{"id":15118,"date":"2026-05-11T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/americans-dont-think-trump-has-explained-iran-war-goals-reuters-ipsos-poll-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:54:08","slug":"americans-dont-think-trump-has-explained-iran-war-goals-reuters-ipsos-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/americans-dont-think-trump-has-explained-iran-war-goals-reuters-ipsos-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans don&#8217;t think Trump has explained Iran war goals, Reuters\/Ipsos poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Two out of three Americans think President Donald Trump has not clearly explained why the country has gone to war with Iran, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll completed on Monday that also showed his approval rating ticking up from the lowest level of his term.<\/p>\n<p>The four-day poll revealed deep concerns about surging gasoline prices, and also suggested many voters are casting blame for their troubles on Trump&#8217;s Republican allies who will be defending their congressional majorities in the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>More than two months into a conflict that began&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/05\/americans-dont-think-trump-has-explained-iran-war-goals-reutersipsos-poll-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Two out of three Americans think President Donald Trump has not clearly explained why the country has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3459,3511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-moyen-orient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}