In this week’s Economist/YouGov poll:

Plus polling on Trump's priorities, the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool, same-sex marriage, transgender student athletes, and gas prices.

  • 60% of Americans say Donald Trump hasn't paid attention to the country's most important problems, twice as many as the 29% who say he has had the right priorities
  • 54% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of removing Donald Trump's name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; 24% disapprove
  • More Americans disapprove than approve of Trump's renovation of the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial (49% vs. 31%)
    • 27% of Americans think vandals are responsible for recent problems with the reflecting pool; 43% say they are not and 31% are not sure
  • A majority (54%) of Americans think that same-sex marriage should be legal; 33% say it should not be legal
  • Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans strongly or somewhat oppose allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth; 18% support allowing them to do so
  • Americans are divided in their perception of how gas prices are changing where they live: 40% say prices are going up a lot or a little and 41% say they're going down. More Democrats say prices are going up than down (50% vs. 32%); fewer Republicans say they're going up than down (30% vs. 55%)

See the toplines and crosstabs for the June 26 - 29, 2026 Economist/YouGov Poll

Methodology: The poll was conducted among 1,606 U.S. adult citizens. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of U.S. adult citizens. A random sample (stratified by gender, age, race, education, geographic region, and voter registration) was selected from the 2019 American Community Survey. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, geographic region, 2024 presidential vote, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. 2024 presidential vote, at time of weighting, was estimated to be 48% Harris and 50% Trump. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondent’s most recent answer given around November 8, 2024, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (31% Democratic, 33% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 3.2%.

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