One hundred days into Donnie Trump’s second reign — er, second term — which religious groups approve of him most?
No surprise — Trump continues to have high approval ratings among White evangelicals. In a recent poll, Pew Research found that 72% of White evangelicals approve of King Donnie — er, President Trump.
Here are the approval ratings for other religious groups in the Pew poll:
- 72% — White Protestant Christian, evangelical
- 51% — White Protestant Christian, not evangelical
- 51% — White Catholic Christian
- 40% — All US adults
- 26% — Hispanic Catholic Christian
- 26% — Religiously unaffiliated
- 10% — Black Protestant Christian
I was a bit surprised that these approval ratings are very similar to Trump’s first term. In their report, Pew Research says: “Both among the U.S. public as a whole and among major religious groups, Trump’s current approval ratings are on par with what they were around the same time in his first term (April 2017).”
Not surprisingly, White Evangelicals support Trump’s extensive use of executive orders — 53% of them feel that Trump is doing about the right amount by executive order. Only 27% of White evangelicals think Trump is doing too much by executive order, 15% are unsure, and 5% feel he’s doing too little by executive order.
I’d be jumping to conclusions if, based on this one survey, I said that White evangelicals are OK with a president who’s seems to be trying to operate like a king. But I’m keeping that in mind as a possibility.