Donald Trump recently attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) as “low-IQ,” while particularly singling out AOC.
“I watched her the other day, it’s like, you gotta be kidding,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. “This is not going to make our country great.”
President Donald Trump is the 13th most popular politician in the U.S., while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the 6th, according to YouGov. https://t.co/OehFX0mZ5P
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 22, 2025
With that in mind, some new data has surfaced that isn’t going to make the president very happy.
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Per Newsweek, which cited YouGov data, AOC is now the 6th-most popular politician in the United States, with Trump now ranked 13th.
In fact, per YouGov, almost everyone ranked at the top of the survey is someone Trump dislikes.
The most popular politician in the country remains Barack Obama, at 55 percent, followed by Arnold Schwarzenegger at 54 percent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at 48 percent, and Kamala Harris at 47 percent. Joe Biden comes in next at 43 percent, followed by AOC with 43 percent.
Also ahead of Trump are several Democrats: Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Cory Booker, with Trump coming in 13th at 35 percent, which puts him ahead of Stacey Abrams, Al Gore, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Everyone ahead of Trump in approval, in that survey, is a Democrat, with the exception of Schwarzenegger, who governed California as a Republican but had long been a Trump critic. Kennedy, listed behind Trump, may be serving in the Trump Administration, but he’s a lifelong Democrat, from a major Democratic family.
Also worth noting is that no non-Trump Republicans or potential successors are relevant enough for inclusion in the top 20. Vice President JD Vance is listed 22nd, with a 30 percent approval rating.
— Reconstructor (@benjamintheg0at) October 19, 2025
Newsweek asked Mark Shanahan of the University of Surrey to analyze the YouGov poll.
“We’re in an age where politics has become celebritized and politicians are ranked on their media image rather than their effectiveness in delivering policy,” Shanahan said in the article.
“Trump is the ultimate rankings president – a highly performative delivery of massive inconsistency driven by whatever’s featured in the last news cycle. He remains hugely recognizable and his core MAGA vote is hard-welded to him whatever he does. But his policies are divisive and aren’t delivering up to the promise levels set during his 2024 campaign yet, so it’s not a surprise he has drifted a little.”
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