What do Trump voters think of the US president's policies?

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US President Trump’s approval ratings are universally low — some of the worst a president has had at such an early stage in his term. The vast economic improvements he promised voters has not materialized. DW went to Arizona, one of the states that helped Trump win the 2024 election, to see how his voters feel now.

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00:00Sometimes his approval ratings are improving, sometimes getting even worse,

00:04but everyone agrees they're awful, apart from him. Arizona is one of the states which helped

00:11Donald Trump win the White House back. We went to the swing state to find out how people who

00:16voted for him last November feel now. Since weeks we've been reaching out to Trump supporters to

00:22try to arrange interviews here in Phoenix, Arizona. It was really hard to get anybody

00:29to agree on. And even those who promised to meet us, they just bailed out last minute. So

00:34we will be driving to a parking lot and be doing it the old way.

00:41So how is the mood in the United States right now? I have no idea. I'm like the most least political

00:46person you'll ever meet. I have absolutely no idea what's going on in politics right now.

00:50Just a quick question. Did you vote for Donald Trump? We're not interested, thank you.

00:54No. Did you vote for him? Yeah, of course I did.

00:56The other candidates on the left were clowns. Sir, how do you feel about him now as he's more

01:02than 100 days in office? Is he fulfilling his promises? Rome wasn't built in a day, you know?

01:09Rome wasn't built in a day. So you can't expect miracles in 100 days. You have to be reasonable.

01:16Common sense, right? Common sense. Is there a crack in his base? I don't know. I'm pretty happy with him so far.

01:23I voted for him, but I'm not like for him, you know? I just agree with him more. I have a lot of

01:30migrant friends and friends who are first generation Americans and they say like, well, why are the

01:36cages happening? Why are there children in cages? What is all this going on? The entire world is kind

01:40of just in limbo with, I don't know what's going to happen. Well, let's see, I guess. And there's nothing

01:44we can expect because he's kind of just crazy. But it's entertaining at the least.

01:50One of the people we'd contacted in advance gets in touch. Melissa Cordero, an Air Force

01:56combat veteran, has decided she will talk with us about the president she voted for back in 2015.

02:03How many did you retire? I did. So I didn't retire. I did my eight years. I did two terms and then

02:10I got out. We want to understand why she supported Trump in the past.

02:17You know, wearing that uniform, being mission oriented. I loved being in the military. We were

02:23all there to do one job. You know, there's that military and veteran camaraderie that you have.

02:28You know, I have conservative, super hardcore Republican friends around me, you know. So I

02:34don't even really think I knew I was a Republican until like somebody, you know, until voting time came

02:41around. But she's changed her mind. You know, I have very, very personal reasons that I don't,

02:48why I dislike this guy. And one of them more recently is how he's treating veterans.

02:52Massive cuts to veteran care. How, how could any Republican who are usually the biggest supporters

03:03of veterans in the military support that? I don't trust him. He doesn't have my back.

03:09He does not care about military people. He's made remarks about we're fools for joining the military.

03:14And it's just like, how can our commander in chief behave this way? He would be the last person I'd want

03:20to go to war with.

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