President Donald Trump’s Job Approval Rating At An All-Time Low Of 43%

With the United States on top of the list of countries currently battling the coronavirus pandemic and having a constant spike in its existing number of infected cases and its death toll, even President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has taken a nosedive.

Trump has enjoyed the rally in support since the nation entered a lockdown but since then, his job approval rating has slipped down six percentage points from 49%, his personal best, and is now at 43%, as per data from an April 1-14 Gallup poll.

This is the sharpest decline in the president's approval rating so far that has been recorded by Gallup. Till now, Trump's ratings have been stable. Even though, his current 43% approval is higher than the ratings he had since he has been in the White House- 40%-, this year, his approval rating had climbed and had been averaging 46%, occasionally climbing to 49%.

The recent spike in his approval has begun as the coronavirus pandemic had only started spreading in the country- his net approval rating (approval - disapproval) among voters had witnessed the highest spike since the first month of his presidency.

But now, his disapproval rating stands at 54%, up by 9 points from 45%, owing to the health and economic crisis in the United States presenting a daunting challenge to his presidency. This may end up having an adverse impact on reelection as he stands in the final year of his first term.

But it has only been 40 days since Trump observed the upward bump in his approval rating and for it to witness a downward spiral so soon goes against the patterns of similar spikes in previous presidents’ approval rating.

Not only was the 6 point jump rather low- it was half of what Barack Obama got after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and even less than George W. Bush’s 70 points increase after 9/11- it also had a very poor residual effect, as it should have lasted months.

And what’s more is the fact that Congress' approval rating has gone up- as per the poll, every state’s governor's approval rating is higher than Trump's.