President Trump’s approval rating ticked down over the past week amid his feud with Elon Musk after a week of improvement.
Trump’s approval rating in the Decision Desk HQ/The Hill average stands at 47.5 percent, 2 points under his disapproval rating of 49.5 percent, as of the most updated aggregate from Tuesday. His negative 2 net approval rating is down from a week ago, when he briefly reached net positive territory for the first time since early March.
His net favorability rating also saw a drop, falling from 4.5 points underwater to 6.4 points.
Trump started his second term above water in both his approval and favorability ratings before dropping consistently as he approached his 100th day in office. But that trend moved in a different direction through much of May, and his approval rating was higher than his disapproval rating on one day in the average, June 5.
But it’s come back down slightly over the past week as tensions built up with Musk, who was a key supporter throughout the 2024 presidential election and the early days of Trump’s return to office.
Musk had increasingly criticized Trump’s “big beautiful bill” over the additions that it would add to the debt, but he took public aim at the legislation and Trump himself in a series of posts on X. He called the legislation a “disgusting abomination,” declared support for Trump’s impeachment and said Trump wouldn’t have won the election without his support.
Musk poured millions of dollars in spending to backing Trump in 2024.
He also alleged that Trump has ties to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk expressed regret for some of the comments that he made about Trump in another post on X on Wednesday, saying they “went too far.” Trump told The New York Post that he believes he could reconcile with Musk, but it’s not a priority for him.
Despite the drop in Trump’s approval, Musk may have taken a bigger hit as a result of the feud.
His favorability rating already suffered greatly as he oversaw the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to cut federal spending and lay off thousands of federal employees. But his net favorability rating dropped more than 5 points over the past week, from negative 7.9 points to negative 13.2 points.
That was in part a result of a YouGov/Economist poll that found his net favorability among Republicans dropped 20 points, from 59 percent to 39 percent. His favorability rating also dropped in the poll among independents and Democrats by about 10 points each.