By Katherine Tinsley
12:59am PDT, Mar 18, 2025
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Donald Trump took a strong stance against illegal immigration and foreign imports, but Americans could be questioning his plan to "Make America Great Again."
"This would have been for [former Vice President Kamala] Harris, as well," Scott Tranter, who is the director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told
The Hill.
"Ever since 2016, the phenomenon is, it's not a Democrat or Republican thing. [People] just don't like the person in power," Tranter added.
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While the stock market plumets and the nation enters a trade war, Donald Trump continues to have a loyal fanbase.
"That has reverberations into the overall approval rating," Scott Tranter continued. "Still obviously a controversial figure, but he has expanded the people who are going to pretty much like him no matter what."
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The stockmarket's shocking decline could greatly impact Donald Trump's wealthier supporters.
"You're looking at the first real indicator of negativity in terms of the Wall Street move, primarily coming from a demographic that's a Trump-based demographic, which are men with money, and there's been a lot of anxiety and selling pressure in the stock market over the last week," director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center David Paleologos explained to The Hill.
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Aside from his economic plan, Donald Trump hoped to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, but his recent meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky resulted in the U.S. divesting it's financial support of the country.
"He said it on his campaign, 'I'm going to solve it.' … All this back-and-forth, all these talks, not solving it, that's a pretty black-and-white thing," Scott Tranter said.
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Along with the tension between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, the president has been taxing Mexican and Canadian goods. His public battle with Justin Trudeau and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has impacted diplomatic ties to the region.
"Icy exchanges on tariffs chill a longstanding friendship and voters make it clear they feel that's no way to treat our neighbors to the north," Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
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According to
The Hill, Donald Trump's approval rating is 45.6 percent approval and 49.8 percent disapproval. An
Emerson College Polling survey reported 48 percent of surveyed voters disapproved of Trump's economic plan, and a CNN poll found that 56 percent of participants don't like Trump's role in the market.
Trump's antics continue to spark controversy, but he continues to declare that he is ushering in the "golden age" of America.
His current approval rating is actually the highest it's ever been during his tenure as president.
