President Donald Trump’s approval rating slipped again in the latest Pew Research Center poll released Thursday.
The Pew Research Center poll found that Trump’s approval rating has dropped three percentage points over the past two months and is down nine points since shortly after he took office. The poll ultimately found that Trump had a 38% approval rating among all Americans, which is down from the 47% approval rating in January.
The poll found Trump’s approval rating also dropped among those who voted for him since taking office earlier this year. Trump’s approval rating among his own supporters fell from 95% recorded earlier this year to 85% in the latest poll.
The Pew Research Center found that an overwhelming majority of those who identify as strong Republicans still approve of how he is handling his job as president. About 93% approve of his job performance, slightly down from the 96% who said the same shortly after he took office.
The research center highlighted a significant change in approval among certain Republican-leaning groups.
The research center noted that there has been “substantial erosion in his approval over this period among those who identify as Republicans but not strongly, as well as among independents who lean toward the GOP.”
“About six-in-ten of those in these groups approve of Trump’s performance today, down from roughly three-quarters at the start of his second term,” the research center wrote in its press release.
The Pew Research Center also found that public assessments of Trump’s personality traits have also fallen off since 2024.
More from the research center:
Fewer now say he cares about the needs of ordinary people (37% today, 42% last summer), is a good role model (29% now, 34% then) or is mentally sharp (48% now, 53% then).
Trump is widely described as standing up for what he believes in: 68% say this today, identical to the share who said this last summer.
The poll was conducted among 3,554 adults from Aug. 4 to 10, 2025. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points.
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