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Donald Trump’s disapproval rating shot up following his first week as president as his administration ushered through a series of executive orders cracking down on immigration and beginning to fulfill MAGA pledges.
As Trump’s administration carried out immigration raids in cities across the U.S., and the president signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship (which has since been held up by a federal judge), the president’s disapproval rating increased by five percent, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump’s disapproval rating jumped to 46 percent in the latest poll that closed Sunday, up from 39 percent on the day he took office, according to two separate Reuters/Ipsos polls.
The day Trump took office 47 percent of Americans approved of his performance as president, according to the poll. But in the second poll ending Sunday, his approval rating dipped to 45 percent.
By comparison, when Joe Biden entered office in January 2021 his approval rating was 57 percent and held steady after his first week as president, according to Gallup.
Biden’s disapproval went from 37 percent when he entered office to 40 percent in mid-February 2021, the poll found. Barack Obama’s approval rating was 68 percent when he entered office in 2009, while his disapproval rating was 12 percent.
Trump was more popular when he began his second term than he was at the same time in 2017 at the start of his previous administration.
When Trump first entered office in January 2017, his approval rating was 40 percent.
He enjoyed an approval bump during his first few weeks to 49 percent, but the rating dropped to 34 percent by the end of his first term following the January 6 Capitol riots.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that most Americans are opposed to ending birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. even if neither parent has legal immigration status.
A majority of 59 percent of Americans have said they oppose ending birthright citizenship.
The executive order ending birthright citizenship was temporarily blocked last week by a federal judge. District Judge John Coughenour, who ruled in a lawsuit brought by several states seeking to overturn Trump’s order, delivered a blistering criticism of the president’s “blatantly unconstitutional” action from the bench in a Seattle courtroom last Thursday.
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” said the Ronald Reagan appointee.
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