About 4 in 10 Americans say Trump is a ‘terrible’ president amid sinking approval: Survey

A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 Americans say President Trump has been a “terrible” leader in his second term.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that about 2 in 10 said they think he has done an average job in his presidency, and 3 in 10 said he’s been a great or good president.

The poll also found that 24 percent of adults believed Trump is focused on the right priorities.

Among respondents, 44 percent said Trump has focused on the wrong priorities, 21 per percent said an even mix and 10 percent didn’t know.

The low numbers reflects polls across the country that have measured a dip in the 47th president’s favorability and approval ratings. 

Opinions vastly differed for respondents based on party affiliation.

Republicans overwhelmingly agreed with the president’s decisions during his first few months back in the Oval Office.

More than half, 54 percent, of GOP members surveyed said he’s focused on the right tasks, 26 percent said he’s targeting an even mix of issues and 13 percent said he has the wrong priorities.

“He’s really doing the stuff that he said he was going to do,” Tanner Bergstrom, a 29-year-old Republican from Minnesota, told The Associated Press.

He added that Trump is “not making a bunch of promises and getting into office and nothing happens.”

“I really like that. Even if it’s some stuff I don’t agree with, it’s still doing what he said he was going to do,” Bergstrom said.

Democrats largely leaned away from those views: 75 percent of party members said they think Trump has the wrong priorities and 11 percent said he has an even mix of good and bad.

”It really seems like he is doing everything he can to make the wrong decisions,” Gabriel Antonucci, a 26-year-old Democrat who resides in South Carolina, told the AP. “Things are probably going to be worse in four years than they are right now,” he continued.

Additionally, 42 percent of independents said Trump has the wrong priorities, 30 percent said an even mix, 9 percent believed he has the right priorities while 19 percent said they don’t know.

The AP-NORC poll surveyed 1,260 adults from 17-21, using a probability-based method from AmeriSpeak. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.