Americans are likelier to say that U.S. President Donald Trump is “not too religious” or “not at all” religious, according to a Pew Research Center survey, which found that 70% of Americans believed that about the president, up eight percentage points from October 2024.
Democrats are considerably likelier (89%) than Republicans (49%) to think that the president isn’t at all religious or too religious, and Republicans and those who lean to the right (43%) and white evangelical Protestants (49%) were more likely to say that Trump stands up a “great deal” or “quite a bit” for at least some of their religious beliefs than were Democrats and those who lean to the left (4%) and black Protestants (8%), per the Pew data.
Overall, 24% of U.S. adults say that Trump is “somewhat religious,” and 5% say that he is “very religious,” the study found.
According to Pew data, Americans’ view of the president’s religiosity has changed in the past six years. In February 2020, 7% said he is “very” religious, 28% said “somewhat” religious and 63% thought he was “no too” or “not at all” religious. By March 2021, the numbers remained within two percentage points except for those who said he wasn’t “too” or “at all” religious, which rose from 63% to 67%. The next time Pew asked the question, in February 2024, all of the responses were within two percentage points of the 2021 numbers.
There was some variation in responses from white and Hispanic Catholics. White Catholics were twice as likely (6% to 3%) as Hispanic Catholics to say that Trump is “very religious” and to say that he is “somewhat” religious (32% to 15%). Some 80% of Hispanic Catholics said that Trump is “not too” or “not at all” religious, compared to 62% of white Catholics. In the prior survey, 60% of Hispanic Catholics said that Trump wasn’t “too” or “at all” religious—a 33% increase in the 2026 survey.
American adults had nearly the same views of whether Trump stood up for people with beliefs similar to theirs in April 2026 and in February 2024.
The data is based on a survey of 3,592 American adults that was conducted between April 6 and 12, “just before Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV and posted an image on social media depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure,” which he later deleted and “said he intended to show himself as a doctor,” Pew said.
The survey has an overall 1.9 percentage point margin of error.
