- Trump's approval at 36% in a Gallup poll.
- Joint-worst for any U.S. president.
- Worst rating in the last 50 years.
In December 2017, at the conclusion of his first term, he entered with exactly the same score.
In discrepancy, at the end of his first time in office in December 2021, Joe Biden, his precursor, was at 43.
Looking back, Richard Nixon, who entered a 30 percent blessing standing in December 1973, was the only chairman to have a worse standing than Trump at the conclusion of the first time of their alternate term.
Nixon served two terms in a row, but Trump is the only American chairman to successfully recover from loss since Grover Cleveland in 1892, so the comparison isn't exact.
According to New York magazine, Trump started his belated second term in January with the greatest job-approval rating he has ever received as president, 50 percent, according to Gallup.
On the day following his second inauguration, which took place inside the U.S. Capitol due to the severe winter weather, Silver Bulletin's sophisticated polling averages put him at 51.6 percent.
He had a positive net approval rating of 11.6 percent overall at the time, with a disapproval rating of 40 percent. This situation persisted until March 12, at which point it fell into negative territory and stayed there for the remainder of the year.
On April 2, Trump announced his "Liberation Day" plan of reciprocal tariffs on foreign countries from the Rose Garden. The markets reacted so negatively to this announcement that he had to halt the levies once more a week later.
Before his net approval rating started a gradual decline that reached -15% by Thanksgiving (41.2% approval against 56.2% disapproval), Silver Bulletin showed a subsequent improvement through June.
He went from 42.1 percent approval and 54.3 percent disapproval to -12.2 percent this Christmas due to a minor uptick in December.
All four of Silver Bulletin's performance categories, immigration (-8.3 percent), trade (-20.5 percent), the economy (-21.3 percent), and inflation (-28.8 percent) show negative scores for Trump.
The president has repeatedly stated that the U.S. economy is in poor shape, both in Pennsylvania on the first leg of his "Affordability" tour and during his primetime broadcast speech last week. However, based on those statistics, he would be wise to reconsider the issue.
While Trump's popularity among independents has nearly halved from 46 percent at the time of his inauguration to 25 percent, Gallup's monthly poll of Republican voters shows only a 2 percent dip from January's high of 91 percent approval to 89 percent presently.
Even though the president will not be on the ballot, it may be interpreted as a bad sign for the GOP ahead of next year's midterms, which are probably going to act as a referendum on his administration.
According to a recent Quinnipiac University survey, most American citizens, regardless of party affiliation, think that Trump has abused his presidential authority in his first year back in office.
According to the study, 54% of participants thought Trump had overreached his authority, while 37% thought he had generally struck the correct balance.
Surprisingly, a further 7% claimed that he had not gone far enough.
How has Trump's approval trended over his presidency?
President Donald Trump's job blessing conditions have shown remarkable stability throughout both terms, generally ranging between 36 and 45 in major polls like Gallup, with little" honeymoon" period and patient polarization.
From induction highs near 45 in early 2017, conditions dipped to 34post-January 6, 2021, comprising around 41 amid charges, COVID response, and profitable swings, with strong Democratic support( 85- 90) neutralized by near- zero Popular blessing.
Post-2025 induction, approval started at 40- 41, holding steady through summer before slipping to 36 in December amid profitable enterprises and policy difficulties, matching literal lows while independents hit record disapprobation lows.