The first three months of the Trump administration have done nothing to disabuse them of this belief. A new Pew Research Center poll shows 63 percent of registered voters say Trump is “too impulsive” in making important decisions. And that includes 30 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

What's noteworthy here is that the poll was conducted at a time when Trump was doing something on the foreign policy front that met with broad bipartisan applause. The strikes in Syria were launched April 6, and the poll went into the field a day later.

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Multiple polls have since shown that a majority supported Trump's decision — as much as 57 percent in a CBS News poll. But even in that poll, there lingered plenty of uncertainty about Trump's foreign policy and temperament more broadly. Fifty-four percent of Americans said that they remained “uneasy” about his overall approach to Syria, compared with 41 percent who expressed confidence.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll, meanwhile, showed faith in Trump remained unchanged — if not decreased. While 25 percent said the Syria strikes made them more confident in Trump's leadership, 28 percent said it made them less confident. That's not exactly what you'd expect after he undertook what was, on balance, a popular action.

And the Pew poll spells out that continued skepticism pretty well. There was an increase in the number of Republicans and Republican leaners who say they are “very” confident in Trump to handle an international crisis — from 45 percent before his presidency to 57 percent today — but that's still 43 percent of Republican-leaning voters who don't have that level of faith. And among Democrats, 85 percent now have no or not a lot of confidence in Trump's ability to handle such crises.

Trump's approval rating appears to have leveled off in the high 30s, perhaps owing in part to his decisive action in Syria. But as Trump pursues a similarly decisive and potentially interventionist policy elsewhere — and potentially in Syria again — there appear to be clear limits to the faith the American people will invest in such efforts.