How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
🕒 The latest on Trump’s approval rating
Updated August 4, 2025
We saw some interesting movement in Donald Trump’s approval rating last week. It hit a new second term low of -10.3 on the 22nd. But by the 25th, it had rebounded slightly to -8.0. This week has been comparatively quiet on the Trump approval front. As of today, 44.2 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing and 53.0 percent disapprove. So his net approval rating has fallen again (to -8.8), but it’s still much higher than it was at this point during his first term (-19.2).
On the issues, Trump is approaching one month of being underwater when it comes to his handling of immigration. But it’s not all bad news: his net approval on that issue has improved over the last two weeks (-7.4 —> -4.3).
The bigger story this week is tariffs. Trump’s August 1st deadline for imposing additional tariffs will hit tomorrow. And although he’s had some success striking new trade deals — with Japan and the European Union, for example — other countries are proving more difficult. Trump’s approval on tariffs and international trade also isn’t great: 38.1 percent approval vs. 54.4 percent disapproval. That’s a net approval rating of -16.3. Is that number better than his post-Liberation Day tariff approval low of -20.2? Yes. But when tariffs are in the spotlight for long enough, Trump’s approval rating tends to suffer. -EMD, 7/31/25
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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.