Gallup stops measuring presidential popularity as Trump hits lowest level this term

In the survey corresponding to the month of last December, Trump obtained 36% acceptance. The value recorded in November is repeated, far from the 47% reached in January 2025. The data is close to the historic 34% measured after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Other recently published queries had provoked complaints and threats from the president on social networks: The New York Timesin collaboration with the Siena Research Institute (SRI) published a study this January that showed similar results.

According to the communication organ of the research center, “56% of American citizens disapprove of the work of their president at the end of the first year of this second term.”

“Many believe that the country is worse than a year ago and that the economy, instead of improving, has deteriorated,” he declared. Don Levydirector of the SRI. “The majority disapprove of the way immigration policy is being managed and nearly two-thirds reject the way in which ICE is doing its job,” he added.

Gallup’s decision to abandon the president’s popularity analysis comes a few weeks after Trump reacted to the results published by the New York newspaper.

“This survey will be added to my lawsuit against the failed New York Times. Our lawyers have demanded that they preserve all records and how they ‘computed’ these false results. They will be fully responsible of all his lies and misdeeds of the radical left,” Trump declared from his social network Truth Social.

In his appearance, the Gallup executive wanted to separate the consulting firm’s decision from the president’s statements. He assured that he will stop producing data on “individual political figures” and that the change exclusively addresses the priorities of your organization.

“This is a strategic change based solely on Gallup’s research goals and priorities, and is part of a broader effort underway to align all of Gallup’s public work with its mission,” he explained.

Gallup was the first sociometric research firm to ask Americans if they approved of their president’s performance. The investigations began 88 years ago, when Franklin D. Roosevelt occupied the Oval Office and had never been interrupted.