USA Today, February 2025
President Donald Trump’s approval ratings came out of the gates higher than his first term in 2017, but they remain low compared to other presidents during the same time span. Most polls taken in the first few weeks of his second term show more people approve of Trump’s job performance than disapprove of it.
However, early calculations published Jan. 28 by polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight showed the margin between Trump’s approval and disapproval polling averages was the second-lowest among any other newly-elected president since World War II, outside of his first term. And that margin, also known as net approval rating, has shrunk as more polls have been released, moving from around 7 percentage points on Jan. 27 to around 1.3 percentage points on Feb. 20, FiveThirtyEight polling averages show.
