Harry Enten, CNN's chief data correspondent, analyzed the data that shows how this happens President Donald Trump He has made a historic comeback in his approval ratings since entering the White House this week.
“The American people really like what they see, at least compared to where Donald Trump started eight years ago,” Enten told anchor Kate Bolduan on Friday's CNN News Central.
A shared Reuters/Ipsos poll Taken this week found that more Americans approve of Trump's presidency now than when he took office in 2017.
Trump began his first term with a net approval rating of -3 points, but Trump now stands at a net approval rating of +6, up nine points from January 2017, Enten said.
Harry Enten, CNN's chief data correspondent, analyzed President Donald Trump's approval ratings on the liberal network on Friday. (CNN/screenshot)
“If we borrow Donald Trump’s phrase, this is a big league,” he noted.
Enten said that Trump's performance with Americans is not only better than it was in January 2017; for him Approval ratings It is higher now than it was throughout his first term.
Previously, Trump's highest approval rating ever was +3 points in March 2017, according to Enten.
“He is in better shape than he was at any time during his entire first term,” the reporter commented. “Things have pretty much turned around.”
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US President Donald Trump signs pardons for those accused on January 6 in the Oval Office of the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, United States, January 20, 2025. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
He continued: “This is a very different Donald Trump. He is leading a very different administration in the way he attacks things, and the American public is more attuned to him than they have been at any time during his entire first term.”
Enten said he could not find any other president whose net approval rating in the first month of his second term was higher than it was throughout his entire first term in office.
“[T]rump has made history as the first president to be more popular at the start of his second term than at any time in his first,” the reporter posted on X.
President Donald Trump leaves his indoor presidential inauguration in Washington, Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Fox News poll Released on January 15, it found that Trump's favorable rating had jumped to 50%, up 2 points from October, and an all-time high in a Fox News poll. Equal share has an unfavorable view.
