With the exception of Bill Clinton, presidents generally do not become more popular during their second term than during their first. The fact that Trump is less popular during his second term is a special case because Donald Trump was also the least popular president of this century during his first term. Trump is the only president in history who has never exceeded 50% job approval.
An unpopular president who spent his first year pursuing policies that made him even more unpopular, while ignoring the reason voters elected him, is a recipe for political disaster.
The level of Trump’s unpopularity before the first State Of The Union of his second term has never been seen before in this century.
Video of Sarah Jones speaking about the country and culture turning against Trump:
George W. Bush’s net approval rating was (-11) before his first second term (SOTU). Barack Obama’s was net (-15). Donald Trump is almost twice as unpopular as Obama and almost three times as unpopular as Bush at net level (-27).
Tariffs, inflation and immigration are destroying Trump’s approval rating, and the president has shown no sign of willingness to adjust these policies to make himself and his party more popular before the midterm, but there is a specific group of voters, which also happens to be the largest group of voters in America, who have soured on Trump.
We’ll talk about it below.
