He's up compared to his previous even crappier numbers. While his most recent numbers have been improving, he's got a long way to go. He's still underwater by an average of 9%, if we take only the most recent numbers put up by each distinct pollster:
| Poll | Date | Sample |
Approve
|
Disapprove
|
Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 4/25 - 5/16 | -- | 43.4 | 52.3 | -8.9 |
| Rasmussen Reports | 5/14 - 5/16 | 1500 LV | 49 | 50 | -1 |
| Economist/YouGov | 5/13 - 5/15 | 1231 RV | 44 | 52 | -8 |
| Reuters/Ipsos | 5/11 - 5/15 | 1290 RV | 46 | 53 | -7 |
| Gallup | 5/7 - 5/13 | 1500 A | 43 | 52 | -9 |
| CBS News | 5/3 - 5/6 | 1101 A | 40 | 55 | -15 |
| CNN | 5/2 - 5/5 | 901 RV | 44 | 51 | -7 |
| IBD/TIPP | 4/26 - 5/4 | 900 A | 38 | 56 | -18 |
| Pew Research | 4/25 - 5/1 | 1221 RV | 42 | 54 | -12 |
| Monmouth | 4/26 - 4/30 | 681 RV | 45 | 48 | -3 |
The IBD poll number is particularly worrisome. Investors Business Daily is as rabidly pro-Trump as you can get, and its poll number is -18. In the run-up to 2016, IBD showed Trump with a 4% popular vote lead, when he in fact lost the popular vote.