Americans were similarly likely to describe both Biden and Trump as "poor" or "terrible" — about half said this characterized each president's time in office — but about 3 in 10 said Biden was "average," while less than 2 in 10 said this about Trump.
As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump's first term or Barack Obama's second, a new poll finds.
Not a sweet goodbye: Biden is less popular leaving office than Trump and Obama were The outgoing president’s approval ratings are comparable to Richard Nixon, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal.
Biden's standing is also much lower than the last outgoing Democratic president, Obama, who left office with about half of Americans describing his tenure as "good" or "great," according to another AP-NORC poll.
About one-third described Trump as "good" or "great" on the eve of the Republican's departure from the White House in 2021, according to AP-NORC polling, including about 2 in 10 who said he was "great" — even after he helped sparked a deadly insurrection that saw a mob of his supporters overrun the U.S. Capitol.
