--- title: Donald Trump Polling: Rasmussen Shows Record Low Approval description: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential tracking poll for July 31 shows Trump with a 39% approval rating, a record low for this poll. canonical: https://time.com/4880842/donald-trump-polling-approval-rating-rasmussen/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-31T16:55:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:48:13.441Z article:section: Politics og:title: Even President Trump's Favorite Poll Shows a Record Low Approval og:description: The first time his approval ratings have fallen under 40% in this poll. og:url: https://time.com/4880842/donald-trump-polling-approval-rating-rasmussen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f961a22eb54fed3/6988d7afbc6cfc718b3e270e/trump-health-bill.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Trump Remarks on Obamacare og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Even President Trump's Favorite Poll Shows a Record Low Approval twitter:description: The first time his approval ratings have fallen under 40% in this poll. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f961a22eb54fed3/6988d7afbc6cfc718b3e270e/trump-health-bill.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Even President Trump's Favorite Poll Shows a Record Low Approval > Sponsored content. 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Chris Kleponis—picture-alliance/dpa/AP  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Jul 31, 2017 4:55 PM UTC President Trump is a pretty vocal critic of public opinion polls, regularly calling them [“fake news”](http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/trump-polls-fake-news-237520) when they look bad for him. But there’s one exception: Rasmussen Reports. As president, Trump has regularly [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/876394578777174021?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F4822956%2Fdonald-trump-tweets-rasmussen-poll-barack-obama%2F) links to the polling outfit, [long a favorite among conservatives](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2012/09/17/rasmussen-the-gops-cure-for-the-common-poll/), when it’s shown him doing better on his approval rating than other polls. Now, even Rasmussen is showing Trump doing poorly. The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll for July 31 shows Trump with a record low approval rating for their poll, the latest to show support for the president is slipping. Just 39% of likely U.S. voters approve of Trump’s performance as President according to the [Rasmussen tracking poll](http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public%5Fcontent/politics/trump%5Fadministration/prez%5Ftrack%5Fjul31) released July 31, while 26% strongly approve, and 61% disapprove. This is the first time Trump’s approval rating has ever fallen below 40% in Rasmussen. The poll of 1,500 likely voters had a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points. One reason that Rasmussen’s numbers may look different from other pollsters is that it polls likely voters, while outfits such as Gallup poll registered voters unless the poll is conducted closer to an election. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4880842/donald-trump-polling-approval-rating-rasmussen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4880842/donald-trump-polling-approval-rating-rasmussen/"},"headline":"Even President Trump's Favorite Poll Shows a Record Low Approval","datePublished":"2017-07-31T16:55:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:48:13.441Z","description":"This is the first time Trump's approval ratings have fallen under 40% in this poll","url":"https://time.com/4880842/donald-trump-polling-approval-rating-rasmussen/","keywords":["Polling","White House","Polls","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f961a22eb54fed3/6988d7afbc6cfc718b3e270e/trump-health-bill.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f961a22eb54fed3/6988d7afbc6cfc718b3e270e/trump-health-bill.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Remarks on Obamacare","caption":"Trump Remarks on Obamacare","creditText":"Chris Kleponis—picture-alliance/dpa/AP","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/polling/","name":"Polling"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4880842/donald-trump-polling-approval-rating-rasmussen/","name":"Even President Trump's Favorite Poll Shows a Record Low Approval"}}]}] ```