Not many voters believe President Donald Trump has gone beyond what he promised during his campaign, and there is little sign of widespread buyer’s remorse among the electorate as his second term gets underway.
A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that just 12% of likely US voters say Trump has done too much of what he promised during the campaign. By contrast, 38% believe he has not done enough to fulfill his pledges, while 31% say his performance has been about right when it comes to keeping campaign promises.
The survey was conducted among 1,154 Americans via telephone and online interviews between Dec. 8 and Dec. 10.
Rasmussen’s Daily Presidential Tracking Poll from mid-December shows a polarized public on Trump’s overall job performance. Forty-seven percent of likely voters approve of the way he is handling the presidency, while 51% disapprove. Within those numbers, 30% strongly approve and 41% strongly disapprove, resulting in a net approval index of minus 12.
Another December 2025 Rasmussen survey measured voter confidence in Trump’s physical and mental fitness for office. Forty-nine percent of likely voters said they are confident he is up to the job, including 37% who said they are very confident. Forty-eight percent said they are not confident, with 37% saying they are not confident at all.
Taken together, the results suggest a sharply polarized electorate, with approval and disapproval closely matched and no dominant view that Trump has exceeded his mandate. Rasmussen did not ask respondents directly whether Trump has “gone too far,” instead focusing on whether voters believe he has fulfilled, exceeded, or fallen short of his campaign commitments.
Other national polling organizations have asked variations of that question in late 2025 and have found different results depending on issue framing. Surveys by groups such as AP-NORC, PRRI, and Economist/YouGov have reported majorities, often ranging from the mid-50s to around 60%, saying Trump has gone too far on specific policies such as tariffs, immigration enforcement, or federal spending cuts.
The answers to surveys like this vary widely and do not always show that questions are sometimes framed to pull a certain perspective.
12 thoughts on “Trump voter regret? Not actually a thing, according to Rasmussen Reports”
What will it take for MAGA to accept their mistake. Is Trump like you? Are you a thief and an ass and a rapist?
“President Trump seized on the stabbing death of Rob Reiner and his wife to make a baseless attack on the Hollywood director less than a day after reports of his killing, suggesting that Mr. Reiner’s criticism of Mr. Trump may have led to his murder.
The attack on Mr. Reiner, so soon after his death, prompted a rare backlash against the president from some MAGA-aligned Republicans, some of whom urged the president to retract his comments.
Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that Mr. Reiner’s death was “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Asked by reporters later in the day whether he stood by those comments, Mr. Trump was unapologetic: “Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person.” He added, “I thought he was very bad for our country.”
Why do you allow this foreign trash to post here?
I’ve always considered unintended irony to be one of the more underappreciated sources of humor. Thanks for your humorous contribution.
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At least you heard the noise of it going right over your head. Next time pay more attention and you might just get the point.
Oh silly you. Can’t let it go, can you. Can’t get a step ladder to look over the wall of deceit and corruption and moral failure that is Trump, something that you support and defend. Are you a moral failure Steve-O? Is the arrest, incarceration and deportation of Americans just the cost of doing business? How about Trump pardoning adjudicated and convicted cocaine kingpins; OK with you? The Rule Of Law, dude, where you at with that? Hegseth committed an international crime; Patel blows up FBI norms and laws so he can wave his tumescence; Homan took a $50,000 bribe; Kristi Noem lied to a congressional panel but thinks Scooby Doo puffy frankfurter lips are … I dunno.
Trump is poison I hope there is chelation for us after he dies in prison.
How very Pavillion of you Evan. You missed a few keywords though, I’m disappointed. Where was the Hitler comparison or the use of authoritarian and Fascist? You can do better Evan, I know it.
31% approval rating and falling. Yep, people are thrilled. I won’t even mention his latest, reprehensible comments on Rob Reiner. No one will eulogize this man.
Trump needed the republican party to engage and step up. They have done little but support war and give money to their donors and various vasal states. Trump’s focus on foreign affairs has distracted him and cost him support. The old guard in the republican party is finished. If they cling to power it will be a hollow party. The direction and energy is America first. No more empire. No more optional wars. No more cultural and spiritual rot. Drill baby drill and make all the things.
The future is either marxism (it will work This time!) or Christian nationalism. Pick one.
Rasmussen is an excellent poster with the record to back it up. Rich Baris is another.
“The future is either marxism (it will work This time!) or Christian nationalism. ” That’s not true. When did you stop believing in America?
Considering the lack of attentiveness from the American public, this poll tracks. I remember candidate Trump talking about the need to take war to South America and the importance of freeing drug traffickers, crooked politicians, and white collar fraudsters and thieves. That’s what we voted for, right?
I found this precise description of Trump and his MAGA supporters from the point of view of anti-Trumpers. Perfectly stated. I think you’ll like it and applaud the author.
“Trump?
Give me a break.
This is the same orange cretin who tears the world apart by breakfast and calls it “leadership.” The same man who would sell peace by the pound if he could skim a finder’s fee off the top. A man whose guiding philosophy is: If it enriches my billionaire friends, it must be good for America.
My disgust isn’t rooted in politics.
It never has been.
I’m not repelled because you vote red and I vote blue.
I don’t think less of you because we disagree on taxes or trade or zoning laws.
I think less of you because you watched an adult man mock a disabled reporter on live television and called it “refreshing honesty.”
I think less of you because you heard him spit racism straight into the microphone and decided that was “telling it like it is.”
I think less of you because you listened to him advocate for war crimes, for torture, for killing families, and still whispered, “Yes, that’s my guy.”
I think less of you because you watched him reduce women to decorative objects, judged solely on appearance, and you nodded along like that was normal.
I think less of you because you aligned yourself with cruelty when decency mattered.
It’s not your politics that are repulsive.
It’s your personal willingness to champion a bully, to excuse corruption, to cheer for division and hate because it scratched whatever itch was festering in the dark corners of your conscience.
You and I won’t be “coming together.”
Not forward, not backward, not ever.
Not in this lifetime or the next.
Trump disgusts me. But what will echo long after his gilded circus collapses is the simple, unforgiving truth:
He didn’t disgust you.
And that, that moral void, that ethical vacancy, is what I will remember in perpetuity, long after the fake medals tarnish, long after the grifters scatter, and long after the self-anointed “peace president” finally disappears back into the obscurity he always feared and always deserved.”
-Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.