WASHINGTON (The Thursday Times) — US President Donald Trump’s approval rating held at 32% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday, one point above the lowest of his political career, with only 21% of Americans approving of how he is handling the cost of living.
The figure is unchanged from two Reuters/Ipsos polls taken between late October and early November. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in mid-October put his approval at 31%, the lowest of his career in politics.
The issues: 25% of respondents approved of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 38% approved of his immigration policy. Among Republicans, 81% backed his approach to immigration and 50% backed his approach to the cost of living.
The backdrop: concern over rising prices hurt Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections, in which Trump’s party lost control of both chambers of Congress. Some races are still undecided. The war on Iran, which Trump launched in February, has sharply raised fuel prices and weighed on household finances.
Trump has stepped up deportations since returning to the White House in January 2025, and last week named Stephen Miller, a key architect of those policies, as White House chief of staff.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online nationwide from November 6 to 9 and surveyed 1,705 US adults, with a margin of error of about 2 percentage points.
