Gallup ends 88-year run of presidential approval polling amid Trump attacks on pollsters

Gallup announced on February 14, 2026 that it would discontinue its presidential approval rating tracking, ending a practice maintained since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938. The final Gallup approval rating showed Trump at 36 percent in December 2025, among the lowest first-year marks in the poll's history. Gallup cited a "strategic shift" in research priorities. The announcement followed months of Trump attacking polling firms and a January 2026 threat to expand a defamation suit against the New York Times over a 40 percent approval poll.