Donald Trump’s Trump approval rating slipped to a new low in the latest Economist/YouGov poll, with his net job approval falling to around -26 and 61% of Americans saying they disapproved of how he was handling the presidency.
The poll was released June 2, giving the numbers fresh weight for readers tracking whether the slide in support is deepening. It surveyed 1,604 adults from May 29 to June 1, and YouGov said the margin of error was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
The sharpest warning sign came from Independents, where a record-high 71% said they disapproved of Trump’s job. That matters because swing voters have been one of the clearest tests of whether his standing is holding up outside the Republican base, and the latest reading suggests it is not.
The numbers also land against a backdrop of weakening sentiment that has been building for months. Trump’s approval rating has been net negative for roughly a year and has trended more negative in recent months, but this poll still marks the lowest net figure seen in an Economist/YouGov survey in any week across either of his terms.
That is what makes the comparison to a poll from just one week earlier hard to ignore. Between May 22 and May 26, Trump’s disapproval rating was already 59%, and on May 27 another poll found 63% of Americans said the economy was getting worse while 13% said it was getting better. The latest result suggests the problem is not a single bad week but a streak of weak readings that has yet to turn around.
For now, there is no sign of a rebound in the data, only a more stubborn decline. Unless the next round of polling changes sharply, the question is not whether Trump remains underwater, but how much further the public’s view of his job performance can fall.
