President Donald Trump is historically unpopular less than a year into his second term in the White House, according to new polling.
The president's approval rating plummeted to 39 percent in a new CNN poll, and the network's chief data analyst Harry Enten explained that the 79-year-old president's popularity was lower than any of his predecessors.
"It turns out that love or presidencies are not better the second time around, according to the American people, because what are we talking about here?" Enten said. "Trump's term has been, was a success or a failure. You know, back in April of 2024, when it came to term number one, the majority of Americans said that Donald Trump's first term in office was a success, 55 percent. That's a big reason why he was able to get a second term in office. They look back fondly upon his first term in office, but now come to this side of the screen now, after term two, year one. How do Americansmericans view it? Look at that a failure, fail, fail, fail – 58 percent. Just 42 percent say a success."
"These numbers look a lot more like what it did about six months into Trump's term number one than it did looking back upon the entirety of Trump's term number one, which, of course, gave him that second term in office," he added. "The clear majority, 58 percent, nearly three in five Americans say it is a failure."
Enten placed the president's disapproval rating into historical context.
"Now this is a little bit difficult, right, because Trump has had two presidencies, right," Enten said. "Other people who are say a year into term number two, in fact, have had a continuous term, but we're going to try and do it for you right here, which is essentially – okay, term or terms have been a failure about a year and a term number two. You see this for Donald Trump right here, 58 percent, term number two, first year, 58 percent say failure. Come here, look at this: Who's the next closest, George W. Bush, 52 percent said his presidency had been a failure about a year into term number two. So Trump is even worse than George W. Bush after [Hurricane] Katrina, after a long period in the Iraq war, and this is really, really bad when you compare it to George W. Bush."
" Barack Obama was 48 percent, and then Bill Clinton way down here at 26 percent," Enten continued. "Of course, his approval was sky high. But the bottom line is this about a year into term number two, Trump's numbers look worse than any other president in which either CNN or the Pew Research Center has asked this question. The only one really close, Joe Biden. Joe Biden, if you look here, was at 57 percent failure in term one. However, term one, this is term two. But he's even doing a point worse, though within the margin of error."
"So you just go across this poll and you look at this, not just the numbers right here, right now," he added, "but what people see into the future and how people view everything, and it's just a big F-A-I-L."
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