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Trump's approval rating average sits at 42% as Republicans face significant midterm challenges, with polling showing erosion among Independents and on key issues.

As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new polls released this week shows him and his policies at remarkably high,

A year after President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term, his approval rating remains at around 45%, according to Morning Consult’s weekly polling—though voters’ views of his handling of foreign policy dipped to a record-low last week in the wake of the U.S. capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Reuters, The Economist/YouGov and Gallup released monthly polls of Trump’s approval rating throughout 2025. A combined average of the polls finds Trump’s 2025 approval rating at 42%. Below is a chart featuring Trump’s monthly approval rating from Reuters, Gallup and The Economist/YouGov respectively. The chart can also be viewed here.

An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance as president.

President Donald Trump observes the first anniversary of his return to the White House Tuesday but does so in a highly fraught moment, facing problems on multiple fronts.A year on from his swearing-in at the Capitol Rotunda on January 20,

Sixty-one percent of voters told a CNN poll released Friday that they disapprove of the way Trump is handling the economy.