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President Donald Trump's approval rating hit a new low-point for his second term in office, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week.
Trump's overall approval rating in the four-day poll, which concluded on Monday (February 16), is reported to be 38%. The president was previously reported to be at 39% in January, which was a drastic decline from the 50% highpoint shortly after his 2025 inauguration.
A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll showed that a majority 58% said Trump was going "too far" with deportations of undocumented immigrants, which was an increase from the 50% reported in October. Only 12% of respondents claimed the president was "not going far enough" and 28% said he is "handling it about right."
Half (50%) of Americans support the federal government deporting the estimated 14 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States while 48% oppose these measures. That number has, however, dropped from the reported 56% of Americans who supposed deportation of undocumented immigrants when Trump was elected in 2024 and the 51% reported last February.
Trump's net approval rating also reportedly dropped to -15.0, matching the lowest margin of his second of two nonconsecutive terms in office, polling expert Eli McKown-Dawson wrote in the latest edition of Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin blog published on Sunday (February 15).
"After a rough week in the polls, Donald Trump’s net approval rating is back down to its second term low of -15.0. The share of Americans who approve of the job he’s doing also hit a second term low of 40.5 percent," McKown-Dawson wrote. "Those numbers mean that Trump is now slightly less popular than Joe Biden was at this point in his first term (-11.5 net approval) and less popular than himself during term one (-12.0 net approval)."