--- ---  # President Trump's Approval Rating Is Back Up to 42% by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 19, 2017 11:34 PM UTC  Real estate tycoon Donald Trump flashes the thumbs-up as he arrives on stage for the start of the prime time Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump flashes the thumbs-up as he arrives on stage for the start of the prime time Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015.MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Apr 19, 2017 11:34 PM UTC President Trump’s approval rating has bounced up to 42% according to a [recent Gallup poll](http://www.gallup.com/poll/201617/gallup-daily-trump-job-approval.aspx) — a slight victory for the president whose [numbers have been low](http://time.com/4725494/president-donald-trump-approval-rating/) during his first months in office. Trump dropped to 42% eight days after taking office. His approval ratings have since dipped to numbers as low as 35% and have not gone above 45%, according to Gallup. On April 14, Trump stood at 39% on Gallup’s tracker. According to Gallup, 52% of Americans disapprove of Trump. To obtain its results, Gallup surveys about 1,500 Americans by phone each day, and has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. Trump’s ratings have been well below those of his predecessor, President Barack Obama. In April of 2009, Obama had a [63% approval rating](http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx), according to Gallup. Donald Trump Approval Rating Back to 42% ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4747538/donald-trump-approval-rating-gallup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4747538/donald-trump-approval-rating-gallup/"},"headline":"President Trump's Approval Rating Is Back Up to 42%","datePublished":"2017-04-19T23:34:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:30:35.871Z","description":"According to Gallup","url":"https://time.com/4747538/donald-trump-approval-rating-gallup/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71cbac6be6bd97bd/6988c3a72dce01a7b79ed1fd/donald-trump-approval-rating.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71cbac6be6bd97bd/6988c3a72dce01a7b79ed1fd/donald-trump-approval-rating.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-DEBATE","creditText":"MANDEL NGAN—AFP/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/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4747538/donald-trump-approval-rating-gallup/","name":"President Trump's Approval Rating Is Back Up to 42%"}}]}] ```