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Public profile
Main article: Public image of Donald Trump
Approval ratings and scholar surveys
Further information: Opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration and Historical rankings of presidents of the United States
Trump was the only president to never reach a 50% approval rating in the Gallup poll dating to 1938. The approval ratings showed a record-high partisan gap: 88 percent among Republicans, 7 percent among Democrats.[703] Until September 2020, the ratings were unusually stable, reaching a high of 49 percent and a low of 35 percent.[704] Trump finished his term with a record-low approval rating of between 29 percent and 34 percent (the lowest of any president since modern polling began) and a record-low average of 41 percent throughout his presidency.[703][705]
In Gallup's annual poll asking Americans to name the man they admire the most, Trump placed second to Obama in 2017 and 2018, tied with Obama for most admired man in 2019, and was named most admired in 2020.[706][707] Since Gallup started conducting the poll in 1948, Trump is the first elected president not to be named most admired in his first year in office.