President Donald Trump signs an executive order (Getty Images)
Forty-five percent of those questioned in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted this past weekend (March 21-23) gave Trump a thumbs up, with 51% saying they disapproved of his performance steering the nation. The survey questioned just over 1,000 adults nationwide.
The poll was conducted mostly before the controversy over top White House national security members discussing sensitive operational details of a U.S. military strike in Yemen, on the messaging app Signal, possibly in violation of some federal laws.
Trump's numbers were slightly higher in the most recent Fox News national poll, which was in the field March 14-17. Americans appeared divided on the job the president was doing, with 49% approval and 51% disapproval.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One en route to New Jersey on Friday, March 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
"Keep these numbers in perspective. The numbers he’s averaging right now are still higher than he was at any point during his first presidency," veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse told Fox News.
Daron Shaw, who serves as a member of the Fox News Decision Team and is the Republican partner on the Fox News Poll, highlighted that "the difference is largely a function of the consolidation of the Republican base."
"The party’s completely solidified behind him," added Shaw, a politics professor and chair at the University of Texas, who noted that Trump’s current rock-solid GOP support was not the case at the start of the first term, when he had troubles with some Republicans.
Newhouse also emphasized that Trump's Republican "base is still strongly behind him."
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It is a similar story with Trump's popularity.
The president's favorable ratings are slightly underwater, in an average of the latest national surveys, but they remain superior to his standing during his first term in the White House. Additionally, the percentage of Americans who say things are on the right track in the country has jumped to above 40% in a bunch of recent polls. While still in negative territory, they are the most positive right track/wrong track figures in years.
So how does Trump stack up with his immediate predecessor?
Then-President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House as he gives his farewell address on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
Biden came out of the game in a favorable position, with his approval rating hovering in the low- to-mid-50s during the first six months of his single term as president, with his disapproval in the upper 30s to the low- to-mid-40s.
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However, Biden's numbers sank into negative territory in the late summer and autumn of 2021, in the wake of his much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan, and amid a surge of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the nation's southern border with Mexico, as well as the rise in inflation.
Biden's approval ratings stayed underwater throughout the rest of his presidency.
"He just got crippled and never recovered," Shaw said of Biden.
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