Why don’t you ask him?

Thanks

Wrong. The approval rating reached a low on April 29 at 45.1% approval, which fell around Trump's 100-day mark. It reached a new low of 42.3% on Nov. 14, as the controversy on Jeffrey Epstein's emails heated up following the end of the government shutdown. While it rebounded slightly since then, the disapproval rate has risen to a new high of 55.4% on Nov. 20.

You're cherry picking the most positive poll in existence,
and he is still below 50%, in your most positive poll.

The polling aggregator Silver Bulletin (built on the work of Nate Silver) reports his approval at about 41.2 % as of Nov 22, 2025.
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A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found his approval at only 38 %
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Barack Obama's popularity, as measured by various job approval polls, was frequently less than 50% during his time in office.
While he won the national popular vote in both his presidential elections with over 50% (52.9% in 2008 and 51.1% in 2012), his day-to-day or weekly job approval ratings fluctuated considerably.

Key points regarding his approval ratings:

Early Presidency: He started with a high approval rating of 67% in January 2009.

Declines: His rating gradually dropped over the next two years, hitting a low of 40%
in September and October 2011.

Mid-Presidency: For a period of about three years, from March 2013 to March 2016, his approval rating consistently stayed below 50%, never dipping below 40% but also never rising above 49% during that time.

End of Term: His popularity rose again toward the end of his second term, finishing his presidency with a final weekly rating of 59% in mid-January 2017.

It is important to say that Obama didn't have majorities in congress, so he couldn't do anything he wanted to do. Trump has a majority in congress. That doesn't really matter, because Trump is the king of national emergencies and executive orders, bypassing congress. He also has a supreme court that mostly lets him do whatever he wants.

That is significant, because it means that Obama was not very popular for not being able to do the things that he promised, while Trump is unpopular for doing the things that he's doing. Trump can do what he wants, but is still ignoring lots of promises that he made.

It saddens me to see that the American public doesn't understand this,
and values one of the best presidents that the US ever had only a bit higher
than the worst one.

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