--- description: A new Gallup poll finds Trump's approval rating has fallen to 34% with 61% of those surveyed disapproving of his performance. title: President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another All-Time Low image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4915db69fd644b33/6988d9afe76ad28e0262eb87/gettyimages-831369982.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [White House](/tag/white-house/) ## White House Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another All-Time Low by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:45 AM CUTPublished: Aug 14, 2017 5:49 PM CUT  U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement on the violence this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia at the White House on August 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in Charlottesville when a car allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. barreled into a crowd of counter-protesters following violence at the 'Unite the Right' rally. Two Virginia state police troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while covering events on the ground. Pool—Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement on the violence this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia at the White House on August 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in Charlottesville when a car allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. barreled into a crowd of counter-protesters following violence at the 'Unite the Right' rally. Two Virginia state police troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while covering events on the ground. Pool—Getty ImagesPool—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:45 AM CUTPublished: Aug 14, 2017 5:49 PM CUT President Donald Trump’s approval rating hit a new low on Monday, just two days after he struggled to address the country in the wake of a [racist attack at a protest in Charlottesville, Va](http://time.com/4899810/donald-trump-charlottesville/?xid=homepage "undefined"). Trump faced criticism for initially failing to name white supremacist groups in his statement denouncing the violence. One person died and 19 others were injured after a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. According to Gallup’s daily tracker of Trump’s approval rating, only [34% of Americans approve](http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx "undefined") of the work the president is doing as of Monday. The president has been in office for just over 200 days; this is the lowest his Gallup approval rating has been in that time. Some 61% of voters disapprove — a record high for the poll. The numbers come as part of a three-day polling average including Friday, Saturday and Sunday, meaning some respondents were polled before the violence in Charlottesville. The new low comes a little over a week after a poll that showed the president’s approval rating had even begun to slip among members of his base. Despite Trump tweeting otherwise last Monday, an August [Quinnipiac University poll found that 76% of Republicans approve](http://fortune.com/2017/08/07/donald-trump-polls-twitter-supporters-base/ "undefined") of the President, down from 84% a month earlier. That same poll found that support for the president had also slipped among whites without a college degree. At the time, White House aide Kellyanne Conway said the numbers showed the president’s supporters wanted him to focus. “They are telling him just enact your program … focus on the agenda,” she told [_ABC News_‘s This Week. ](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-17-kellyanne-conway-thom-tillis-chhttp://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-17-kellyanne-conway-thom-tillis-chris/story?id=49052450ris/story?id=49052450 "undefined") Gallup surveyed 1,500 American adults and its poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus three percentage points. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4899956/donald-trump-approval-rating-all-time-low-gallup-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4899956/donald-trump-approval-rating-all-time-low-gallup-poll/"},"headline":"President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another All-Time Low","datePublished":"2017-08-14T17:49:02.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T04:45:51.000Z","description":"Only 34% of Americans approve of the president's performance, according to Gallup","url":"https://time.com/4899956/donald-trump-approval-rating-all-time-low-gallup-poll/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4915db69fd644b33/6988d9afe76ad28e0262eb87/gettyimages-831369982.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4915db69fd644b33/6988d9afe76ad28e0262eb87/gettyimages-831369982.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Makes Statement About Violence In Charlottesville, Virginia","caption":"President Trump Makes Statement About Violence In Charlottesville, Virginia","creditText":"Pool—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/4899956/donald-trump-approval-rating-all-time-low-gallup-poll/","name":"President Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit Another All-Time Low"}}]}] ```