Nia-Malika Henderson, Columnist

Trump’s Popularity Keeps Sinking, Issue by Issue

January 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC

Nia-Malika Henderson is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former senior political reporter for CNN and the Washington Post, she has covered politics and campaigns for almost two decades.

Sinking in the polls.
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On the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Donald Trump declared in a low-energy press conference that America is the hottest country in the world. He flashed a thick stack of pages that, he said, listed his accomplishments, among them renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Yet in the first year of his second term, Americans have grown cold on Trump, souring on his handling of the major aspects of his presidency.