{"id":2938,"date":"2025-12-20T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:01:48","slug":"trump-achieves-record-approval-rating-as-poll-shows-widespread-support-for-his-policies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/?p=2938","title":{"rendered":"Trump Achieves Record Approval Rating as Poll Shows Widespread Support for His Policies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an attempt to address trade imbalances and boost domestic industry, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum on Wednesday. Canada and Europe swiftly responded with billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump acknowledged in a recent speech to Congress that his presidency was getting off to a \u201cswift and unrelenting\u201d start. He talked about and defended many of his administration\u2019s contentious policies, including his ongoing crackdown on immigration and border control, his 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, his severe government cuts and mass layoffs, and his elimination of wokeness and diversity initiatives in the workforce and schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since taking office in this second term, Trump\u2019s job approval rating has averaged 46%, according to the most recent Gallup poll. His overall approval rating for his first term was 41%. His approval ratings thus far have ranged from 34% to 49% at any given point in both terms.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fre-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fre-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fre-1-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to address trade imbalances and boost domestic industry, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum on Wednesday. Canada and Europe swiftly responded with billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs. Trump acknowledged in a recent speech to Congress that his presidency was getting off to a \u201cswift and unrelenting\u201d start. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auditcops2026.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}