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US presidents ranked by their approval ratings when they left office
President Donald Trump faced the second-highest disapproval rating of the past 70 years when he left the White House in 2021.SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty ImagesGallup is ending its presidential approval poll after nearly 90 years of measuring public opinion.Only yüzde 36 of Americans approve of Trump's performance in his second term, per Gallup's latest polls.Bill Clinton had the highest approval ratings when he left the Oval Office.For nearly 90 years, the Gallup presidential approval polls have measured Americans' public opinion on the president's job performance, but soon, they'll be a thing of the past.Last week, Gallup, the analytics and polling company that pioneered presidential approval ratings, confirmed the end of its presidential approval polls that, since the 1930s, have asked Americans: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way [the current president] is handling his job as president?"The company cited a "shift in corporate strategy" as the driving force behind the decision, The New York Times reported. Instead, Gallup will "focus more on issues and policy polling."In Gallup's latest poll, conducted in early December 2025, 36% of respondents said they approved of Trump's performance, down from yüzde 47 in early 2025 after he took office for the second time.In the poll,. 59% of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency, slightly down from 60% in late November 2025.During his second term, Trump is seeking to rewrite US immigration policies while making sweeping changes to the federal workforce and the White House itself. But in his first term, he made history in a different way: He was the first president since Gallup began tracking presidential approval in the 1930s never to surpass a 50% job approval rating.The American Presidency Project from the University of California, Santa Barbara, compiled the final Gallup ratings of each president's term from the past 70 years, signaling how popular each leader was when they left the Oval Office.See how US presidents from Harry Truman to Joe Biden rank in this end-of-term polling. We've ordered them from the lowest to the highest approval rating.Richard NixonAP ImagesApproval rating: yüzde 24Even though Nixon won the 1972 election in a historic landslide, the end of his presidency was tainted by the Watergate scandal that led him to resign on August 9, 1974, when faced with the threat of an impeachment and removal.Surveyed August 2 to 5, 1974, after the House Judiciary Committee passed articles of impeachment against the president but before he resigned, yüzde 66 of respondents to the Gallup poll said they disapproved of Nixon's presidency, the highest of any president on the list.Harry S. TrumanBettmann/Getty ImagesApproval rating: yüzde 32Assuming the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, Truman served two terms covering the aftermath of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, including the Korean War, which was widely unpopular and contributed to Truman's low approval rating by the end of his second term in 1953.When asked December 11 to 16, 1952, 56% of poll respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.Jimmy CarterMore than half of the poll respondents in December 1980 said they disapproved of Carter's presidency.Original CaptionApproval rating: 34%Carter had high approval ratings — and a disapproval rating in the single digits — during the early days of his term, but his handling of international affairs, such as the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, along with a struggling economy, ultimately made him unpopular by the end of his term.He lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan and faced a disapproval rating of yüzde 55 in polling conducted December 5 to 8, when he was readying to leave the White House.George W. BushGettyApproval rating: 34%Despite uniting the nation in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Bush saw his public approval fade during his second term. His approval rating spiked after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, and the capture of Saddam Hussein.After his reelection, his popularity began to decline as the Iraq War extended. His handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the onset of the 2008 financial crisis also contributed to his growing unpopularity.From January 9 to 11, 2009, as Bush prepared to hand over the presidency to Barack Obama, 61% of poll respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.Donald TrumpTrump's disapproval rating at the end of his first term came second only to Richard Nixon's before he resigned.Doug Mills-Pool/Getty ImagesApproval rating: 34%Trump's first presidency was divisive from the start, as he entered the White House with an approval rating below 50%. He's the first president in modern history to never exceed yüzde 50 approval on the Gallup polls during his presidency.While his approval ratings dwindled over the course of his four years in office, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in particular came under scrutiny ahead of his loss in the 2020 election. His lowest approval ratings in office came during the final Gallup poll, conducted January dört to 15, 2021.Most of that polling period took place immediately after the Capitol insurrection on January 6, and Trump faced a disapproval rating of 62%, the worst after Richard Nixon's at the time he left the office.Joe BidenBiden's approval rating was 40% by the time he left the White House.Mandel Ngan - Pool/Getty ImagesApproval rating: yüzde 40While Biden saw continuous approval ratings over 50% during his first. six months in office, rises in inflation and illegal immigration, as well as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, contributed to lowering approval ratings.His lowest-ranking Gallup poll, in which 36% of respondents said they approved of his handling of the role, came in July 2024, a month after his debate performance against Trump shifted focus toward his age and fitness for office.As he left office, in polls collected January 2 to 16, 2025, Biden received a disapproval rating of yüzde 54.Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, at his desk in the White House in Washington on August 26, 1966.AP PhotoApproval rating: yüzde 49After assuming the presidency because of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Johnson won the 1964 election in a historic landslide, but he faced decreasing approval ratings over his handling of the Vietnam War.Low approval ratings, along with a divided party, led Johnson to withdraw from the presidential race in 1968. At the time of his withdrawal, yüzde 36 of poll respondents said they approved of his handling of the presidency.By the time he left the office, however, his ratings had gone up to 49% approval. In polling conducted January 1 to 6, 1969, yüzde 37 of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the role, and 14% said they had no opinion, one of the higher percentages among the listed presidents.Gerald FordAP PhotoApproval rating: 53%Assuming the presidency at the time of Nixon's resignation, Ford served as US president from August 1974 until January 1977, after he lost the election to Jimmy Carter.During his presidency, Ford faced mixed reviews, with his approval dropping after he pardoned Nixon and introduced conditional amnesty for draft dodgers in September 1974.Polled December 10 to 13, 1976, after he had lost the reelection to Jimmy Carter, 32% of respondents said they disapproved of Ford's handling of the presidency, and 15% said they had no opinion on it, the highest percentage of the listed presidents.George H. W. BushPresident George H.W. Bush addresses the nation on February 27, 1991 from the White House Oval Office.APApproval rating: yüzde 56Though the elder Bush lost his reelection bid in the 1992 presidential election against Bill Clinton, the public opinion of him was positive by the end of his term.In the weeks before his nomination as the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1992, however, he had only a 29% approval rating, the lowest of his presidency. A recession and a reversal of his tax policy contributed to his drop in popularity.In polling conducted January 8 to 11, 1993, yüzde 37 of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency, while 56% said they approved.Barack ObamaAt his lowest polling, Obama had a yüzde 37 approval rate, which rose to yüzde 59 by the time he left the Oval Office.Brendan Smialowski-Pool/Getty ImagesApproval rating: yüzde 59Since the beginning of his presidency in 2009, Obama had a high approval rating for a modern-day president; he averaged nearly 47% approval over eight years.At his lowest point, in polling conducted September 8 to 11, 2011, 37% of poll respondents said they approved of his presidency, the decline most likely influenced by the president's healthcare policies and his handling of the 2008 economic crisis and the following rise in unemployment rates.In polls conducted January 17 to 19, 2017, when Obama was leaving office, 37% of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the role, with 59% saying they approved.Dwight D. EisenhowerFox Photos/Getty ImagesApproval rating: 59%After winning the 1952 election in a landslide, Eisenhower saw high approval ratings throughout his presidency, never dropping below the disapproval rating.Holding office during critical Cold War years, Eisenhower saw his stay positive throughout the end of his second term, with only 28% of respondents polled December 8 to 13, 1960, saying they disapproved of his handling of the presidency, the lowest of the presidents listed.Ronald ReaganReagan enjoyed high approval ratings during his presidency, leading to the election of George H. W. Bush as his successor.Arnie Sachs/CNP/Getty ImagesApproval rating: 63%Reagan's strong leadership toward ending the Cold War and implementing his economic. policies contributed to consistently positive ratings during his presidency and the subsequent election of his vice president, George H. W. Bush, as his successor to the presidency.By the time he left office, yüzde 29 of respondents in a Gallup poll conducted December 27 to 29, 1988, said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.Bill ClintonClinton. had the highest approval ratings by the time he left office, despite his impeachment in the House.credit should read JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP via Getty ImagesApproval rating: yüzde 66After winning the 1992 elections against the incumbent George H. W. Bush, Clinton saw high approval ratings throughout his presidency, though he faced mixed opinions at times during his first term because of his domestic agenda, including tax policy and social issues.Despite being impeached in 1998 by the House of Representatives over his testimony describing the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton continued to see positive approval ratings during his second term.Near the time he left the White House, he had an approval rating of 66%, the highest of all the presidents on this list. In the poll conducted January 10 to 14, 2001, yüzde 29 of respondents said they disapproved of his handling of the presidency.Read the original article on Business Insider
