Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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A new InsiderAdvantage poll out this week shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating soaring following a productive summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week and more good news on the economic front.
According to the survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted from August 15-17, 54 percent approve of Trump’s job performance, while 43.6 percent disapprove. Trump’s +10 net positive approval rating is a significant increase from his +2 net approval rating in InsiderAdvantage’s previous poll in July.
Notably, the survey found that a majority of all voters under 65 approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while those over 65 disapprove by a 56.7 percent to 40.1 percent margin. 57.3 percent of respondents aged 18-39 and 56.5 percent of respondents aged 40-64 said they approve of Trump’s job performance.
In another positive sign for Trump and Republicans generally, 47.2 percent of Hispanic respondents and 23.7 percent of Black respondents approved of the President’s job performance. Trump won about 48 percent of the Hispanic vote and 15 percent of the Black vote in 2024 – indicating that he is holding steady with Hispanics and gaining even more ground with Blacks.
InsiderAdvantage pollster Matt Towery explained that the president’s approval continues to trend upward.
“He has improved his numbers among African-Americans and Hispanic-Latinos,” Towery said. “White voters are at a near record 64 percent. Voters under 65 years of age now approve of his job performance by wide margins. Only the nation’s oldest voters disapprove of his job performance, which is consistent with our prior surveys.”
As AMAC Newsline has previously reported, Trump’s flagging performance with seniors is a persistent problem amid widespread left-wing fearmongering on issues such as Social Security and Medicare. Many older Americans incorrectly believe that provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill which kick illegal aliens off Medicaid and institute modest work requirements for welfare will negatively impact seniors. In reality, those changes are specifically designed to preserve benefits for the American citizens who need them most.
InsiderAdvantage was one of the most accurate pollsters of the 2024 presidential election. The group’s last polling data for Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina showing Trump winning was accurate, while other pollsters had Trump losing several of these states.
Trump currently has a 44.4 percent approval rating according to the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average, which aggregates results from many polls nationwide. While this week’s InsiderAdvantage results are a clear outlier, they may be a sign of things to come for Trump, as the polling agency surveyed voters following Trump’s summit with Putin in Alaska.
“I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don’t have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong on the Russia/Ukraine MESS, that is Sleepy Joe Biden’s war, not mine,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday. “I’m only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further. It would have NEVER happened if I was President.”
Even before the summit, Trump was already faring better in the polls than his two most recent predecessors in their second terms. On August 11, Trump’s RCP average approval rating was 45.9 percent. On that same date in his second term, Barack Obama’s RCP average was 43.9 percent, while George W. Bush clocked in at 43.5 percent.
Biden fared somewhat better on August 11, 2021, with a net-positive 50.1 percent to 45.6 percent rating in the RCP average. But just a few weeks later, following the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, his approval rating began to crater and never recovered. As inflation gripped the nation, he finally bottomed out at 37 percent in June 2022. When he left office earlier this year, his approval rating stood at just 39 percent.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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