March 18, 2026

Polls

Newsweek -    Trump's overall approval rating is 37 percent compared to a 56 percent disapproval rating. His approval rating with men is 41 percent versus 55 percent disapproval.

It is the lowest approval rating Trump has received from men in his second term in office. In a survey in early February, he received an approval rating of 42 percent from men, with a disapproval rating of 52 percent.

Trump's dipping approval rating comes amid the war with Iran. Recent approval ratings show mixed reaction, as a poll from the conservative-leaning Trafalgar Group said he has a net positive in double digits. In the poll from The Economist and YouGov on Tuesday, Trump's approval rating on Iran is 36 percent and his disapproval 56 percent.

Study Finds -   About 19.3 million American adults, roughly the combined populations of New York City and Los Angeles, have at some point seriously thought about shooting another person. That’s the stunning extrapolation from a new national survey published in JAMA Network Open, an effort to put a number on this poorly understood group and frame it as a focus for gun violence prevention.

Conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, the study found that about 7.3% of adults reported having those thoughts at some point in their lifetime. Another 3.3%, an estimated 8.5 million people, said they had thought about it in just the past year. Those are not passing frustrations or fleeting anger. Researchers asked specifically about serious thoughts of shooting another person.

Beyond thoughts alone, a meaningful number of people reported taking concrete steps toward carrying out violence. An estimated 4 million adults said they had thought about getting a gun specifically to shoot someone. Roughly 1.5 million reported having actually brought a gun to a location with the intention of shooting someone. For some respondents, those thoughts were paired with concrete steps toward action.

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