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chairman donald trumpmaintains a job approval rating of only 36 percent The joint-worst rating of any US president at the end of his first year in power in the last 50 years, in the latest Gallup poll.
The other guy? himself – at the end of the first year of his first term in December 2017 – when he achieved exactly the same score.
For comparison, their predecessors Joe Biden At the end of his first year in the Oval Office in December 2021, it was at 43 percent.
And looking back, there is a president whose approval ratings are worse than Trump’s at the end of the first year of his second term, richard nixonWho had obtained 30 percent marks in December 1973.
However, the comparison is not accurate as Nixon had two consecutive terms whereas Trump is the first US president to make a successful comeback from defeat since Grover Cleveland in 1892.
new york magazine notes Trump began his second term as president in January with his highest job-approval rating yet, with Gallup putting him at 50 percent.
silver bulletin refined voting average Meanwhile he was put at 51.6 percent the day after his second inauguration ceremony at the US Capitol, an event held indoors due to bitter cold.
His disapproval rating at the time was 40 percent, giving him an overall positive net approval rating of 11.6 percent, a state of play that continued until March 12, at which point it fell into negative territory and remained there for the rest of the year.
A significant decline occurred on April 2, the day Trump unveiled his “Liberation Day” program of reciprocal tariffs from the Rose Garden to other countries, which prompted such an adverse reaction from the markets that he was forced to halt the levy again a week later.
The Silver Bulletin charted a subsequent recovery through June, before its net approval rating began a steady decline, reaching -15 percent by Thanksgiving (41.2 percent approval versus 56.2 percent disapproval).
A slight uptick in December has taken him to -12.2 percent this Christmas, from 42.1 percent approval and 54.3 percent disapproval.
Trump scores in negative territory in all four performance areas tracked by the Silver Bulletin: immigration (-8.3 percent), trade (-20.5 percent), economy (-21.3 percent), and inflation (-28.8 percent).
The President has consistently claimed that the US economy is in bad shape, including during his tenure Last week’s primetime television address and in pennsylvania First stop on their “Affordability” tour But, looking at those figures, it would be advisable to think again about the problem.
While Gallup’s monthly polling of Republican voters shows Trump’s approval has dropped by just 2 percentage points from a January high of 91 percent to now 89 percent, his support among independent candidates has nearly halved from 46 percent at the inauguration to 25 percent.
This could be read as a bad omen for the GOP ahead of next year’s midterms, which is likely to serve as an effective referendum on his administration, even if the president himself will not be on the ballot.
Another recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that a majority of American voters across all parties trust Trump. He went too far in the use of presidential power In his first year at the Oval.
Fifty-four percent of respondents polled said they think Trump has overstepped his authority, while another 37 percent said they believe he has largely got the balance right.
Another 7 percent, perhaps surprisingly, said it didn’t go far enough.