--- ---  # President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another Low  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 19, 2017 11:23 AM UTC  US President Donald Trump listens during a press conference with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos in the East Room of the White House May 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump listens during a press conference with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos in the East Room of the White House May 18, 2017 in Washington, DC.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI—AFP/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 19, 2017 11:23 AM UTC [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4783929/president-trump-loyalty-test/)‘s approval rating has hit another low in a new poll, following dizzying weeks of damaging revelations and controversial decisions in the White House. The latest [Politico/Morning Consult survey](http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015c-201c-d476-abdf-7c3e722d0001) found 53% of respondents disapproving of the job Trump is doing as President and only 41% approving, the lowest approval rating in this poll since he took office. Some of Trump’s recent actions didn’t sit well with voters. A majority — 58% — said they disapproved of the President’s reported move to [share classified information](http://time.com/4779986/donald-trump-russia-classified-information-isis/?iid=sr-link3) with the Russian officials in the Oval Office last week. Forty-one percent said they aren’t confident in Trump’s ability to handle classified information. And when told of [reports](http://time.com/4781623/michael-flynn-james-comey-donald-trump-fbi-investigation/?iid=sr-link1) that Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, 50% of voters said they thought it was inappropriate of Trump to [fire Comey](http://time.com/4773210/donald-trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey/?iid=sr-link4). (The White House has denied those reports.) The survey of 1,970 registered voters, conducted May 16-18, has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. Donald Trump Poll Numbers Hit New Low Amid Comey, Russia ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4785671/donald-trump-poll-approval-rating/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4785671/donald-trump-poll-approval-rating/"},"headline":"President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another Low","datePublished":"2017-05-19T11:23:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:00:59.799Z","description":"And voters don't trust him to handle classified information","url":"https://time.com/4785671/donald-trump-poll-approval-rating/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50a11235d383b82/6988ce08656a3f331fbd0124/gettyimages-684776668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf50a11235d383b82/6988ce08656a3f331fbd0124/gettyimages-684776668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-COLOMBIA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY","caption":"US-COLOMBIA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY","creditText":"BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4785671/donald-trump-poll-approval-rating/","name":"President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another Low"}}]}] ```