--- title: Seth Meyers on Trump Approval Rating description: Seth Meyers took to his show on Thursday night to shred Trump's approval ratings. canonical: https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-31T15:34:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:25.962Z og:title: Seth Meyers on Trump's Approval Ratings: 'Worse than Nixon's' og:description: Trump has the lowest rating of any new president og:url: https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers on Trump's Approval Ratings: 'Worse than Nixon's' twitter:description: Trump has the lowest rating of any new president twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Shreds Trump's New Approval Ratings Low > Sponsored content. 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He’s had three of them.” Meyers noted that both President Richard Nixon during his Watergate Scandal and President George W. Bush during Hurricane Katrina had higher approval ratings than Trump’s current one. (Nixon’s job approval later dropped to 51% in a mid-January [Gallup survey](http://www.gallup.com/poll/4258/history-shows-presidential-job-approval-ratings-can-plummet-rapidly.aspx) in the wake of the first criminal trial of Watergate defendants in 1973.) The president has still yet to dip to the same lows of Bush who saw his approval rating dip to 25% and Nixon, who at one point had the approval of 24% of the American public. 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