A tiny, but quickly growing group in the United States, President Donald Trump has determined something this year, as they are concerned about high costs and fear that up-to-date collective bargaining policy will further augment their personal expenses, according to a up-to-date survey.
The percentage of Asian Americans, local Hawaiian and Pacific islanders with an unfavorable opinion from Trump rose from 60% in December to 71%. This is based on a national survey by AAPI Data and the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research.
In particular, AAPI -growing people who describe themselves as independent are particularly likely that the president has cooled down. Around 7 out of 10 AAPI -independent have a “very” or “somewhat” unfavorable opinion from Trump, which have had around 20 percentage points since December.
The survey is part of an ongoing project in which the views of Asian Americans, local Hawaiians and Pacific islanders are examined, the views of which are normally not highlighted in other surveys due to tiny sample sizes and the lack of linguistic representation.
The unfavorable view of AAPI Independents on Trump is higher than its unfavorable evaluation in independent adults as a whole, which corresponds to 52% in a survey in June after 44% in December.
Economic concerns could play a central role. Approximately 8 out of 10 AAPI -growing people expect Trump’s tariff policy to augment the costs for consumer goods, as in the survey it is determined that only about 4 out of 10 are of the opinion that these guidelines augment domestic separation and only expect 2 out of 10 of more US jobs.
“For me it seems to be many not realized things that have thought about,” said Michael Ida, a 56-year-old independent in Hawaii, who taught the high school Advanced Placement Calculus. “There are many collateral damage and failures that hurt many people.” Ida referred to the cuts of state expenditure, including education.
AAPI -growing representations represent a tiny segment of the US population, which, according to a PEW research center, is about 7% of the country’s residents in 2023. Likewise, they are generally hardly a Pro Trump coordination block. In the elections of last year, the English-speaking Asian US voters shifted slightly towards Trump, but with only a third who supported him from 29% in 2020, according to AP Viewecast.
The up-to-date survey also suggests that you are particularly likely to be concerned about the path of the economy and get high costs.
About two thirds of AAPI-growing, 65%, say that they are “extreme” or “very” concerned about the possibility that the US economy will enter into a recession, higher than the 53% of the Americans who said it in an April AP-NORC survey.
“In the 2024 elections, they did not change the AAPI voters – but nevertheless – in the direction of Trump, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, managing director of AAPI Data and Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley.” You see no great economic advantages. On the contrary, you see great economic risks on the horizon, based on Trump’s measures against tariffs. “
Shopan Hafiz, a 39-year-old independent and engineer at Intel in Oregon, described his view of Trump as “very unfavorable” and complained about the tariff policy of the Republican President, which he expected to meet American consumers harder in the coming months.
“With all the tariffs, I don’t think it will help,” said Hafiz. “All tariffs are ultimately paid by US state members and inflation will deteriorate.”
The survey takes place in the middle of Trump’s threats to force tariffs for the goal for the goal of granting his goal to achieve the nation’s retail weight. Inflation has increased at the highest level in June since February when Trump’s tariffs increased the costs for household goods from food to devices.
Consumer prices rose in June in June compared to the previous year, according to the Ministry of Labor, last week compared to an annual augment of 2.4% in May. Every month, prices rose by 0.3% from May to June after only 0.1% rose in the previous month.
Like Hafiz, Ida, the teacher in Hawaii, voted for Trump last year. Instead, both voted for the candidate of the libertarian party Chase Oliver. Hafiz’s decision was against the support of the two major US parties for Israel in his war in the Gaza. Ida said the two major parties had become “too extreme”.
Ida is one of the approximately two thirds of Aapi-growing who say that they are at least very concerned about the costs for food. He has noticed the fear of higher prices in his Pacific island state and even more within the ethnic business in view of the dependence on Hawaii in disposable goods.
“Here in Hawaii, because we are so isolated, everything comes on a ship or an airplane,” he said. “We are particularly susceptible to prices and disorders in the supply chain. There are definitely some fear there.”
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The survey below 1,130 US people, which are Asian American, local Hawaiian and Pacific islanders, was carried out from June 3 to 11, 2025, with a sample from the probability base of the probability base of NORC as a representative of the Asian American, native of Hawaiian and Pacific island. Online and telephone interviews were offered in English, the Chinese dialects of Mandarin and Cantonese, Vietnamese and Korean. The sales edge for all respondents is plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
