Savior. Impious. Patriotic. No American. Excellent. Sad.
One hundred days after their presidency, all are words that Americans used to describe the performance of President Donald Trump in office.
The answers execute the complete spectrum of possible evaluations. On the positive side of the main book in this ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos: “Excellent”. “Awesome.” “Earring.” “Strong.” “The best president in history.”
And among the most negative comments: “disaster.” “Chaotic.” “Appalling.” “Awful.” “Atrocious.” “Catastrophic.”
As reported on Sunday, Trump has a 39% work approval index in this survey, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates With field work by Ipsos. That is the lowest work approval index in or about 100 days in the position of any president dating from 1945 (to the available data).
Invited to use a word to express your personal reaction to Trump’s performance as president so far, some focused on their feelings: “scared.” “Enthusiastic.” “Horrified.” “Relieved.” “Concerned.” “Angry.” “Confused.” “Happy.” “Devastated.”
President Donald Trump welcomes the Super Bowl Lix champion, Philadelphia Eagles, at the White House in Washington, on April 28, 2025.
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Others could not contain a single word, with more complete comments that further illustrate the very divided opinions of Americans:
“He is doing a fantastic job to achieve everything we want to do it and voted to do it!”
“He is a convicted criminal, he is a horrible scammer who thinks he is a great businessman and is sinking the economy for some ‘giving him the reason for the Libs. I did not vote for this.”
“Someone needs to intervene and control it. He is exceeding his authority. What is really scary is that republican leadership knows that he is wrong and will not stop it. Fear of losing his own power.”
“You don’t hesitate to support our best interests. It remains strong and does not yield to those who try to take advantage.”
“It is not taking into account the elderly who are in Social Security only that they do not have discretionary income to handle the drastic cost of groceries and other needs.”
“It is a horrible human being who does not care about anyone but himself and is ruining our democracy and this whole country represents.”
“He is bravely taking rapid measures to do the best for our country economically and with infrastructure.”
“Total shame. Pity that many believed and for some reason still believe in it.”
“It’s a bad seed.”
“Trump seems even more deranged than the last time, but what did we expect? I’m not surprised, but I’m disgusted.”
Some other reserved judgments, at least for the moment:
“I don’t know yet, I need more time to see the real results.”
“We will see how this is.”
Groups
Among the people who disapprove of Trump’s work performance, some characterizations were remarkably negative: “disgusting”, “disappointing”, “chaotic”, “incompetent”, “disaster”, “horrible”, “terrible” and “horrible”.
Others: “idiotic”, “shameful”, “criminal”, “crazy”, “frightening”, “pathetic”, “outrage”. Others described it as “dictator”, “fascist”, “authoritarian”, “unconstitutional.” And some told Trump as a threat: “destructive”, “dangerous”, “terrifying”, “reckless.”
Among Trump’s approvators, on the other hand, common reactions included “excellent”, “great,” good “,” strong “,” outstanding “,” impressive “,” fantastic “and” amazing “. Others were positive, but less effusive: “acceptable”, “good”, “decent”, “just”, “well”, “ok”. Some approvators were decidedly little enthusiastic: “so-so”, “mediocre”, “Meh”.
Some commented on the speed or reach of their actions: “fast”, “hurried”, “fast”, “agitated”, “roller coaster”, “running”, “too much”. Several said they were “surprised”; Others, “hopeful.” Some commented on Trump’s style: “bold”, “aggressive”, “determined.”
In any case, one said: “Better to biden, so far.”
Methodology
This ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos survey was held online through the probability Ipsos KnowledgePanel® from April 18 to 22, 2025, in English and Spanish, between a random national sample of 2,464 adults. Party divisions are 30%-30%-29%, indicators of democrats-republican.
The results have a sampling error margin of 2 percentage points, including the design effect. Error margins are larger for subgroups. The sampling error is not the only source of differences in surveys.
The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associateswith sampling and collection of data by Ipsos. See the details about the ABC News survey methodology here.
