Many of Donald Trump's top appointments are unpopular, a recent YouGov poll finds. More Americans strongly or somewhat disapprove than approve of 15 out of the 16 appointees in the survey. Overall, net approval of the people Donald Trump has appointed to be a part of his administration is -12, meaning the share of Americans who strongly or somewhat disapprove is 12 points higher than the share who approve.
Net approval of Donald Trump's handling of the presidency, according to the same survey, is -14. That's lower than all but one of the 16 appointees: Only U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has a net approval as low as Trump's: It's also -14. (Trump's net approval on the latest Economist/YouGov Poll was -18.) Linda McMahon (-13), Kristi Noem (-10), and JD Vance (-10) are the other Trump appointees with the lowest net approval.
Other appointees with more disapproval than approval are Sean Duffy (-1), Scott Bessent (-1), Marco Rubio (-2), Tulsi Gabbard (-6), John Ratcliffe (-6), Doug Burgum (-6), Pete Hegseth (-7), Stephen Miller (-7), Howard Lutnick (-7), Kash Patel (-8), and Pam Bondi (-9).
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is the only appointee polled whose job handling more Americans approve than disapprove (+8)..
Many Americans say they don't have opinions of the job performance of certain Trump appointees and administration members. More than one-third say they are not sure about each of Burgum, Lutnick, Duffy, Ratcliffe, Bessent, and Powell. After Trump, Vance and Kennedy are the political figures in the poll about whom the greatest shares of Americans have opinions.
Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to approve of the jobs being done by nearly all members of Trump's administration. The one exception is Powell, who receives positive net approval from both Democrats (+7) and Republicans (+26).
View the full results among U.S. adult citizens below:
— Carl Bialik contributed to this article
See the results for this YouGov poll
Methodology: This article includes results from an online survey conducted September 12 - 15, 2025 among 1,103 U.S. adult citizens. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of adult U.S. citizens. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2024 presidential vote, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. 2024 presidential vote, at time of weighting, was estimated to be 48% Harris and 50% Trump. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondent’s most recent answer given around November 8, 2024, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (31% Democratic, 32% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately 4%.
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