President Donald Trump is reported to have a -8.2% net approval rating average after the first full week of 2026, according to RealClearPolling.com.
The polling website reports that Trump has an average 44.3% approval rating and 52.5% disapproval rating for surveys conducted between December 9 and January 7, which includes a -18% spread in the CBS News survey concluded on January 7; a -14% spread in the Reuters/Ipsos poll concluded on January 5; a -12 spread in the Economist/YouGov poll concluded on November 5; a -5 spread in the Morning Consult poll concluded on January 4; and a -8 spread in the Rasmussen Reports poll concluded on January 7.
Trump was reported to have net approval rating at around -13 entering 2026, according to famed polling expert Nate Silver in his Silver Bulletin blog. Silver acknowledged that “people aren’t going to pay much attention to polls released during the holidays” and Trump’s net approval rating average “has been hovering around -13 since mid-December,” but claimed he expected “poll releases to pick back up” during the first week of the new year.
Trump was reported to have an average net approval rating of -9.9 to end his first year in office, according to RealClearPolling.com. The president was reported to have an average 43.4% approval rating and a 53.3% disapproval rating among several national polls conducted in the final days of 2025.
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