'Trust in Trump': President's supporters dismiss alarm bells from critics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : I'm going to have trust in President Trump that he knows what he's doing."
57% : The site's same model had Trump with about a 52% unfavorable versus 43% favorable rating on Election Day last year.
52% : "I'm glad somebody is finally thinking with some common sense, like (Trump) said," Solnordal, who is chair of the Alameda County (Calif.) Republican Party, told USA TODAY.
46% : When asked their opinion of the president, political data site FiveThirtyEight on March 3 showed Trump was averaging roughly 48% unfavorable versus 46% favorable across various polls, far better than the public's opinion of him during the campaign.
45% : Trump has "been right on everything," she said.
43% : She said she wants Trump to tread carefully on some actions, including attempts to dismantle the department.
39% : Malcolm Mahoney, a student at Dartmouth College, said he couldn't bring himself to support Trump last fall and instead wrote in former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's name.
36% : "So love him tapping Elon Musk, who's the smartest man in the world, to help out and weed out government corruption.
29% : Foes seek to make Musk the administration's face In terms of his policy prescriptions, Pew finds there is slightly more opposition to Trump than full-throated support.
27% : A 2019 special counsel inquiry did not find evidence Trump or members of his campaign conspired with the Russian government to sway the outcome, and another internal investigation released in 2023 concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation.
27% : The Pew survey shows that of those Americans, 11% identify as "not strongly" disapproving of Trump versus 9% who said they were "not strongly" approving.
27% : Jack Reeves, of Wellington, North Carolina, voted for Trump and said he doesn't pay much attention to day-to-day happenings in Washington.
23% : The country at large remains sharply split on its opinion about Trump as a person.
23% : But Republican Candy Meintze, 64, of Stevenson, Michigan, who voted for Trump after being undecided, said she's wary about Musk, an unelected official, having so much government oversight.
10% : "What will be the consequences and ramifications of what he's doing?" 'We're tired of it': Americans deeply divided on Trump, but job approval steady Those who pulled the lever for Trump last fall overwhelmingly dismiss concerns about executive overreach, however, as being overblown by the press as much as by Democrats.

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