Days ahead of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress and a little more than two weeks before the first primary voters head to the polls, majorities of Americans disapprove of how the president is handling inflation, tariffs, relations with other countries, immigration and the economy, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted via Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel poll conducted shortly before the Supreme Court invalidated Trump’s global tariffs.

And despite Trump’s low ratings, Americans don’t trust Democrats in Congress more to handle the country’s biggest problems.

About two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling inflation (65%) while over 6 in 10 disapprove of how he is handling tariffs on imported goods (64%) and U.S. relations with other countries (62%). Nearly as many disapprove of how he is handling immigration (58%) and the economy (57%). The poll was conducted Feb. 12-17; the Supreme Court’s decision on tariffs came out Feb. 20. 

Trump’s highest approval rating is at best slightly negative: The immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, where 50% of Americans disapprove of how he is handling things and 47% approve. 

While majorities of Democrats and independents disapprove of Trump on all six issues measured, there’s a split among Republicans. Over half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 54%, say they are supporters of the MAGA movement and 42% say they are not. Majorities of MAGA Republicans approve of how Trump is handling all six issues measured, but among non-MAGA Republicans, majorities disapprove of how he’s handling inflation, tariffs and relations with other countries. A majority of non-MAGA Republicans approve of how he’s handing the border, economy and immigration.

Trump’s overall disapproval rating is at 60%, marking the highest numerical disapproval of his second term and matching his disapproval rating as he left office after his first term in January 2021. 

Do Americans like Democrats any better?

But even with all of that, Americans do not trust the Democratic Party any more than Trump.

Americans are roughly split on who they trust more to handle the country’s main problems: 33% say Trump and 31% say Democrats — and another 31% say neither. Last year, they trusted Trump over Democrats by a 7-point margin.

They are also roughly split on trusting Trump or Democrats on reducing the cost of living in the U.S., but prefer Trump to handle immigration by 4 percentage points.

And while 64% of Americans say Trump is out of touch with the concerns of most people in the country today, that matches the share who say the same about the Democratic Party.

The economy

While Americans are still quite negative on the economy, those feelings have tempered, but only slightly. 

Nearly half of Americans say the economy has gotten worse since Trump became president (48%), which is down from 52% who said the same in October. The share saying the economy has gotten better ticked up only slightly over the same period, from 27% to 29%. 

And just 22% say they are better off financially now than when Trump became president in 2025, up from 18% in October. That rating is higher than Biden enjoyed throughout his presidency on the same measure. Still, a majority of Americans say their financial situation is either “about the same” (44%) or “not as well off” (33%).  

As mentioned, 65% of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling inflation, 64% disapprove of how he is handling tariffs and 57% disapprove of how he is handling the economy overall. 

Trump’s honesty, mental and physical health

Moreover, more than half of Americans, 56%, say Trump lacks the mental sharpness it takes to serve effectively as president, the highest in ABC News-Washington Post-Ipsos polling since 2020 — when it was 52%.

When President Joe Biden was in office, 54% said he lacked the mental sharpness to be president, rising to 69% by January 2024 in ABC-Post-Ipsos polling.

About half (51%) say Trump is not in good enough physical health to serve effectively as president either — also a high in ABC-Post-Ipsos polling dating to 2023 and a stark difference from the 28% who said this less than three years ago. In January 2024, 69% said the same about Biden.

Majorities of Democrats and independents say Trump does not have the mental or physical health to effectively serve as president, while most Republicans — including nearly all MAGA Republicans and a smaller majority of non-MAGA Republicans — say Trump has both the mental sharpness and good enough physical health to serve effectively as president.

At the same time, an even larger share of Americans — 7 in 10 — say Trump is not honest and trustworthy, tying a high-point set in January 2024. Biden never got close to that level during his presidency, peaking at 55% saying he was not honest in January 2024. Today, majorities of Democrats (96%), independents (80%) and non-MAGA Republicans (74%) say Trump is not honest and trustworthy, while more than 8 in 10 MAGA Republicans say Trump is honest and trustworthy. 

Americans are roughly split over whether Trump is a strong leader (48%) or not (51%).  

A growing majority of Americans say that Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself, 62%, up from 56% last September. Just over a third of Americans say the president is not using his post to enrich himself.  

Majorities of Democrats (95%) and independents (69%) say Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself, along with about half of non-MAGA Republicans (51%). Most MAGA Republicans (86%) say Trump is not using the presidency to enrich himself. 

About two-thirds of Americans (65%) say Trump has gone beyond his authority as president, the highest share since ABC-Post-Ipsos first asked last February and it was 57%.  

And over half (56%) of Americans say the Trump administration is not committed to protecting Americans’ rights and freedoms, while 43% say it is; nearly identical to the shares who said the same in April of last year. 

Majorities oppose Trump using military to force changes in other countries, cutting the number of recommended vaccines 

On two issues, Americans oppose the Trump administration by a more than 2-to-1 margin, with large shares saying they have no opinion. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Trump has cut the number of vaccines recommended for children. This change was enacted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, without an independent review.

Most Americans (53%) oppose the Trump administration decreasing the number of vaccine recommendations for children – while only 21% support it – with a Republican split: 56% of MAGA Republicans are in support compared with just 21% of non-MAGA Republicans. Combined, 44% of Republicans support the Trump administration recommending fewer vaccines, 23% oppose it and 33% have no opinion or skipped the question. 

Most Democrats (87%) and a slim majority of independents (52%) oppose the administration recommending fewer vaccines – with more independents voicing no opinion (31%) than support (17%). 

In January, the U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and Trump claimed that the U.S. would “run” the country for an unspecified period of time. Separately, Trump has frequently voiced his desire for the U.S. to control Greenland saying the U.S. “will go as far as we have to go” to obtain the island.  

Over half of Americans (54%) oppose Trump using the U.S. military to force changes in other countries, while just 20% support this and another 26% say they have no opinion or skipped the question.  

Most MAGA Republicans (56%) support Trump using the military to force changes, while 40% of non-MAGA Republicans oppose it and another 40% say they have no opinion. Majorities of Democrats and independents oppose this. 

And as revelations from the files from the investigation of disgraced, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continue to roll out, most Americans (56%) say the Trump administration has not been transparent in their release while just 26% say they have been transparent. 

While 69% of MAGA Republicans say the Trump administration has been transparent in its release of the Epstein files, just 32% of non-MAGA Republicans agree. Most Democrats and independents say the administration has not been transparent.

Methodology — This ABC News-Washington Post-Ipsos poll was conducted via the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel, Feb. 12-17, 2026, among 2,589 U.S. adults and has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. The error margins are larger among partisan group subsamples.  

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