{"id":276585,"date":"2025-10-08T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:44:21","slug":"most-americans-think-trump-is-trying-to-exercise-more-power-than-previous-presidents","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/10\/08\/most-americans-think-trump-is-trying-to-exercise-more-power-than-previous-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans think Trump is trying to exercise more power than previous presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Donald Trump listens to a reporter’s question during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan in the White House’s Oval Office on Sept. 25. (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Around seven-in-ten Americans (69%) say President Donald Trump is trying to exert more power than his predecessors. And most of those who say this describe Trump\u2019s efforts as a bad thing for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall, 49% of U.S. adults say Trump is trying to exercise more presidential power than previous presidents and<\/em> that this is bad for the country. <\/strong>A much smaller share (12%) say he is trying to use more power and view this as good for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around one-in-five adults (21%) say Trump is trying to exercise about the same amount of power as other recent presidents. Only 2% say he is trying to exercise less presidential power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this study to assess the public\u2019s attitudes of President Donald Trump\u2019s performance in office and use of executive authority. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,445 adults from Sept. 22 to 28, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, presidential vote (among voters) and other factors. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions used for this analysis<\/a>, the topline<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

There is a wide partisan split on this question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n