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Trump now the greatest of ALL TIME ... at being least popular president
The Observer
|November 02, 2025
Donald Trump is unpopular.
In poll after poll, a majority of American voters say they disapprove of the job he is doing. Trump is not merely unpopular - he is historically unpopular. Gallup has been tracking presidential approval ratings since the end of the second world war. After nine months in office, no other president - not Jimmy Carter, not Richard Nixon, not Joe Biden - had a lower rating than Trump.
Trump has lost support across the board, in some cases dramatically. A YouGov poll of Americans last week showed that just 20% of adults under the age of 30 think he's doing a good job, down from 50% six months ago. The Republicans and their allies like to claim that young American men have turned to the right - the facts suggest otherwise. He didn't have a huge amount of support to begin with - both of his elections were won with less than 50% of the vote.
His unpopularity is worth noting, not just because it might make you feel better but because it jars with the conventional wisdom. Trump's victory was supposedly a moment that indicated the world had changed: that liberalism was dead, diversity was loathed and action on climate change was unnecessary.
This story is from the November 02, 2025 edition of The Observer.
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