Washington, D.C: According to a Reuters/Ipsos survey that ended on Monday, Americans’ apprehension over President Donald Trump‘s attempts to expand his authority caused his public popularity rating to dwindle to its lowest point since he returned to the White House.

In the six-day survey, 42% of participants expressed approval of Trump’s performance as president, which is lower than 43% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll three weeks before and 47% in the hours after his inauguration on January 20.

Trump has issued hundreds of executive orders to increase his power over government agencies and commercial organizations like legal companies and colleges, leaving his political rivals in disbelief at the beginning of his tenure.

The results of the Reuters/Ipsos poll indicate that many Americans are uneasy with Trump’s actions to punish universities he views as being too liberal and to appoint himself as the board chair of the Kennedy Center, a significant theater and cultural institution in Washington, even though his approval rating is still higher than it was for the majority of his Democratic predecessor’s presidency.

The president of the United States must follow federal court decisions even if he doesn’t want to, according to almost 83% of the 4,306 respondents. For breaking a federal judge’s order stopping the deportations of suspected members of a Venezuelan gang who were not given the opportunity to contest their removals, Trump administration officials may be charged with criminal contempt.

The claim that “it’s okay for a U.S. president to withhold funding from universities if the president doesn’t agree with how the university is run” was rejected by 57% of respondents, including a third of Republicans.

Trump has blocked large amounts of government funds allocated for American universities, including more than $2 billion for Harvard University alone, after claiming that colleges are not doing enough to combat antisemitism on campus.

Sixty-six percent of those surveyed disagreed that the president should have authority over important cultural institutions like national theaters and museums. Last month, Trump ordered the removal of “improper” ideas from the Smithsonian Institution, a large museum and research complex that is a prominent display place for American history and culture.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that Americans who disapproved of Trump’s performance exceeded those who liked it on every subject in the survey, ranging from immigration and inflation to taxes and the rule of law. Of those surveyed, 46% disapproved of Trump’s performance, while 45% approved of his performance in his greatest area of popularity, immigration.

Approximately 59% of those surveyed, including a third of Republicans, said that America’s reputation was deteriorating internationally.

Although the U.S. Constitution prohibits him from doing so, Trump has said that he would want to run for a third term in office, but three-quarters of respondents disagreed. 53% of Republican respondents said Trump shouldn’t run for a third term.