Some polls have President Trump's approval rating slightly down after the completion of his first month in office.
Last week, multiple national polls were released including a poll from Gallup showing the president at 45% approval and 51% disapproval, down from 47%-48% approval/disapproval in late January.
A Quinnipiac University survey also had 45% percent of voters saying they approve of Trump's job as president, with 49% disapproving. That's down from a 46%-43% approval/disapproval in a Quinnipiac poll conducted late last month.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos national survey out last week, Trump stands at 44% approval and 51% disapproval. The previous poll by Reuters/Ipsos had Trump registered at 45%-46% approval/disapproval.
Trump's approval rating is still rather high and his supporters remain behind him. His approval rating is actually higher than it was at the beginning of his first term and when he left office in 2021.
Kevin Howard is a political commentator and the author of "Onward At Last: 2024 Presidential Election Edition." He said to judge Trump on how good or bad his first month as president has gone, we have to remind ourselves what exactly he was elected to do and by who.
"Trump was elected by the American middle class and the American working class," Howard said. "They asked him to dismantle the establishment apparatus in our federal government that has created the greatest billionaire class in history, but has abandoned the American middle class."
Dismantling the interagency has been a welcome sign for many, but not for most Democrats. Howard describes the interagency as an institutional part of the government installed by neoliberals and neoconservatives that survives presidents. Trump is working to ending that regime.
Something else Trump and his administration are working to put an end to is the corruption, fraud and wasteful spending at the federal level.
Trump has secured 15 of his original 16 appointees for top cabinet positions confirmed. The lone miss was former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. Howard says Trump being able to secure the kind of names he did for his cabinet is another sign of a great first month.
"He's been very successful with getting his team confirmed," he said.
Recent confirmations of Pam Bondi as Attorney General, Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Kash Patel as FBI Director have been seen as massive wins for Trump and as huge blows to Democrats and the D.C. swamp.
To add more fuel to the fire, Elon Musk and his DOGE team have uncovered a lot of waste and fraud by auditing multiple government agencies. For some reason, their moves don't sit too well with Democrats in Washington.
"We've added 32 trillion dollars or so in debt in 33 years when for the first 216 years of the country we only had four trillion dollars in debt," said Howard. "Who got that money? Who benefited from that money? Clearly not the American middle class."
The work DOGE has been able to do in just one month's time has been quite impressive.
"This is exactly what the American people elected Donald Trump to root out," Howard added.
President Trump has signed dozens of executive orders that have gotten plenty of praise from Americans including the quick securing of the southern border, unleashing more American energy, eliminating DEI practices and barring biological men from competing in women's sports.
Vice President JD Vance is impressed with what the Trump administration has achieved in such little time.
"It's hard to believe we've only been in office for a month because I think we've done more in a month than Biden did in about four years," Vance said at CPAC last week.