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OUTLETS DISAGREEWednesday 23 September 2026

Outlets disagree: Poll field dates for Reuters/Ipsos survey: completed Sunday September 20 versus conducted September 17–29

aljazeera.com (September 17–20); independent.co.uk (completed Sunday); lohud.com (completed Sunday, September 20); ibtimes.com (September 17–20) the full text

As published

13 pages captured at the time, in each outlet's own typography. Open one to read the copy held outside the publisher's control.

reuters.com as published: EXCLUSIVE: Trump approval falls to record low of 32% as high costs bite, Reuters/Ipsos poll findsreuters.com2026-09-22 16:51:52aljazeera.com as published: Trump approval rating hits career low of 32% amid Iran war, high costsaljazeera.com2026-09-22 16:51:52commondreams.org as published: As Iran War and Economic Struggles Persist, Trump Approval Rating Hits Record Lowcommondreams.org2026-09-23 15:48:05ibtimes.com as published: Trump’s Approval Rating Hits a New Low. Just 17% Back His Handling of the Cost of Living.ibtimes.com2026-09-23 15:48:05independent.co.uk as published: Trump’s approval rating falls to career low in new pollindependent.co.uk2026-09-22 16:51:52lohud.com as published: Trump approval rating hits career low of 32 percentlohud.com2026-09-23 15:48:05ms.now as published: ‘Lowest of his entire political career.’ Maddow shames Trump’s record low approval ratingms.now2026-09-23 15:48:05newsweek.com as published: Donald Trump's approval rating hits all time lownewsweek.com2026-09-23 15:48:05parstoday.ir as published: Trump’s approval rating falls to historic low less than two months before congressional electionsparstoday.ir2026-09-23 15:48:05rappler.com as published: Trump approval falls to record low as high costs bite, poll findsrappler.com2026-09-22 16:51:52scmp.com as published: Trump approval hits career low as living costs bite, new poll showsscmp.com2026-09-22 16:51:52thehill.com as published: Trump approval falls to all-time low in Reuters/Ipsos poll ⁠thehill.com2026-09-22 16:51:52usatoday.com as published: Trump's approval rating marks lowest level of his career, poll findsusatoday.com2026-09-23 15:48:05

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newsweek.com

  • By comparison, other recent polls have generally shown Trump with approval in the mid-to-high 30s, although that has differed depending on policy areas.

named elsewhere in the same article: Trump administration

Same storyEarlier: Two separate approval polls released in late September 2025 show President Trump's…Earlier: Reuters/Ipsos released a poll showing U.S. President Donald Trump's approval rating…Each entry records what was published on its own date and is not edited afterwards.

What this entry found

  • ONLY ONE OUTLET HAD THIS

    newsweek.com carried 5 details no other outlet reported.

    • The American Research Group poll showed 68 percent disapproval of Trump's job performance, up 2 percent from the August survey
    • The last time a president's approval was in the 20s was President George W. Bush at the end of 2008
    • In the American Research Group poll, positive views on the economy are at 26 percent, and 72 percent of those surveyed said the U.S. economy was getting worse
    • Kyle Kondik from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics told Newsweek that the American Research Group poll is an outlier but that overall Trump's numbers are worse than they were eight years ago
    • The American Research Group poll surveyed 1,100 American adults

Day name corrected

The summary below named a weekday that does not match its own date. The date is as written; only the day name was recomputed from it.

  • Sunday, September 20, 2025 → Sunday, September 20, 2026

How the poll was reported

5 of 6 stated across the articles in this entry.

  • The articles describe a sampled poll rather than an opt-in one.
  • Pollster: Reuters/Ipsos and American Research Group.
  • Who was sampled: U.S. adults.
  • Sample size: 1,277 U.S. adults (Reuters/Ipsos); 1,100 American adults (American Research Group).
  • Margin of error: 3 percentage points (Reuters/Ipsos); not stated (American Research Group).
  • When conducted: September 17–20, 2025 (Reuters/Ipsos); September 16–20, 2025 (American Research Group).
  • Commissioned by: not stated in any article.
  • Question wording published: not in any article.

This lists what the articles said and did not say. A detail missing here may appear in the pollster's own release; it was not in the coverage.

13independent outlets
What happened, for context

Two separate polls released in mid-to-late September 2025 show President Trump's approval rating at historic lows. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found his approval at 32%, the lowest of his career, down from 35% the previous week and 47% at the start of his second term in January 2025. An American Research Group poll showed his approval at 29%. Both polls cite dissatisfaction with the cost of living and the Iran war as contributing factors.

8 of 13 articles were readable. Headline only, no body text retrieved, for: ms.now, rappler.com, reuters.com, thehill.com, usatoday.com. Nothing below is drawn from those outlets beyond their headline.

Who reported it

  • reuters.comWIRE
    • aljazeera.comINDEP
    • scmp.comINDEP
    one owner · DMGT (Daily Mail)
  • commondreams.orgUNCLASSIFIED
  • ibtimes.comUNCLASSIFIED
  • independent.co.ukINDEP
  • lohud.comUNCLASSIFIED
  • ms.nowUNCLASSIFIED
  • newsweek.comINDEP
  • parstoday.irUNCLASSIFIED
  • rappler.comUNCLASSIFIED
  • thehill.comINDEP
  • usatoday.comINDEP

References

Carried by multiple outlets

  • Trump's approval rating in the Reuters/Ipsos poll is 32 percent, the lowest of his political careerreuters.com, aljazeera.com, commondreams.org, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, lohud.com, parstoday.ir, scmp.com
  • The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted over four days and completed on Sunday, September 20, 2026aljazeera.com, independent.co.uk, lohud.com, scmp.com
  • Trump's approval rating among Republicans fell to 73 percent in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, down from 82 percent the previous weekaljazeera.com, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, lohud.com, scmp.com
  • Overall approval was 35 percent in the previous week's Reuters/Ipsos pollaljazeera.com, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, lohud.com, scmp.com
  • Trump's approval rating was 47 percent in Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted immediately after his swearing-in in January 2025aljazeera.com, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, lohud.com
  • Only 17 percent of respondents approved of Trump's handling of the cost of living in the Reuters/Ipsos pollaljazeera.com, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, lohud.com, scmp.com
  • and 5 more, not shown

Reported by one outlet only

  • Trump's previous low approval rating was 33%, first recorded in December 2017, and also recorded for three consecutive weeks in August 2025only lohud.com
  • During the polling period, Trump banned three major news organizations from the White House and said Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could be demolished if his name could not be added to the buildingonly lohud.com
  • Among Republicans, approval of Trump's handling of living costs fell from 70% earlier in 2025 to 44% according to Ipsosonly ibtimes.com
  • For the first time, Republican voters disapprove of Trump's handling of the cost of living, with 51% registering dissatisfactiononly commondreams.org
  • The American Research Group poll showed 68 percent disapproval of Trump's job performance, up 2 percent from the August surveyonly newsweek.com
  • Trump's approval rating in the American Research Group poll is 10 points lower than in September 2018, shortly before the Republican Party lost 41 seats in the House of Representatives in that year's midterm electiononly commondreams.org

Reported unevenly

  • Poll field dates for Reuters/Ipsos survey: completed Sunday September 20 versus conducted September 17–29stated by aljazeera.com (September 17–20), independent.co.uk (completed Sunday), lohud.com (completed Sunday, September 20), ibtimes.com (September 17–20) · absent from parstoday.ir (September 17–29)

Not yet confirmed against a primary source

  • Reuters/Ipsos poll field dates: parstoday.ir reports 'September 17 to 29' while lohud.com, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, and aljazeera.com consistently report 'September 17–20' or 'completed Sunday, September 20.' Verify which dates appear in Reuters's official poll release.
  • Confirm whether the Trump administration made the specific statements about the Kennedy Center demolition and news organization bans during the polling period (September 17–20, 2025), as these are reported only by lohud.com.

What was checked, and against what

Nothing here could be settled from a primary source. 2 cannot be established from public sources and are listed below. Every document is linked so you can read the same record we did. Anything not confirmed is listed as such rather than left out.

  • cannot be established Reuters/Ipsos poll field dates: parstoday.ir reports 'September 17 to 29' while lohud.com, ibtimes.com, independent.co.uk, and aljazeera.com consistently report 'September 17–20' or 'completed Sunday, September 20.' Verify which dates appear in Reuters's official poll release.The disagreement between outlets is itself the finding. No primary source is needed to report that they differ.
  • cannot be established Confirm whether the Trump administration made the specific statements about the Kennedy Center demolition and news organization bans during the polling period (September 17–20, 2025), as these are reported only by lohud.com.The disagreement between outlets is itself the finding. No primary source is needed to report that they differ.