President Donald Trump signs an executive order on biomedical research safety in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, May 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Most, but not all, of the most recent national public opinion surveys indicate Trump's approval ratings in negative territory, which is a slide from the president's poll position when he started his second tour of duty in the White House. An average of the latest national surveys puts the president's approval rating underwater by around six points.
Trump stood at 44% approval and 55% disapproval in the most recent Fox News national poll, which was conducted April 18-21.
WHERE TRUMP STANDS IN THE LATEST FOX NEWS NATIONAL POLL
The president's approval rating was also 11 points in the red in a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted April 25-27, but a trio of other surveys released in recent days put Trump slightly above water.
Trump does not care about the polls.
"Never been a better 100 days," he said on Sunday. Then, the president blasted what he charged were "fake polls."
His claim reiterated charges made last week, during the intense coverage of the president as he reached the 100-day mark into his second administration.
Then-President Joe Biden speaks at the State Department, during the closing days of his presidency on Jan. 13, 2025. (AP)
So how does Trump stack up against his presidential predecessors?
"John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower had the highest first-quarter average ratings, with both registering above 70%, while Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan averaged between 60% and 69%. George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton had similar average ratings of 55% to 58% in their first quarters," Gallup noted in a poll released two weeks ago on presidential approval ratings.
Gallup highlighted that "Trump is the only president to have sub-50% average approval ratings during a first quarter in office."
However, enjoying promising approval ratings out of the gate does not guarantee a positive and productive presidency.
Carter's poll numbers sank into negative territory less than two years into his presidency, and he was resoundingly defeated in his bid for re-election in 1980.
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Biden stood at 54% approval in Fox News polling 100 days into office, with his numbers hovering in the low-to-mid-50s during the first six months of his single term as president.
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 soaring inflation and a surge of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the nation's southern border with Mexico.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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