Donald Trump’s Rock Bottom Approval Rating Just Set A Record
Donald Trump’s average approval rating in the second quarter of 2017 was the lowest of any president’s approval rating since Gallup began tracking the number in 1945.
On Friday, a new Gallup poll found that Trump’s average approval rating for the second quarter of 2017, between April 20 and July 19, was just 38.8 percent.
Trump’s 38.8 percent approval rating average is the lowest of any other president during a comparable period in their presidency.
Trump’s Q2 average is also lower than his average in the first quarter of the year, which was 41 percent.
Trump’s Q1 average approval rating was also the lowest first-quarter approval rating of any president since Gallup started recording.
After Trump’s record low approval rating in Q2, the next lowest second quarter rating is Bill Clinton’s which was 44 percent according to Gallup.
Additionally, this quarter of Trump’s presidency ranks 250th out of 287 presidential quarters measured by Gallup since 1945.
As you can see from the chart below, Donald Trump’s approval rating significantly below all other presidents in the Gallup poll.
Source: Gallup
During the same point in their presidencies, Presidents Obama, H.W. Bush, Carter, Nixon and Reagan all had approval ratings in the 60s.
Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower had approval ratings of 76.2 percent and 71.5 percent respectively.
About the poll: Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted April 20-July 19, 2017, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 52,765 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.
