February 4, 2026
Nearly 70% of AAPI adults disapprove of how Trump is handling his job as president. Trump’s overall job approval is slightly lower among AAPI adults than the general public, according to the AP-NORC January 2026 Poll.
AAPI partisans’ opinions of Trumps’s overall job performance are similar to the views of partisans overall in the country. Just 8% of AAPI Democrats approve of Trump’s performance and just 15% AAPI Republicans disapprove.
The education gap in approval is especially pronounced among AAPI adults. Disapproval is almost 20 percentage points higher among AAPI adults with a college education compared to those without a college degree.
More AAPI adults under 30 disapprove of Trump than those 60 or older (83% v. 60%).
About a third of AAPI adults approve of how Donald Trump is handling immigration, the economy, health care, and foreign policy. Approval on the economy, immigration, and foreign policy generally align with the overall public according to the AP-NORC January 2026 Poll.
Trump lost ground with AAPI adults on immigration with approval falling from 42% in March 2025 to 33%.
AAPI Republicans are more likely than AAPI Democrats to approve of Trump’s handling of each issue.
The nationwide study was conducted by The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and AAPI Data from January 5-12, 2026, using the Amplify AAPI Monthly Survey drawing from NORC’s Amplify AAPI® Panel designed to be representative of the U.S. Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander household population. Online interviews were offered in English, the Chinese dialects of Mandarin and Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Korean with 1,077 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islanders aged 18 and older living in the United States. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4.8 percentage points.
