Trump’s approval rating stands at 40 percent, up from a recent dip to 37 percent in January amid the longest government shutdown in the country’s history.
Heading into his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump has the lowest job approval rating of any president in United States history at this point in his tenure in office, with the exception of Ronald Reagan.
Trump’s approval rating stands at 40 percent, up from a recent dip to 37 percent in January amid the longest government shutdown in the country’s history, and up slightly from 39 percent before the shutdown, according to a CNN poll released Monday.
Only Reagan had a lower approval rating than Trump, at 35 percent, before his third State of the Union address in 1983. By comparison, George H. W. Bush’s approval rating before his third address in 1991 was 83 percent, John F. Kennedy was at 74 percent in 1963, Dwight D. Eisenhower was at 70 percent in 1955, George W. Bush was at 60 percent in 2003, Richard Nixon was at 56 percent in 1971, Barack Obama was at 50 percent in 2011, Bill Clinton was at 47 percent in 1995 and Jimmy Carter was at 43 percent in 1979.
