Trump’s approval rating hits lowest level of his career, poll finds

Trump's approval rating hits lowest level of his career, poll finds.

Key points

• A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted only hours after he was sworn into office in 2025 discovered that 47% of Americans approved of Trump.
• According to Reuters/Ipsos, the four-day poll was conducted among 1, 277 U.S.
• The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll discovered that 73% of Republicans approved of Trump's job performance, a nine percentage-point drop from last week's poll.
• 21, discovered that only 32% of Americans approved of the president's job performance.
• According to the newest poll, a majority of Republicans, 51%, say they disapprove of Trump's handling of the cost of living, a first for the president.

Trump's approval rating hits lowest level of his career, poll finds. Fernando Cervantes Jr. USA TODAY. Poll: Trump's approval rating marks historic low.

Trump's approval rating has fallen to a new low, with less than one-third of Americans approving of his performance in the White House, polls show.

President Donald Trump's approval rating has reached the lowest level of his political career, with less than one-third of Americans approving of his performance in the White House, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Notably, the poll, published on Monday, Sept. 21, discovered that only 32% of Americans approved of the president's job performance. Monday's results mark a three-point drop from last week's Reuters/Ipsos poll. It offered Trump a small boost in the polls.

Trump's 32% approval rating on Monday sets a new record low throughout both of his terms in office. Previously, Trump's floor had been 33%. It he had reached in December 2017 and held for three weeks in a row this August.

As only 17% of Americans remarked they approved of Trump's handling of the problem, cost of living has been a deep source of unpopularity for the president.

According to Reuters/Ipsos, the four-day poll was conducted among 1, 277 U.S. Adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Some Republicans commence to turn on Trump.

Meanwhile, the president's slipping approval numbers come as Republicans have soured on Trump's handling of the cost of living and the increasingly unpopular war in Iran.

In practice, the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll discovered that 73% of Republicans approved of Trump's job performance, a nine percentage-point drop from last week's poll. The Iran war has additionally eroded Republican backing for the president as gasoline and diesel rates have skyrocketed in recent weeks.

Notably, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted only hours after he was sworn into office in 2025 discovered that 47% of Americans approved of Trump.

Now, a year and a half afterwards and with looming midterm elections, Trump has dropped 15 percentage points and has fallen even lower than former President Joe Biden's lowest approval rating of 35% in October 2024.

While Monday's poll had the lead sitting by 8 percentage points, trump's continued unpopularity could prove helpful for Democrats in November as recent polling from NBC News and Fox News discovered Democrats leading the GOP by 5 and 7 percentage points, respectively, in a generic congressional ballot. What do polling averages show?

While individual polls vary, major polling averages continue to place Trump in negative territory overall.

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