Donald Trump

=== Scholarly assessment and public approval surveys ===
{{Further|Opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration|Historical rankings of presidents of the United States}}

[[C-SPAN]] ranked Trump fourth-lowest overall in their [[Historical rankings of presidents of the United States#2021 C-SPAN|Presidential Historians Survey 2021]], with Trump rated lowest in the leadership characteristics categories for moral authority and administrative skills.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|last=Sheehey|first=Maeve|date=June 30, 2021|title=Trump debuts at 41st in C-SPAN presidential rankings|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/trump-cspan-president-ranking-497184 |access-date=March 31, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Brockell|first=Gillian|title=Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn't last.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/30/presidential-rankings-2021-cspan-historians/ |access-date=July 1, 2021|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 30, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/|title=Presidential Historians Survey 2021|work=[[C-SPAN]] |access-date=June 30, 2021}}</ref> The [[Siena College Research Institute]]'s 2022 survey [[Historical rankings of presidents of the United States#2022 Siena College|ranked Trump]] 43rd out of 45 presidents. He was ranked last on background, integrity, intelligence, foreign policy accomplishments, and executive appointments, and second-last on ability to compromise, executive ability, and present overall view. He was ranked near the bottom in all categories except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership.<ref name="scri_22">{{cite web|url=https://scri.siena.edu/2022/06/22/american-presidents-greatest-and-worst/|title=American Presidents: Greatest and Worst|publisher=[[Siena College Research Institute]]|date=June 22, 2022|access-date=July 11, 2022}}</ref>

Trump was the only president never to reach a 50 percent approval rating in the Gallup poll dating to 1938. His approval ratings showed a record-high partisan gap: 88 percent among Republicans and 7 percent among Democrats.<ref name="Jones">{{cite web|first=Jeffrey M.|last=Jones|title=Last Trump Job Approval 34%; Average Is Record-Low 41%|url=https://news.gallup.com/poll/328637/last-trump-job-approval-average-record-low.aspx|work=[[Gallup (company)|Gallup]]|date=January 18, 2021|access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref> Until September 2020, the ratings were unusually stable, reaching a high of 49 percent and a low of 35 percent.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ezra|last=Klein|url=https://www.vox.com/2020/9/2/21409364/trump-approval-rating-2020-election-voters-coronavirus-convention-polls|title=Can anything change Americans' minds about Donald Trump? The eerie stability of Trump's approval rating, explained.|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|date=September 2, 2020|access-date=October 10, 2021}}</ref> Trump finished his term with an approval rating between 29 and 34 percent&mdash;the lowest of any president since modern polling began&mdash;and a record-low average of 41 percent throughout his presidency.<ref name="Jones" /><ref>{{cite web|first=Harry|last=Enten|url=https://cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/trump-approval-analysis/|title=Trump finishes with worst first term approval rating ever|work=[[CNN]]|date=January 16, 2021|access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref>

In [[Gallup's most admired man and woman poll|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 first in 2019, and placed first in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.gallup.com/poll/1678/most-admired-man-woman.aspx|title=Most Admired Man and Woman|work=[[Gallup (company)|Gallup]]|date=December 28, 2006 |access-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930212930/https://news.gallup.com/poll/1678/most-admired-man-woman.aspx |archive-date=September 30, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/531906-trump-ends-obamas-12-year-run-as-most-admired-man-gallup|title=Trump ends Obama's 12-year run as most admired man: Gallup|last=Budryk|first=Zack|date=December 29, 2020|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=December 31, 2020}}</ref> Since [[Gallup (company)|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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Panetta|first=Grace|work=[[Business Insider]]|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-barack-obama-tie-2019-most-admired-man-gallup-2019-12|title=Donald Trump and Barack Obama are tied for 2019's most admired man in the US|date=December 30, 2019|access-date=July 24, 2020}}</ref>

A Gallup poll in 134 countries comparing the approval ratings of U.S. leadership between 2016 and 2017 found that Trump led Obama in job approval in only 29 countries, most of them non-democracies;<ref>{{cite web|last=Datta|first=Monti|title=3 countries where Trump is popular|url=http://theconversation.com/3-countries-where-trump-is-popular-120317|date=September 16, 2019|access-date=October 3, 2021|work=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]}}</ref> approval of U.S. leadership plummeted among allies and G7 countries. Overall ratings were similar to those in the last two years of the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush presidency]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rating World Leaders: 2018 The U.S. vs. Germany, China and Russia|url=https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000161-0647-da3c-a371-867f6acc0001|publisher=[[Gallup (company)|Gallup]]|access-date=October 3, 2021}} Page 9</ref> By mid-2020, only 16 percent of international respondents to a 13-nation [[Pew Research]] poll expressed confidence in Trump, lower than Russia's [[Vladimir Putin]] and China's [[Xi Jinping]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wike|first1=Richard|last2=Fetterolf|first2=Janell|last3=Mordecai|first3=Mara|access-date=December 24, 2020|title=U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly|work=[[Pew Research Center]]|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plummets-internationally-as-most-say-country-has-handled-coronavirus-badly/|date=September 15, 2020}}</ref>