Overview
- Gallup confirmed it will stop publishing approval ratings for political figures, ending a benchmark that dates to Franklin D. Roosevelt, with its last Trump reading at 36% in December 2025.
- Gallup says many organizations now track approval and that it will prioritize topic-based surveys it believes better inform daily life.
- Other gauges continue to show the president under 50%, including a RealClearPolitics snapshot near 42% approval and 55% disapproval and an NBC poll at 39% approval.
- Coverage attributes the slide to anger over ICE enforcement tactics, citing protests and fatal shootings that have intensified scrutiny of immigration policy.
- Trump has escalated legal and public attacks on pollsters and media, suing J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register and threatening action against the New York Times while urging penalties for what he calls fake polls.