President Donald Trump, the consummate showman, is shining a spotlight on his primetime address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n
\u2018TOMORROW NIGHT WILL BE BIG. I WILL TELL IT LIKE IT IS!,\u2019 the president touted in a social media post on Monday ahead of his first major speech to Congress during his second presidential administration.<\/p>\n
As Trump prepares for his address, he\u2019s in a stronger polling position than where he found himself eight years ago when he first entered the White House.<\/p>\n
A national survey released Monday by Marist College for PBS News and NPR indicated Trump at 45% approval and 49% disapproval. And a survey from CNN released on Sunday put the president\u2019s approval rating at 48%, with 52% disapproving. Both surveys were conducted last week.<\/p>\n
But Trump\u2019s approval ratings are slightly above water in other new polls, including one for CBS News that was also conducted in recent days and released over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Trump has kept up a frenetic pace during his opening six weeks back in the White House with an avalanche of executive orders and actions. His moves not only fulfilled some of his major campaign trail promises, but also allowed the returning president to flex his executive muscles, quickly put his stamp on the federal government, make major cuts to the federal workforce, and also settle some long-standing grievances.<\/p>\n
Trump as of Monday had signed 81 executive orders since his Jan. 20 inauguration, according to a count from Fox News, which far surpasses the rate of any recent presidential predecessors during their first weeks in office.<\/p>\n
\u2018Best Opening Month of any President in history,\u2019 Trump wrote in a social media post last week, as he touted his accomplishments.<\/p>\n
Expect Trump in his address to Congress and the nation to showcase the moves \u2013 many of them controversial \u2013 that he\u2019s taken so far. That includes a high-profile crackdown on immigration, threatening tariffs on major trading partners, including Canada and Mexico, and upending the nation\u2019s international agenda and freezing foreign aid.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re seeing a president who is certainly back in the realm of major controversy just over a month since he took the oath of office. And it\u2019s been a flooding-of-the-zone here every day, often multiple times a day,\u2019 Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
Miringoff noted, \u2018We\u2019re just seeing a lot of things happening with little time for the public to digest. The net effect of it all is there\u2019s a sense, on the part of the public, that some things are moving just a little too fast.\u2019<\/p>\n
An average of all the most recent national polls indicates the president\u2019s approval ratings are just above water. But Trump\u2019s seen his numbers edge down slightly since returning to the White House in late January, when an average of his polls indicated the president\u2019s approval rating in the low 50s and his disapproval in the mid 40s.<\/p>\n
\u2018The honeymoon is over, and he\u2019s actually governing, and that typically does bring numbers down,\u2019 veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance, the president of New Hampshire-based New England College, told Fox News Digital. \u2018I expect the numbers to continue to slip as the changes in Washington really do begin to impact people\u2019s everyday lives.\u2019<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no surprise that the polls indicate a massive partisan divide over Trump\u2019s performance. In the CNN survey, 90% of Republicans gave Trump a thumbs up, while nine out of 10 Democrats disapproved of the job he\u2019s been doing. Independents by a 59%-41% margin disapproved.<\/p>\n
While Trump\u2019s approval ratings for his second term are an improvement from his first term \u2013 he started in 2017 in negative territory and remained underwater throughout his tenure in the White House \u2013 his numbers are below where former President Joe Biden began his single term in office.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s approval rating hovered in the low to mid 50s during his first six months in the White House, with his disapproval in the upper 30s to low to mid 40s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Biden\u2019s numbers sank into negative territory in the late summer and autumn of 2021, in\u00a0the wake of his much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and amid soaring inflation and a surge of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the nation\u2019s southern border with Mexico.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s approval ratings stayed underwater throughout the rest of his presidency.<\/p>\n\n
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