--- title: Donald Trump's Approval Rating Lowest Ever, New Poll Finds description: President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to its lowest point since he was inaugurated in January, a new poll has found canonical: https://time.com/4786756/donald-trump-approval-rating-reuters-poll-may/ author: Aric Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-19T20:20:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:03:23.932Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump's Approval Rating Hits New Low in Yet Another Poll og:description: Even Republican voters are starting to show frustration, the poll found og:url: https://time.com/4786756/donald-trump-approval-rating-reuters-poll-may/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57fd63839af36f54/6988cdf17cdbac074bd5865a/donald-trump-fbi-pick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4114 og:image:height: 2314 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Joint Press Conference With Colombian President Santos og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump's Approval Rating Hits New Low in Yet Another Poll twitter:description: Even Republican voters are starting to show frustration, the poll found twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57fd63839af36f54/6988cdf17cdbac074bd5865a/donald-trump-fbi-pick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump's Approval Rating Hits New Low in Yet Another Poll > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey — a controversial move that followed months of Trump's shifting opinions about him._ by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins May 19, 2017 8:20 PM UTC President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI Director James Comey — a controversial move that followed months of Trump's shifting opinions about him. by [Aric Jenkins](https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins May 19, 2017 8:20 PM UTC President Donald Trump’s [approval rating](http://time.com/4774551/donald-trump-approval-rating-may-quinnipiac-poll/) has dropped to its lowest point since he was inaugurated in January, a new poll has found. The [Reuters/Ipsos poll](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-poll-idUSKCN18F2AH?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm%5Fsource=Twitter&utm%5Fmedium=Social) published Friday found that just 38% of American adults approve of Trump, while 56% disapprove. The remaining 6% said that they had “mixed feelings” about the president. The survey was taken between May 14 and May 18, a whirlwind period in which Trump’s [firing of FBI Director James Comey](http://time.com/4778500/trump-james-comey-fired-poll/) and reports of the president’s [disclosure of highly-classified information to Russian officials](http://time.com/4781096/donald-trump-classified-information-russians-kremlin-white-house/) dominated the news cycle. [Another recent poll](http://time.com/4785671/donald-trump-poll-approval-rating/) conducted by Politico and Morning Consult found that 53% of respondents disapproved of the job Trump is doing as president, while only 41% approved, the lowest rating in that poll since he took office. Trump has tried to justify his decision to fire Comey and defend his recent comments to Russian officials, which were legal despite public outcry, but the incidents appear to be dampening his popularity. Even Republican voters are starting to show frustration, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, as 23% said they disapproved of Trump — up from 16% in the same poll from last week. The Reuters poll was conducted online in English across the United States with 1,971 adult respondents, including 721 Republicans and 795 Democrats. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the entire group and 4 points for the Democrats and Republicans. ## Transcript [00:00] Why did you fire Director Comey? Cuz he wasn't doing a [00:03] good job, very simple. He was not doing a good job. When [00:06] you hear what was said by the FBI Director today, he talked [00:09] about extremely careless. She was extremely Careless [00:14] that's a tremendous word. Today is the best evidence ever [00:18] that we've seen that our system is absolutely, [00:23] totally rigged. The State Department and the FBI Colluded, [00:28] got together, to make Hillary Clinton look less guilty. [00:33] I have great respect for the FBI, for righting this wrong. The [00:37] American people fully understand her corruption, and we [00:41] hope all, all justice will finally [00:46] be served. I respect the fact that Director Comey Was [00:51] able to come back after what he did. And it took guts [00:56] for director Comey to make the move that he made in [01:00] light of the kind of opposition he had. And there's [01:06] [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ LAUGH ] He's become more famous than [01:07] me. [ LAUGH ] [01:16] [ APPLAUSE ] Was it a mistake not to ask Jim Comey to [01:19] step down from the FBI at the onset of your presidency. Is it [01:22] too late now to ask him to step down. No, it's not too late [01:25] but I have confidence and we'll see what happens. When [01:27] Jim Comey came out He saved Hillary Clinton. People [01:30] don't realize that. He saved her life. Why did you fire [01:32] James Comey? Cuz he wasn't doing a good job. 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