How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
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Updated June 14, 2025
How is Donald Trump doing in the polls? Worse than he was at the start of the week, primarily due to a string of very negative polls. His approval rating was 16 points underwater in the latest Quinnipiac poll and 13 points underwater in today’s Navigator Research poll. And the June AP-NORC poll shows Trump with a net approval rating of -21. That’s Trump’s worst poll of his second term, and the first time his second term disapproval rating has hit 60 percent.
Now some of these firms have shown worse results for Trump than other pollsters all year — four of Trump’s ten worst second-term approval polls come from AP-NORC. But still, Trump’s net approval rating in the Silver Bulletin average is down from -3.9 at the start of the week to -5.4 today.
Approval of Trump’s handling of immigration has also fallen since the start of the week: from +4.6 to -2.1. Why? He’s well underwater on the issue according to new polls from The Washington Post (-15 net approval), Quinnipiac (-11), and AP-NORC (-7). But there’s some disagreement here. Polls conducted around the same time by J.L. Partners (+9), YouGov (+4), and Morning Consult (+9) have Trump solidly above water on immigration. -EMD, 6/12/25
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This is the landing page for Silver Bulletin presidential approval ratings. It will always contain the latest data from our average of presidential approval polls and we’ll regularly update these approval ratings as new polls come in.1
Our polling average is the direct descendant of the presidential approval average that Nate designed for FiveThirtyEight. Click here for more information on how the average works. The Silver Bulletin average weights more reliable polls more heavily — you can find our latest pollster ratings here. It adjusts for house effects. And it accounts for uncertainty, estimating the range where new polls might come in.
The topline: So, just how popular is Trump?
Our default average reflects a combination of all polls, whether conducted among adults, registered voters or likely voters. If a pollster releases multiple versions of the same survey, we use the all-adult version of the poll before the registered voter version.2 This is because all Americans have a say in how popular the president is — whether or not they vote.
The polls: What do the surveys say?
Inevitably, there’s a lot of disagreement from survey to survey, not just because of statistical variation but because pollsters have long had trouble pegging down Trump’s popularity — and often underestimated it. So you can see all the numbers here and how house effects work in the model. You can also click here to download every Trump approval poll in our database — including some additional details not shown in the chart below.
Each poll gets an “influence” score based on its pollster rating, its sample size, its recency, and how often a pollster is publishing numbers.3 Sometimes, surveys with mediocre pollster ratings have more weight in the model just because they were conducted very recently or polled more people.
The issues: What do Americans think of Trump’s policies?
Pollsters don’t just ask about Trump’s overall job approval, they also ask about how well he’s dealing with different issues. We’re tracking how the public feels about Donald Trump’s handling of some of the most salient topics: the economy, immigration, trade and tariffs, and the cost of living.
The deep dive
We also have a few features we’re reserving for paying subscribers:
How do Trump’s approval ratings compare to every past president since Truman?
How many voters strongly approve or disapprove of Trump?
What are Trump’s numbers in only polls of adults or only polls of likely and registered voters?
You can find all of that, plus downloadable data on every president’s approval rating every day since 1945, down below.