--- title: Seth Meyers on Trump Approval Rating description: Seth Meyers took to his show on Thursday night to shred Trump's approval ratings. canonical: https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-31T15:34:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:25.962Z og:title: Seth Meyers on Trump's Approval Ratings: 'Worse than Nixon's' og:description: Trump has the lowest rating of any new president og:url: https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Seth Meyers on Trump's Approval Ratings: 'Worse than Nixon's' twitter:description: Trump has the lowest rating of any new president twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Seth Meyers Shreds Trump's New Approval Ratings Low  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 31, 2017 3:34 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 31, 2017 3:34 PM UTC Following [the House Republicans’ failure to repeal Barack Obama’s health care law](http://time.com/4716253/is-president-trump-really-trying-again-on-health-care/), President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have [hit a new low](http://time.com/4714174/donald-trump-gallup-approval-rating-36-percent/), something that [Seth Meyers](http://time.com/4714824/seth-meyers-trump-deal-making-sham/) was happy to address during his Thursday night episode of _Late Night._ Meyers pointed out during his “A Closer Look” segment that according to [Gallop](http://www.gallup.com/poll/207518/trump-approval-rating-unusually-low-unusually-early.aspx), Trump’s approval rating had dipped to 35% on Tuesday. “This is supposed to be the honeymoon period,” Meyers joked. “And Trump should be good at those! He’s had three of them.” Meyers noted that both President Richard Nixon during his Watergate Scandal and President George W. Bush during Hurricane Katrina had higher approval ratings than Trump’s current one. (Nixon’s job approval later dropped to 51% in a mid-January [Gallup survey](http://www.gallup.com/poll/4258/history-shows-presidential-job-approval-ratings-can-plummet-rapidly.aspx) in the wake of the first criminal trial of Watergate defendants in 1973.) The president has still yet to dip to the same lows of Bush who saw his approval rating dip to 25% and Nixon, who at one point had the approval of 24% of the American public. Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/"},"headline":"Seth Meyers Shreds Trump's New Approval Ratings Low","datePublished":"2017-03-31T15:34:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:25.962Z","description":"Trump has the lowest rating of any new president","url":"https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Seth Meyers","Late Night","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4720533/seth-meyers-on-trump-approval-ratings/","name":"Seth Meyers Shreds Trump's New Approval Ratings Low"}}]}] ```