Only two weeks out from the midterm elections, President Donald Trump's endorsement ratings have reached their lowest item during his second term.
The latest poll conducted by The New York Times in alliance alongside Siena University shows that lone 34% of registered voters endorse of Trump's handling of the job, during 60% disapprove.
The American Research Group, a distinct New Hampshire-based pollster, asked the identical inquiry and established that 29% of respondents approved of Trump's job achievement during a akin polling period, during 67% disapproved. The study additionally established that lone 27% of surveyed Americans endorse of the president's handling of the economy.
These new polls remain against a changing polling landscape.
For nearly 90 years, the Gallup presidential endorsement polls measured Americans' community opinion on the president's job performance, but now, they're a item of the past.
In February, Gallup, the analytics and polling business that pioneered presidential endorsement ratings, confirmed they were ending the practice, which, since the 1930s, had asked Americans: "Do you endorse or disapprove of the way [the current president] is handling his job as president?"
In Gallup's latest poll, conducted in first December 2025, 36% of respondents stated they approved of Trump's performance, and 59% of respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.
The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, compiled the final Gallup ratings for all presidential term complete the former 70 years — from Harry Truman to Joe Biden — and indicated how famous all chief was whenever they remaining the Oval Office.
See how the final 13 US presidents classified in their end-of-term polling, from the lowest to the highest final endorsement ratings.
Richard Nixon
Final endorsement rating: 24%
While Richard Nixon won the 1972 ballot in a historic landslide, the end of his presidency was tainted by the Watergate scandal that led him to resign on August 9, 1974, whenever facing the danger of impeachment and removal.
Surveyed between August 2 and 5, 1974 — following the House Judiciary Committee had passed articles of impeachment against the president, but before Nixon resigned — 66% of respondents to the Gallup study stated they disapproved of Nixon's presidency, the highest criticism charge of any chairman on the list.
Harry S. Truman
Final endorsement rating: 32%
Assuming the presidency following Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, Harry Truman served two conditions that covered the consequence of World War II and the commencement of the Cold War, including the Korean War, which was extensively unpopular and contributed to his low endorsement ranking by the end of his second term in 1953.
When asked December 11 to 16, 1952, 56% of study respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the presidency during his term.
Jimmy Carter
Final endorsement rating: 34%
Jimmy Carter had high endorsement ratings and a single-digit criticism ranking in the first days of his term, but his handling of global affairs, specified as the Iran hostage emergency in 1979, alongside alongside a struggling economy, ultimately made him extensively unpopular by the end of his term.
He misplaced the 1980 presidential ballot to Ronald Reagan and faced a criticism ranking of 55% in polling conducted December 5 to 8, whenever he was planning to depart the White House.
George W. Bush
Final endorsement rating: 34%
Despite uniting the nation in the awaken of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush saw his community endorsement diminish during his second term. His endorsement ranking spiked following the 2001 extremist attacks, the commencement of the Iraq War in 2003, and the grasp of Saddam Hussein.
After his reelection, his fame began to decrease as the Iraq War extended. His handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the onset of the 2008 financial emergency additionally contributed to his low endorsement ratings.
From January 9 to 11, 2009, as Bush prepared to hand complete the presidency to Barack Obama, 61% of study respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the presidency during his second term.
Donald Trump
Final endorsement rating: 34%
Donald Trump's archetypal presidency was divisive from the start, as he entered the White House alongside an endorsement ranking below 50%. He's the archetypal chairman in contemporary former to never exceed 50% endorsement on the Gallup polls during his complete presidency.
While his endorsement ratings dwindled complete the way of his four years in office, his handling of the COVID-19 epidemic in particular came under scrutiny onward of his defeat in the 2020 election.
His lowest endorsement ranking in agency came during his final Gallup poll, conducted January 4 to 15, 2021.
Most of that polling duration took location immediately following the Capitol insurrection on January 6, and Trump faced a criticism ranking of 62%, the second-worst lone following Richard Nixon's at the period he remaining office.
Joe Biden
Final endorsement rating: 40%
While Joe Biden saw endorsement ratings complete 50% during his archetypal six months in office, rising inflation, forbidden immigration, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza contributed to a decrease in his endorsement ratings.
His lowest-ranking Gallup poll, in which 36% of respondents stated they approved of his handling of the role, came in July 2024, a duration following his debate performance against Trump shifted concentration toward his age and fitness for office.
As he remaining office, in polls collected January 2 to 16, 2025, Biden received a criticism ranking of 54%.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Final endorsement rating: 49%
After assuming the presidency since of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson won the 1964 ballot in a historic landslide, but he faced decreasing endorsement ratings complete his handling of the Vietnam War.
Low endorsement ratings, alongside alongside a divided party, led Johnson to retreat from the 1968 presidential race.
At the period of his withdrawal, lone 36% of study respondents stated they approved of his handling of the presidency.
By the period he remaining the office, however, his endorsement ranking had risen to 49%. In polling conducted January 1 to 6, 1969, 37% of respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the role, and 14% stated they had no opinion, among the higher percentages among the listed presidents.
Gerald Ford
Final endorsement rating: 53%
Assuming the presidency upon Nixon's resignation, Gerald Ford served as US chairman from August 1974 until January 1977, following losing the ballot to Jimmy Carter.
During his presidency, Ford faced blended reviews, alongside his endorsement dropping following he pardoned Nixon and introduced conditional amnesty for draft dodgers in September 1974.
Polled December 10 to 13, 1976, following he had misplaced the reelection to Jimmy Carter, 32% of respondents stated they disapproved of Ford's handling of the presidency, and 15% stated they had no opinion on it, the highest percent of the listed presidents.
George H. W. Bush
Final endorsement rating: 56%
Though the elder Bush misplaced his reelection bid in the 1992 presidential ballot against Bill Clinton, community opinion of him was mostly affirmative by the end of his term.
In the weeks before his 1992 nomination as the Republican presidential candidate, however, George H. W. Bush had lone a 29% endorsement rating, the lowest of his presidency. A recession and a reversal of his tax guideline contributed to his autumn in popularity.
In polling conducted January 8 to 11, 1993, 37% of respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the presidency, during 56% stated they approved.
Barack Obama
Final endorsement rating: 59%
Since the commencement of his presidency in 2009, Barack Obama had a elevated endorsement ranking for a modern-day president; he averaged nearly 47% endorsement complete eight years.
At his lowest point, in polling conducted September 8 to 11, 2011, 37% of study respondents stated they approved of his presidency, a decrease most apt influenced by the president's healthcare policies and his handling of the 2008 financial crisis and the consequent increase in unemployment rates.
In polls conducted January 17 to 19, 2017, whenever Obama was leaving office, 37% of respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the role, alongside 59% saying they approved.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Final endorsement rating: 59%
After winning the 1952 ballot in a landslide, Dwight D. Eisenhower saw elevated endorsement ratings throughout his presidency, never dropping below the criticism rating.
Holding agency during the crucial Cold War years, Eisenhower saw his endorsement remain affirmative through the end of his second term, alongside lone 28% of respondents polled December 8 to 13, 1960, saying they disapproved of his handling of the presidency, the lowest among the presidents listed.
Ronald Reagan
Final endorsement rating: 63%
Ronald Reagan's powerful guidance toward ending the Cold War and implementing his economic policies contributed to consistently affirmative ratings during his presidency and the consequent ballot of his vice president, George H. W. Bush, as his successor to the presidency.
By the period he remaining office, 29% of respondents in a Gallup study conducted December 27 to 29, 1988, stated they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.
Bill Clinton
Final endorsement rating: 66%
After winning the 1992 elections against the incumbent George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton saw elevated endorsement ratings throughout his presidency, although he faced blended opinions at times during his archetypal term since of his family agenda, including tax policy and social issues.
Despite being impeached in 1998 by the House of Representatives complete his evidence describing the nature of his association alongside Monica Lewinsky, Clinton continued to see affirmative endorsement ratings throughout his second term.
By the period he remaining the White House, he had an endorsement ranking of 66%, the highest of all the presidents on this list.
In the study conducted January 10 to 14, 2001, lone 29% of respondents stated they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.
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