DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in February 2025
Today marks one month since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, and the attitude from the president and his supporters throughout has amounted to the belief that he can do whatever he wants because he won the election and the popular vote.
At the start of his second term, Trump’s approval rating was 46 percent, against a disapproval rating of 43 percent, according to a Quinnipiac poll at the time. But a month in, Trump’s polls are looking a bit worse.
According to a CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday, the president’s approval rating is now at 47 percent, but disapproval is at 52 percent, which is low but still higher than his approval ratings during his first term. The poll also shows that only 1 percent of voters have no opinion.
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Polling analyst Harry Enten appeared on CNN Thursday to share CNN’s poll and several others, all of which show Trump underwater. He described it as Trump’s worst polling day during his second presidential term.
“Negative, negative, negative, negative,” Enten said. “He is underwater like The Little Mermaid.”
The last day has been the worst polling day for Trump during his entire 2nd term.
-4 polls show his net approval rating underwater, like The Little Mermaid.
-The 3 polls with a trend line show his ratings going down.
-His one-time strength (the economy) is now a weakness. pic.twitter.com/l9IQOhXS9K— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) February 20, 2025
The numbers come after weeks of Enten coming on TV to mostly share good polling news about Trump. But now, the news is bad for Trump, especially regarding his handling of the economy, including his failure to fix inflation promptly.
Those who believed that Trump would decline in popularity once he started doing things, including things that remind voters what they don’t like about, would appear vindicated by the new polling.
At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term, his approval rating in a new @CNN poll by SSRS tilts negative but remains higher than at any point in his first four years. The poll was conducted online and by phone. https://t.co/qh1N87aXO0
— SSRS (@ssrs_research) February 20, 2025
“Most adults nationwide, 55%, say that Trump has not paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, and 62% feel he has not gone far enough in trying to reduce the price of everyday goods,” CNN’s writeup of its poll says. “Sizable shares across party lines share the latter view, including 47% of Republicans, 65% of independents and 73% of Democrats.”
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