Here’s Where Trump’s Approval Rating Stands Exactly One year Into His Second Term

Jan. 20Trump’s ratings improved slightly in Morning Consult’s weekly poll compared to last week—the share of registered voters who approve has increased from 45% to 46% and the share who disapprove has decreased from 53% to 51% (the poll of 2,201 registered U.S. voters was conducted Jan. 16-18 and has a margin of error of 2).

Trump’s approval rating has declined from 52% at the start of his term in Morning Consult polling, decreasing significantly after announcing a series of steep tariffs against U.S. trading partners in April last year and hovering at around 45% since.

Voters’ views of his handling of foreign policy recovered slightly from a record low of net -4 last week to net -1 this week, with 45% approving and 46% disapproving—in the wake of Maduro’s capture on Jan. 3, Trump has upped his threats to take over Greenland, intervene in anti-government protests in Iran and impose tariffs on some countries in the European Union.

Jan. 15Trump’s 40% approval rating in the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research January survey is largely consistent with his numbers throughout the first year of his second term—and are similar to his ratings in his first term, when he entered the presidency with a 42% approval rating and left office with nearly the same number.

Americans’ views of Trump’s handling of immigration—one of his signature issues—have declined sharply throughout his first year in office, however, reaching 38% in January, down from 49% in March last year.

The poll overlapped with several high-profile shootings involving ICE officers, including the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, when an ICE agent shot multiple rounds through her car window at close range in an incident captured by bystanders’ video—prompting a heated partisan debate about whether she was aiming to hit the officer with her vehicle, with some on the right breaking with Trump and his allies in denouncing the shooting as an unjustified use of force.

Jan. 14Trump’s approval rating increased to 40% from 36% in December, while his disapproval rating decreased from 61% to 59% in the latest AP/NORC poll of 1,203 U.S. adults conducted Jan. 8-11 (margin of error 3.9).

Despite the improvement in Trump’s overall approval rating, the poll found a plurality of respondents (45%) want the U.S. to take a less active role in solving global issues, an increase from the 33% who said the same in December.

Jan. 14Trump’s approval rating was also at 40% in the latest Economist/YouGov poll released Wednesday and his disapproval rating was 56%, a slight improvement from last week (the poll of 1,437 registered voters was conducted Jan. 9-12 and has a margin of error of 3.1).

Jan. 6Trump’s 39% approval rating and 56% disapproval rating is unchanged from last week’s Economist/YouGov survey of 1,551 U.S. adults taken Jan. 2-5 (margin of error 3.3).

Jan. 6Trump’s approval rating dipped one point, to 46%, in the latest Morning Consult survey, consistent with his average job performance rating throughout his second term, according to the poll of 2,201 registered U.S. voters taken Jan. 2-4 (margin of error 2).

Jan. 5Trump’s approval rating ticked up three points, to 42%, and his disapproval rating decreased three points, to 56%, in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,248 U.S. adults taken Jan. 4-5, after the U.S. captured Maduro and his wife in a stunning raid early Saturday.

Views of Trump’s job performance improved to their highest point since October, despite only one in three Americans approving of the military operation and 72% saying they’re worried the U.S. will become too involved in Venezuela, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, which has a margin of error of 3).

Dec. 30Trump ends the year with a 39% approval rating and 56% disapproval rating in the Economist/YouGov’s weekly poll following a downward trend since the start of his second term linked to his handling of the economy—as more than half of poll respondents, 51%, said they believe the economy is getting worse (the latest survey of 1,550 U.S. adults was conducted Dec. 26-29 and has a 3.6-point margin of error).

Trump’s -17% net approval rating compares to a -14% net approval rating after the first year of his first term and a -10% net approval rating after Biden’s first year, according to Economist/YouGov polling.

Dec. 18Trump had a 41% approval rating and 50% disapproval rating in an Emerson College poll of 1,000 voters taken Dec. 14-15 (margin of error 3).

The numbers are nearly the same as they were in November, when Trump also had a 41% approval rating and a 49% disapproval rating, but are a sharp turn from his 49% approval/41% disapproval rating in the group’s January poll taken at the start of his term.

Dec. 17Trump’s overall job performance had a 38% approval rating in the latest NPR/PBS/Marist poll of 1,440 adults conducted Dec. 8-11 (margin of error 3.2), while 54% disapprove.

His 36% approval rating on his handling of the economy is at its lowest point for both his first and second terms.

Dec. 17Trump had a 40% approval rating and 54% disapproval rating in a Quinnipiac University poll taken Dec. 11-15 among 1,035 registered voters (margin of error 3.9), unchanged from Trump’s October approval/disapproval rating.

Dec. 16Trump’s approval rating decreased from 41% to 39% in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, compared to the groups’ poll the previous week week, while his disapproval rating also increased from 57% to 59% (the poll of 1,016 respondents was taken Dec. 12-15 and has a three-point margin of error).

Approval of Trump’s handling of the economy slipped from 36% to 33% while the share of respondents who said they disapprove increased from 52% to 58%.

Dec. 11Trump’s 36% approval rating was unchanged from AP-NORC’s November poll in its survey of 1,146 adults conducted Dec. 4-8 (margin of error 4), but his rating on the economy dipped to 31%, a low point for both terms.

Dec. 19Trump’s approval rating ticked up to 41% from 38% in late November in Reuters/Ipsos’ poll, while his disapproval rating decreased from 60% to 57% (the poll of 4,434 U.S. adults was conducted Dec. 3-8 and has a two-point margin of error).

The uptick coincided with an increase in his performance on the cost of living—from 26% last month to 31% this month among all respondents, driven by a 10-point gain among Republican voters.

Trump has sought to improve voters’ views on his handling of the economy, kicking off an “affordability tour” in Pennsylvania.

The New York Times’s polling average found Trump had a 42% approval rating and 55% disapproval rating after several weeks of declining support.

The data shows voters increasingly disapprove of his handling of the economy—net approval of his economic performance has fallen across surveys—with just 26% percent of respondents believing Trump is doing a good job at managing the cost of living, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Trump has also seen faltering numbers from within his own party and one-time supporters: Only 75% of Republicans approved of his handling of the economy in November, down from 82% in July, according to Marquette University polling, and his approval rating among white, college-educated men has dropped to 40% from 47% in June, according to polling from Fox News.

Dec. 2The Economist/YouGov’s weekly poll of 1,628 U.S. adults taken Nov. 28-Dec. 1 found Trump had a 38% approval rating and 57% disapproval rating, the seventh straight week his net approval rating was -15 or lower (the survey has a margin of error of 3.2).

In Trump’s first term, his net approval rating never dipped to or below -15 for more than three consecutive weeks, YouGov noted.

Biden had a -9 net approval rating at this point in his term and Trump had a -15 net approval rating at this point in his first term, according to Economist/YouGov polling.