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LEE CARTER: Trump's approval ratings reveal what legacy media refuses to see

LEE CARTER: Trump's approval ratings reveal what legacy media refuses to see

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026 10:24:58 AM UTC

President Donald Trump's low approval ratings one year in don't signal failure, but delivery on campaign promises, creating unsettling stability without consensus in divided America.

Lee Hartley Carter is president of Maslansky + Partners, a language strategist, researcher and author of "Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter" (TarcherPerigee, September 3, 2019). Follow her on X on @lh_carter.

Approval in the low 40s. Disapproval in the mid-50s. The verdict, according to the polling-industrial complex, is clear.

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