America Doesn't Like Trump: Obama and Even JD Vance are More Popular

Donald Trump is the least popular living president right now, falling beneath Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as he pushes his wildly unpopular bill and chaotically imposes TACO tariffs.

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Donald J. Trump is the least popular living president, just five months into his second term. The honeymoon is over.

Trump is the most unpopular living president according to a YouGov list for the second quarter of 2025 (Q2 2025), landing at the 17th most popular among politicians. 37% of adults have a positive opinion of him, which lands him just a few notches above the Republican base.

That is not good news for House Republicans in swing districts.

Trump is far behind former President Barack Obama, who is number two. Obama comes just after former President Jimmy Carter, at number one, who died in December of 2024.

Obama’s signature legislation was the Affordable Healthcare Act, aka Obamacare, which not only gave people access to affordable insurance but also protected pre-existing conditions including pregnancy, and made well-woman visits free.

While the ACA was incessantly disparaged at the time by Republicans who claimed you wouldn’t be able to pick your own doctor, Trump and Republicans have just taken away all medical care from 17 million people… Picking their own doctor will be pretty low on the list of Americans’ priorities when they can’t see any doctor at all.

Republicans also falsely criticized the ACA as being a “death panel” (earning Sarah Palin the “lie of the year” award, according to PolitiFact), claiming the ACA would establish a panel of government bureaucrats who would decide whether individuals, like the elderly or disabled, were "worthy of medical care".

KFF pointed out how much this Republican lie permeated the landscape:

One way we know about the amplification of the death panel myth is from our polling (the kind of polling we are replicating now in our health misinformation tracking polls). In 2010, a remarkable 41% of the public said they believed there were death panels in the ACA. And the lie persisted: in 2014, the same number said there were death panels in the law. In 2019, the number was still 38%. By 2023, as the law became more popular and Obama faded from the scene, the number who believed the lie fell to 8%. But the myth still had some staying power: 70% still said they weren’t sure if there were death panels in the ACA.

Killing People Might Not be Popular

Surprise! People do not want to die. They especially do not want to die due to the government or lack of affordable healthcare. We need only glance at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to grasp this fundamental concept.