Markets Volatile, Polls Show Decline: Trump's Initial Support Phase Shows Signs of Shifting
- An average of national polls shows that 47.9% of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump while 47.6% approve, marking his first negative approval rating since taking office, according to FiveThirtyEight.com.
- The Ipsos/Reuters poll reports Trump's disapproval rating at 51% and approval at 44%, indicating a negative gap of 7 points.
- Emerson College's poll shows a 48% approval rate for Trump against 43% disapproval, with concerns mainly focused on the economy at 41%.
- Pollster Harry Enten described Trump's overall net approval as 'historically awful', suggesting that negative ratings for both him and former President Joe Biden continued throughout their tenures.
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Rating Donald Trump's second term so far: He's rattling the cage and so many here in Pennsylvania couldn't be happier
In Pennsylvania - a key swing state that went for Donald Trump in the last election - voters tell Sky's Mark Stone the US president is 'doing real great'. For some though, there is real anxiety.
Capehart and Ponnuru on whiplash from Trump's trade war and the transatlantic alliance
Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and Ramesh Ponnuru, an editor for The National Review, join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including how President Trump's trade war is causing tensions for global markets, Elon Musk's power, Europe's actions on defense, the importance of NATO and California Gov. Gavin Newsom's view on transgender women and girls in sports.


Rattled markets, negative polls: Honeymoon over for Trump as White House return marred by economic challenges, high prices and Musk’s influence
WASHINGTON, March 8 — After only seven weeks back in the White House, President Donald Trump is facing stock markets roiled by his volatile trade policy, consumers exhausted by stubbornly high prices, and general unease about the power of his advisor Elon Musk. Musk’s efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy as the nominal head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with mass firings that have sparked legal battles, have created …
‘We Are Exhausted': Wall Street Fears a Trump Slump
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It’s been a week of searing reversals coming out of the White House, making it difficult to take anything it says at face value. The most conspicuous example of this was the nebulous state of President Donald Trump’s tariffs with Canada and Mexico, which seesawed over a matter of days from being unequivocally on, to mostl…
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