This Gallup chart compares presidential job approval ratings in their first February in office from 1953 to 2025, including Donald Trump's first and second terms, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Kennedy and Eisenhower. Trump's second-term approval stands at 45% overall, with a large partisan divide -- 93% Republican approval vs. 4% Democrat approval, an 89-point gap, the widest in the data. Biden had 56% overall approval in 2021, with a similarly stark partisan divide (-84 R-D gap). Historical presidents like Eisenhower (67% overall), Kennedy (72%) and Nixon (60%) had more bipartisan approval. The data highlight increasing polarization in modern presidencies, particularly with Trump and Biden.
Each poll was conducted entirely in February of each president's first term, except for George H.W. Bush, which was completed Feb. 28-March 2, 1989. The latest readings for Donald Trump are for the first February of his second non-consecutive presidential term.