal judges have only issued around 180 nationwide injunctions against the President of the United States.

These were almost unknown until the last several decades. 127 of the 180 were since 1963.

However, 64 universal injunctions were issued against Trump in his first term and 30 so far in his second term.

Think about it. 

About half of all nationwide injunctions ever issued by the courts since 1787 just so happen to have targeted Donald Trump.

However, Joe Biden openly defied a Supreme Court ruling that the President did not have the authority to cancel student loan debt and bragged about it.

Were any injunctions issued against any of Biden's student loan debt cancellations?

Link: https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1777404435544649895

In addition, were there any nationwide injunction issued as Joe Biden subverted the laws of the United States and flew hundreds of thousand of unvetted migrants directly into the country?

More than 500,000 otherwise inadmissible migrants were flown into the United States and given parole to stay for up to two years from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela by the Biden administration without any evidentiary hearing or fact-finding about their eligibility.

However, one federal judge blocks Trump from deporting the same migrants back to their home countries?

The guy frames it all rather well on X.

One unelected judge can subvert the executive authority of a duly elected President who had the support of over 77 million voters?

This is what our system of justice has become?

How is Trump doing in his first 100 days?

It really does depend on who ask, doesn't it?