--- description: President Donald Trump's approval rating hit 49%, the highest it's been in almost a year, according to a new Rasmussen poll. title: Trump's Approval Rating Is the Highest It's Been in a Year image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6220f1ce0c18a280/6988fa7ebc6cfcd1d93e4df5/donald-trump-sotu.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 * [Polls](/tag/polls/) ## Polls Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Trump's Approval Rating Is the Highest It's Been in Nearly a Year, Poll Finds  by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:21 PM CUTPublished: Feb 3, 2018 3:58 PM CUT  President Donald Trump smiles while delivering the State of the Union address. President Donald Trump smiles while delivering the State of the Union address.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:21 PM CUTPublished: Feb 3, 2018 3:58 PM CUT A new poll says President Donald Trump’s approval rating is the highest it’s been in nearly a year — a fact the President promptly took to Twitter to reiterate. [Rasmussen Reports’ daily Presidential Tracking Poll](http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public%5Fcontent/politics/political%5Fupdates/prez%5Ftrack%5Ffeb02 "undefined") for Friday listed Trump’s approval rating at 49% among likely U.S. voters, the highest approval rating Trump has earned since March 7, 2017\. Another 49% of respondents disapprove of Trump’s performance, according to Rasmussen. “Rasmussen just announced that my approval rating jumped to 49%, a far better number than I had in winning the Election, and higher than certain ‘sacred cows,'” Trump tweeted in response. “Other Trump polls are way up also. So why does the media refuse to write this? Oh well, someday!” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/959798726381457409) Trump’s [approval rating during his first year in office stayed between 35% and 45%](http://time.com/5103776/donald-trump-approval-rating-graph/ "undefined"), the worst of the seven most recent presidents, according to Gallup. Nonetheless, a late 2017 Gallup poll found that [Trump is the second-most admired man in the U.S.](http://time.com/5080498/admiration-poll-donald-trump/ "undefined"), after only his predecessor, Barack Obama. An NBC/Wall Street _Journal_ poll from around the same time, however, [found that only 36% of registered voters would support Trump for reelection in 2020](http://time.com/5073531/donald-trump-2020-reelection-poll/ "undefined"). In the latest Rasmussen poll, which dropped just a few days after [Trump’s first State of the Union address](http://time.com/5125174/trump-state-of-the-union-address-transcript/ "undefined"), 35% of respondents said they “strongly approve” of Trump’s performance, versus 38% who “strongly disapprove.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5132016/donald-trump-approval-rating-rasmussen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5132016/donald-trump-approval-rating-rasmussen/"},"headline":"Trump's Approval Rating Is the Highest It's Been in Nearly a Year, Poll Finds","datePublished":"2018-02-03T15:58:53.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T22:21:17.000Z","description":"The president reiterated the news on Twitter","url":"https://time.com/5132016/donald-trump-approval-rating-rasmussen/","keywords":["Polls","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6220f1ce0c18a280/6988fa7ebc6cfcd1d93e4df5/donald-trump-sotu.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6220f1ce0c18a280/6988fa7ebc6cfcd1d93e4df5/donald-trump-sotu.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Delivers His First State Of The Union Address","caption":"President Trump Delivers His First State Of The Union Address","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via 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/polls/","name":"Polls"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5132016/donald-trump-approval-rating-rasmussen/","name":"Trump's Approval Rating Is the Highest It's Been in Nearly a Year, Poll Finds"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Here Are the Promises President Trump Kept and Broke in His First Year","description":"Donald Trump was elected president after a campaign of bold promises. 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