Donald Trump’s job-approval numbers have steadily eroded throughout his second term as president. Per the Silver Bulletin polling averages, he hit his highest second-term job-approval number of 52.4 on January 23, 2025, three days after his inauguration. He hit his second-term low of 37.2 percent on September 27, four days ago. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans disapproving of the job he is doing has increased by 20 points from 40 percent the day after his inauguration to 60.4 percent on September 24. There’s simply no way to characterize his second-term trajectory other than as a long voyage into unpopularity. At present, Silver Bulletin shows that 49.1 percent of Americans strongly disapprove of Trump’s job performance; only 20 percent strongly approve.

So the question that must be asked is this: How low can Trump’s job approval go?

Gallup has the deepest database of presidential job-approval numbers, dating back to FDR, and the worst numbers ever belong to these presidents: Harry Truman, 22 percent (February 1952); Richard Nixon, 24 percent (July–August 1974); George W. Bush, 25 percent (October 2008); Jimmy Carter, 28 percent (June 1979); George H.W. Bush, 29 percent (July 1992); and Donald Trump, 34 percent (January 2021).

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